Brighton and Hove: a seafront city with a public face.
Brighton lives outdoors and in view — the seafront, the Lanes, a festival and conference calendar that fills the city, and the Regency terraces of Brunswick and Kemptown where the money sits behind very public frontages. It is a place people come to be seen, which cuts both ways for anyone who would rather not be, and Gatwick is close enough that it functions as a London-adjacent base as much as a coastal one.
So our Brighton work pairs discreet close protection through a busy, festive centre with residential cover for the seafront terraces, where a grand public frontage and a quiet family life have to coexist. We handle conference-season movements and event cover, and drivers who know the seafront’s one-ways and the Gatwick corridor keep an arrival from becoming a scene.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of weekend the city produces: a principal moved through a festival crowd to a seafront terrace, noticed by no one who mattered.
Photo: Prince Regent's Royal Pavilion - 2001 by Dominic Alves · CC BY 2.0
Local context — the Brighton area
The robbery figure here reflects a dense, late-night seafront economy — the busiest public stretch of the city sits inside the radius. It is not a read on the residential terraces, where the work is discretion and the quiet management of a very visible address.
Local policing: the Regency Business neighbourhood team, Sussex Police. The team for a particular address is on police.uk, found by postcode, and 101 reaches the local force for anything that is not an emergency.
Crime figures: data.police.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Location point: © OpenStreetMap contributors.