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Cardiff: a capital that puts seventy-four thousand people beside its money.

Cardiff runs an unusual geography for a security detail: a national stadium in the middle of the retail centre, so a sold-out fixture empties tens of thousands of people directly past the shops and hotels. The business and cultural weight sits down at the Bay; the residential wealth sits north and west, in Llandaff, Pontcanna and Cyncoed. The city is compact enough that event days and ordinary days can feel like different places entirely.

So our Cardiff work leans on close protection and secure driving that respects the fixture calendar — movements timed against a city-centre stadium that can turn a five-minute route into a half-hour one — alongside Bay event cover and residential surveys across the north-western suburbs. Drivers who know which bridges and one-ways hold up on an international day are the difference between arriving and waiting.

An illustrative scenario

The kind of day an international produces: a principal delivered to a Bay dinner while seventy-four thousand people move the other way, none the wiser.

The clock tower of Cardiff Castle with the stadium roof behind it.

Photo: Clock Tower at Cardiff Castle by Sandy Gemmill · CC BY-SA 2.0

Local context — the Cardiff area

The panel’s vehicle-crime figure reflects a compact centre packed with event and retail parking, not the residential streets to the north-west where our work concentrates. The exposure worth planning for is the fixture-day crush, which is a routing problem rather than an ambient one.

Recorded crime · May 2026

33

Burglary

113

Vehicle crime

37

Robbery

19

Theft from person

405

Violence

These are anonymised, approximate map-point figures for roughly a one-mile radius — never a specific street, property or person — for the most recent month published. “Violence” is the Home Office “violence and sexual offences” category — a broad measure spanning harassment and common assault through to serious violence, much of it domestic or inside licensed premises. It is not a measure of targeted risk to a protected client.

Crime figures: data.police.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Location point: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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We cover these from the same team and the same vehicles, so a detail that starts in Cardiff can move between them without a handover.

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