Derby: engineering money, quietly held.

Derby’s wealth is industrial and understated — built around world-class aerospace and rail engineering and the senior people who run it. The centre keeps a compact Cathedral Quarter and Pride Park beyond it; the money lives just north, in Duffield, Quarndon and Allestree, and out toward the Derbyshire Dales. It is a city where the significant people are locally known and rarely flamboyant, which shapes the kind of protection that fits.

So our Derby work is largely residential and vehicular: protective surveys for the village and Dales-edge houses, close protection and secure driving for executives whose diaries run against the M1 and the East Midlands, and discreet cover for corporate occasions. The register is quiet — in a city this size, a visible guard is the fastest way to make a private person conspicuous.