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 by design — in a city this size, a visible guard is the fastest way to make a private person conspicuous.