Richmond: parkland, river, and quiet serious money.

Richmond is one of London’s greenest and wealthiest districts — the vast royal park, the Thames curving below Richmond Hill, and the large houses of Petersham and the riverside set behind walls and long gardens. It feels, and largely is, more country town than city: settled, private, expensive, with a resident profile that prefers its money unannounced. The park and the river shape everything, including the security picture.

So our Richmond work is overwhelmingly residential: protective surveys for the hillside and riverside houses, where an open aspect to the park or the water is the appeal and the exposure both, and discreet close protection and driving woven around family life. The register suits the place — measured, unhurried and, above all, not the sort of presence a private household on the hill would ever be seen with.