Westminster: the political core, and the tightest streets to move in.

Westminster carries the government quarter, St James’s and Victoria in a single dense district — tourists, security cordons, official convoys and event closures all sharing the same few streets. Access is tight and often changes at short notice, and the profile of the people who live and work here is frequently national. It is a place where motorcade traffic is ordinary and where knowing which street is open this hour is the whole of the job.

Private residences in Westminster are more often mansion blocks and portered buildings than gated houses. The porter and the building’s systems cover the common parts; the household’s routines, its deliveries and how many people know the flat number are what a residential security survey looks at — and what a concierge building does and does not cover is set out in a guide of its own.

So our Westminster work is close-protection-and-driving led, built around access and timing: drivers who read the cordons and the convoy patterns and know the workable approach when the obvious one is closed, and officers comfortable in the formal settings — clubs, institutions, official events — that define the district. Residential cover in St James’s leans on liaison with building and estate security.