If the whole country knows where you are, it knows where you are not.
A published fixture list is a published absence list. For anyone whose diary is public, the empty house is the predictable part — and predictability is the only thing a burglar actually needs.
The windows that matter
This service exists for the hours your absence is a matter of public record:
- Away fixtures and international duty — published months ahead, to the kick-off minute
- Tours, filming blocks and residencies where the location is public and the dates are fixed
- Award ceremonies, premieres and gala evenings that are photographed as they happen
- Family holidays where the absence is visible on someone else's social media, not yours
- Hospital stays, funerals and other private absences that become locally known
What the cover looks like
An SIA-licensed officer at the property for the agreed window — usually from a few hours before the absence becomes public until you are home. Not a patrol car passing hourly, and not a camera feed watched from a call centre in another county: someone physically there, who knows the layout, the neighbours, the legitimate callers and what the alarm actually does.
Where a family stays behind, the brief changes: the officer is there for them rather than the building, and the register shifts accordingly — present enough to matter, invisible enough that a child’s evening is unremarkable.
The part most people get wrong
Lights on timers, a car left on the drive and a neighbour with a key are all fine, and all well understood by anyone who has watched a house for more than an evening. What actually changes the calculation is the presence of a person and the absence of a pattern — varied arrival times, no vehicle that signals “security”, and no announcement to anyone who does not need to know.
If your fixture list is public, assume it has been read. Planning around that is cheaper and calmer than reacting to it.
Booked around your calendar
Most clients set this up once against a season or a schedule and leave it to run: we take the fixture list, the tour dates or the filming block, and the cover is simply there for each window without a fresh conversation every time. A protective survey first usually reduces how many hours you need — which is generally the point.
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