The start of a new year is a great time to review the security requirements for your current lifestyle.
Annual reviews can be vital to keeping your security arrangements fresh and relevant, especially if your life continuously evolves. With ever-developing needs and requirements, it’s important to modify and amend your security planning in line with optimum safeguarding solutions for you, your family, your assets, and your property.
Security reviews compile a strategic understanding of your unique profile, a tactical survey of your property, and examine the exterior factors in play, including staffing, infrastructure, cyber, and public relations.
We have seen first-hand the importance of applying proactive security measures for the effective protection of prominent individuals and encourage our clients to keep their reviews updated and amended as required.
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Enter this social season prepared and protected, with the addition of a personal security driver this winter, ensuring your safety and security are not at risk.
High-profile individuals attending a prominent public or private event, should not underestimate potential security risks. Unfortunately, threats of targeted attacks, theft, and protests are ever present, resulting in many concerns worth seeking additional security support for.
A good introduction to personal security is with a security driver. As security professionals foremost they are all skilled in a range of defensive driving techniques, drawn from Police or military background, first aid trained, and fully vetted. Providing secure route planning, advanced driving standards, counter surveillance protocols, and security awareness exclusive to you, giving security protection that can be continued into the event if required.
We offer a luxury service whilst you travel with us, carefully crafted to deliver the finest experience. Our drivers are specially selected for their capability to provide the level of protection required within an affluent society. They will make you feel relaxed, cared for, and able to enjoy the journey and event safely.
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Our exclusive team of personal protection and close protection operatives is setting the highest standard in protective security.
For our clients, we have a specially selected team on hand to radically reduce the fear of harm or unwanted attention they may receive. Deployed to provide a seamless security partition between the client and others who may seek to disrupt, harm, or endanger them.
Close protection requires the highest skillset, and we only recruit those who have impeccable careers within the security industry, as well as completing former occupations in the Police or military.
With flawless years of experience, comes the capability to operate at the highest level, for the highest in society. Our team provides the utmost discretion and quality management, able to operate within the most high-profile security environments and to the accepted social etiquette required.
The private protection services include:
- Close protection
- Residential Security Team
- Security Managers
- Security Drivers
- Protective Surveillance
- Specialist Dogs and Handlers
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The Securitatem Group is pleased to announce SJ Group International as our latest associated provider, specialising in kidnap, extortion, risk and crisis management, and response training within the Africa region.
SJ Group International provides high-quality security, negotiation, and crisis management expertise. Their team includes some most experienced military, police, and private sector experts. The organisation has completed numerous international deployments to respond to kidnaps and extortion threats, sometimes in hostile environments. Having previously represented the UK Government and intergovernmental agencies such as the EU and UN at international forums.
SJ Group was founded by Nick Shah, author of the UN Manual for Counter Kidnapping and Extortion and ex-Senior Officer of the National Crime Agency in the African region and was recognised with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2019.
By working in synergy with SJ Group International, we can provide additional physical and intellectual resources alongside our existing international infrastructure. Giving The Securitatem Group the ability to deploy an instantaneous kidnap and extortion response within the African region for our prominent clients.
Travel in safety and style to your next social event with our security travel service.
Whether you are hosting the occasion or attending a high-profile social event, let our security personnel and drivers escort you. Specially trained in situational awareness, counter surveillance, and secure planning, our team is always aware and prepared for any eventuality. At Securitatem Consultancy we pride ourselves on selecting professionals to secure our clients. All our personnel are from ex-military or police backgrounds, capable of achieving the highest standard of security and service.
We take your care to the next level as standard. Providing en route concierge packages for you, with a bespoke selection of snacks, confectionary, and amenities available. Whether you are craving a charcuterie platter for a long journey or a chilled bottle of the finest wine to celebrate with on your journey, we can arrange of this all for you.
Travel with us and be assured that every measure has been taken to ensure a safe, secure, and enjoyable journey.
Securitatem Consultancy is honoured to become a silver armed forces covenant member.
The prestigious accolade marks our long-standing and continuous commitment to supporting the armed forces, those who have and continue to serve, alongside their families.
As well as employing former military reservists and those who volunteer their time to the community, we advertise jobs directly to former armed forces personnel and their families and offer discounts on our services.
The covenant was introduced in 2000 and outlines the promise by the nation to ensure that the armed forces community is treated fairly. Giving them access to the same government and commercial services and products as any other citizen. Areas of support include education, family well-being, housing, careers, healthcare, financial assistance, and discount services.
Since the global pandemic in 2020, there has been a downward trend in how business travellers are now perceiving their safety when traveling the world with many now stating it is not safe at all.
A recent survey detailed by Strategic Risk, and commissioned by the World Travel Protection, carried out by Opinium, found the following conclusions:
- Only 20% of employees said they were happy to travel for work again.
- With 18% were concerned about their health and well-being whilst traveling now.
- 17% of business travellers feel less safe than they did before the pandemic.
With so much concern over traveling now, including concerns around geopolitical threats, one practical countermeasure for those businesses still requiring their employees to undertake essential travel would be to instruct a travel risk assessment. As well as providing experienced advice on mitigating risk, it also provides business travellers with reassurance.
Risk assessments will identify whether there is a need to implement travel security training for employees visiting unstable destinations.
Additionally, high-profile organisations may wish to consider enlisting specialist security staff to take professional care of their staff safety whilst traveling, either through a designated individual being on hand to manage their itinerary before and during the journey or through employing close protection to provide assurance against any threat of a volatile incidents.
Further consideration would be electronic options to keep locations visible 24/7 with a discrete tracking device, further increasing security. Electronic options can be either on personal items or vehicles, giving remote updates for the duration of the time away.
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A risk assessment carries a crucial role in event planning – designed to highlight potential eventualities and able to guide the implementation of responsive security measures.
A risk assessment can be a legal requirement, but it should not only be considered a check box process but instead a valuable and influential asset to your events planning process.
An event security risk assessment brings with it vital data and subsequent recommendations on the fundamental safety and security of your event. Through an in-depth assessment process, a certified security provider will identify potential risks or threats and propose appropriate measures to mitigate them.
In preparation of any event, bringing together complementary resources such as fire safety, event security, emergency services, and with them their respective risk assessments allow the formulation of a coordinated and cohesive incident response, bringing a dynamic response to event planning, allowing each specialist resource to complement the other, whilst carrying out its individual duties.
The Protect Duty legislation, also known as Martyn’s Law, named after Martyn Hett, who died in the Manchester Arena Attack in May 2017. Brings with it the potential for an increase in assessments, planning, counter-terrorism measures, training, and staffing within the event security industry. Event security planning processes such as risk assessments will become even more critical to the safety and security of future events.
We are pleased to be registered as an employer for the Forces Families Jobs website.
The website is the go-to place for training, employment, and volunteer roles for family members of currently serving UK military personnel. As registered employers, we will post upcoming roles directly to the families of armed forces personnel. Continuing our support for the armed force community and the armed force covenant.
Securitatem Consultancy remains committed to supporting those who have served past and present in the UK military and their families. Our sister company, Securitatem Installations, has an ongoing offer with the Defence Discount Service. Which provides 10% off new installations of intruder alarms, CCTV, and access control systems.
Most of our clients enjoy anonymity and very private lives away of the utmost privacy. However even the most innocent online presence can have the potential to be criminally targeted.
With online networks and communities continuing to grow. The appeal and draw of an online presence increases and once active can unwittingly draw the wrong kind of attention. This becomes a risk when there is a combination of; an individual in a prominent position, the exposure of their private life online, and the absence of online security awareness or security personnel. This opens the possibility of their offline life to attack from those who would seek to benefit from it.
Unfortunately, there have been several incidents over the last few years where prominent individuals have been targeted through opportunists online. These incidents have ranged from:
- Public figures targeting for their million dollar Jewellery whilst posting they are staying in a hotel.
- Footballers and their families’ homes are being targeted whilst they are playing away games and for their national teams.
- Musicians targeted at their homes when their address was shown when posting on Instagram
In these cases, and others, posting updates publicly online that feature high-value items, travel plans, the location of the home residence, and vulnerable family members has led to unwelcome repercussions. The internet offers a blanket of anonymity to those who look to expose and exploit opportunities for burglary, robbery, and even kidnapping.
Through the process of reviewing an individual client’s security, we may look to advise on limiting measures on their social network and online presence to establish the safest environment for them going forward. The measures we may advise they deploy include but are not limited to:
- Have private accounts or consider not having an account at all.
- Only posting information about your activities, locations, or events retrospectively.
- Turn off your location/geotags settings.
- Impress on your family and associates about the importance of privacy for their accounts too, associating with you may expose their accounts to be targeted.
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