Personal Escort and Unarmed Close Protection

Accompany, observe, prevent

The escort service answers a precise need: not being alone in the moments and places where you feel exposed. The walk home after a late closing, a difficult appointment, a trip to an unfamiliar city, attending an event where you are recognisable.

The logic is not intervention but prevention: a trained officer who reads the environment, recognises anomalies early, chooses safer routes and timings and, by presence alone, makes unwanted approach unlikely. In the vast majority of cases the outcome of the service is that nothing happens — which is precisely the objective.

When it is requested

• People exposed to risk who want company on daily journeys or at sensitive appointments.

• High-profile guests, speakers and public figures at events, conferences and launches.

• Transfers and journeys between airport, hotel, company premises and venue.

• Short but delicate moments: a handover, a night-time return, a meeting in a potentially confrontational setting.

What it involves — and what it does not

We need to be explicit, because there is a great deal of confusion on this subject. Ours is an unarmed private security service: it is not equivalent to armed protection, it is not a close-protection detail in the state sense and it confers no public authority on the officer.

Officers carry no weapons, make no arrests, do not identify people, do not investigate and do not replace the police. What they do is hold the space around the person, keep a useful distance, observe, prevent unwanted approach, escort and — where the situation requires it — move away from the critical point and call 112.

If the assessment shows that the level of exposure calls for measures beyond what we can provide, we say so openly and point to the correct route, starting with the competent authorities.

How the service is set up

The first step is a confidential conversation in which we reconstruct the context: what happened, how often, in which places, and whether reports or complaints have already been filed. From there we define the service profile — number of officers, hours, meeting points, routes, conduct in case of contact — and put it in writing.

The service can be occasional or continuous, in civilian or formal dress depending on the setting. Discretion is an operational requirement: a visible escort draws attention and, in many cases, worsens the very situation it should resolve.

Working alongside the competent authorities

Where a situation has already been reported to the authorities, our role fits into that process: we keep a precise log of observed incidents — date, time, place, description — which the person concerned can use to support complaints or applications. If an incident occurs, absolute priority goes to the person’s safety and to calling the police immediately.

For a confidential assessment of your situation, let us talk in private. If the context involves harassment, conflict or persistent unwanted attention, see also support in situations of risk; for guests at events and conferences the reference service is event security.