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Daniel Smith Advisory. Security, Risk & Preparedness.

Is Your Protection Programme Doing Its Job?

An independent review of how your existing protective arrangements work in practice.

Executive Protection & Protective Security

Executive Protection Programme Review

Is the protection you pay for actually protecting anyone?

Who it is for

Who this is for.

Principals, family offices and corporates already funding a protection team who want an honest read on it.

What it solves

An independent review of an existing protection programme: how the team operates, how protection is planned and delivered, the procedures in place, and whether they reflect the actual threat. The review identifies what is working, where the gaps are, and what needs to change.

Turnaround

Two to four weeks, by scope

What you receive

  • Programme structure, mandate and decision rights reviewed
  • Team selection, training and performance standards assessed
  • Operating procedures and drills tested against realistic scenarios
  • Protective intelligence and advance work capability graded
  • Security driver standards and vehicle procedures reviewed
  • Prioritised findings, each with effort, cost and risk reduction stated

Why Daniel

Experience behind the advice.

Executive and close protection experience at principal level, including executive and CEO office support for the leadership of a global business, and protective operations through sustained civil unrest.

The advice is independent. Daniel Smith Advisory does not supply guarding, install systems or take commission on anything recommended, so a recommendation only appears if it is needed.

Delivered work

Corporate / international

Global CEO and senior leadership protection

Consistent protective coverage sustained across a sustained travel and events programme.

  • 25+ trips
  • 30+ events
  • 95%+ on-time starts
  • Zero principal harm

Private client / Hong Kong and international

Family protection during civil unrest

Safe family movement and continuity maintained throughout a volatile operating environment.

  • 14-person team
  • 9 protection officers
  • 5 drivers
  • Continuity maintained

Client and principal identities are withheld. These are genuine assignments and documented outcomes, and operational detail is deliberately limited.

Next step

Talk it through first.

Fifteen minutes to establish the exposure and what the work would involve. You will leave the call with a fixed scope and price, or with the reasons the work is not warranted yet.