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Family & Executive Protection

Layers of protection.

Close personal protection for executives, individuals and families while in their homes or offices, in public settings and while travelling

We protect high-profile and at-risk corporate executives, UHNW individuals and their families. Their security needs are often complex and multifaceted, spanning residences, family offices and corporate environments, and while attending public events or travelling, locally and globally.

Layers of protection – including security systems, personal duress alerts and field operations – are all coordinated through SPG’s 24/7 Global Security Operations Centre.

Protection capabilities

Our expertise across all facets of security helps close vulnerability gaps, protecting clients and their assets wherever they may be.

Intelligence-led personal and family protection
Our approach is led by intelligence – from risk assessments to security system reviews and advance planning for travel routes, at home or abroad.
Nuanced balance of lifestyle and security
The role of protection is to enhance our clients’ lifestyle, not to curtail it. This is central to all aspects of security – from the technology systems we design to the discretion of our operatives in the field.
Personal and professional online threat monitoring
For individuals and organisations concerned about online exposure, our analysts monitor activity – from social platforms to unmoderated forums – identifying credible threats that may pose a risk to personal safety, family security, or business interests.
Alignment of personal and corporate security
Our background in executive protection, and safeguarding some of the most at-risk community leaders, helps navigate the interaction between corporate and personal security.
Single, central point of contact and coordination
A single phone call from anywhere, globally, connects clients to our 24/7 Global Security Operations Centre (GSOC) – the central hub for real-time threat assessment, security systems monitoring, emergency coordination and crisis response.
Personal Duress
Immediate connection to SPG’s 24/7 operations centre, anywhere globally
Security at Home or Office
Monitored alarms, CCTV and intrusion alerts, supported by SPG Field Operatives and Residential Security Teams (RST)
Protection in Public
Close personal protection (CPP), secure drivers (SD), and 24/7 SPG Global Operations Centre (GSOC)
Local & Global Travel
Intelligence-led risk assessments, advance route-planning, emergency and extraction protocols, accompanying CPP

An added intelligence layer to our operations

Because SPG Field Operatives are so closely integrated into our 24/7 Global Security Operations Centre, their heightened alertness and protective vigilance provide an added Intelligence layer to our operations.

For many, their skills have been honed through years of experience in military forces, special operations and intelligence units, counterterrorism, policing and dignitary protection.

SQ training for staff and family members

Like the well-known measures, IQ and EQ, we define SQ as a measure of ‘security intelligence’ (or instinct).

Measure of security intelligence

On request, we offer SQ Training for our clients’ residential or home office staff, aviation and maritime crews, as well as our clients’ own family members. Training can cover areas such as situational awareness in public spaces or defensive driving skills.

SQ training is not intended to add a security responsibility to people’s roles – it simply helps raise their awareness: noticing suspicious activities, knowing what to avoid, and how to respond when things ‘just don’t feel right’.

Protection with discretion

At SPG, we understand the critical need for privacy and discretion – supporting protection without calling attention to it, unless intended.

To discuss how Family & Executive Protection can be configured around your risk profile, routines and privacy requirements — across residences, events and travel — please contact SPG for a confidential conversation.

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Security risk reviews and assessments
SPG Secure personal duress app
Security systems and automation
Physical security solutions
Assessment of online exposure
Proactive online threat monitoring
24/7 GSOC monitoring

Crisis & Emergency Response

At SPG, planning and responding to crises involves more than alarms and call centres. It is a collaborative undertaking that draws on expertise across many facets of security.

Intelligence plays a leading role in assessing the threat landscape and providing live, real-time updates as incidents unfold; SPG’s 24/7 Global Operations Centre is the hub for client contact and response coordination; and our highly trained field operatives, who are often first on the scene.

Properties & Assets

The protection of property and valuable assets extends beyond alarm systems and security guards. Our interconnected world – and the rapid rise of AI – has created sophisticated deepfakes and social engineering exploits, opening new pathways of vulnerability.

Countering these emerging threats requires a holistic understanding of the interplay between different facets of security – led by intelligence and informed by collaborative security perspectives and capabilities.

Cyber & Technology Systems

Security threats have become more than just a series of isolated incidents. Online forums and the dark web, interconnected devices and social engineering, cryptocurrency crime and geopolitical currents – all spill over into a constantly evolving threat landscape.

For our clients, protecting personal safety, properties and assets requires a more nuanced understanding of this complexity – led by intelligence and informed by collaborative security perspectives and capabilities.

Family & Executive Protection

Family & Executive Protection does not operate in isolation. The realities of modern risk sit across personal routine, public and corporate profile, online exposure, properties, travel and organisational obligations.

At SPG, we recognise the inter-connectedness of all these aspects of security and how they work together to protect families and executives.

24/7 Global Security Operations Centre

Designed to integrate across the SPG ecosystem, GSOC functions as the central command and communications hub, enabling a unified and holistic view of security.

Field Operations

Field Operations is most effective when it is integrated — supported by intelligence, aligned with property and technology systems, and coordinated through a single command and communications hub.

At SPG, operatives on the ground are part of a wider capability set that closes gaps between prevention, response and resolution.

Intelligence

At SPG, everything we do is led by intelligence. Rather than existing as a separate discipline, it is the connecting tissue that informs all facets of our work with clients.

It is not a static entity - it evolves constantly, aligned with today's threat landscape and technology and anticipating tomorrow's needs before they arrive.

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Connecting the dots

Family & Executive Protection does not operate in isolation. The realities of modern risk sit across personal routine, public and corporate profile, online exposure, properties, travel and organisational obligations.

At SPG, we recognise the inter-connectedness of all these aspects of security and how they work together to protect families and executives.