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PRAESTANTIA

Residential security

Overall security architecture, residential protection and personal safety.

PRAESTANTIA designs security architecture to fit your residences, your movements, the people close to you and your private events. From the vulnerability assessment to residential and close protection, security drivers, and the security of private receptions—every arrangement is built around your circumstances and how you live.

  • Residential protection
  • Close protection
  • Security driver
  • Event security
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Continuity & response
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At night in the rain, a security driver, seen from behind, waits by a black car outside a residence.
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What we secure

Capabilities available

First, plainly, what we can secure. Then how those capabilities combine. You do not need the engineering vocabulary to ask for any of it.
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    Vulnerability assessment & analysis

  • 02

    Manned residential guarding

  • 03

    Close protection & personal security

  • 04

    Security driver

  • 05

    Private event security

  • 06

    Continuity & response

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    Discreet electronic security, where the assessment justifies it

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A distinction

Chauffeur or security driver

Chauffeur · mobility

For comfort, for discretion, and for the coordination of daily journeys or a car placed at your disposal.

Security driver

A specialist driver qualified in secure and defensive driving, working seamlessly with the close protection team and keeping sensitive transfers safe.

A residential security room: screens covering the gardens and the gates.
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Compose

Your security architecture

Select the capabilities relevant to your circumstances. The vulnerability assessment is the foundation of every arrangement without exception; the rest are built onto it according to your circumstances.

  • A full analysis of access, surroundings, habits, and where the estate and the people on it are exposed.

  • A discreet security presence, high-standard manned guarding, and the property's access points watched.

  • Discreet protection of people, close accompaniment, and specialist officers.

    • Individual close protection
    • Discreet accompaniment
    • Security driver
    • Protection of public figures, executives and families
    • Sensitive and airport transfers
    • Continuity from residence to vehicle to destination

  • Access control and monitored CCTV, deployed within the applicable regulatory limits.

  • Reinforced temporary arrangements for receptions and dinners.

  • Alert procedures, incident handling, and an operational team on call.

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Situations

What it looks like in practice

These are not testimonials, fixed offers or packages for sale. Each shows a situation, what it raises, and the architecture it calls for.

  • A private stay, with travel

    Paris / the Riviera

    The residence protected, close protection, a security driver, and transfers made secure.

  • A private reception

    Access controlled discreetly, guests checked in, a reinforced presence, and coordination with the household staff.

  • An unoccupied second home

    Vulnerability assessment, residential surveillance, and an agreed incident-response protocol.

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How they fit together

Security coordinated with the household

  • Household governance & private staff

    Protocols shared with the household staff and the butler.

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  • Private mobility & transport

    Security drivers and the House's own fleets working to the same plan.

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Operational simulation—fictitious demonstration data—residential and personal security, and security drivers

Services falling under regulated private security activity are performed under the sole responsibility of firms holding the applicable licences. PRAESTANTIA provides the design, the coordination and the operational oversight of the arrangement on behalf of the owner.

A conversation with a security architect

Describe the property, how you move, and where you are exposed. We carry out the assessment with you, then build the architecture that answers it.

Speak with the director of private security