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Daniel Smith Advisory. Security, Risk & Preparedness.

Daniel Smith Advisory

Practical security, travel risk and protective security advice built on 27+ years of hands-on experience.

Independent security consultancy helping organisations protect their people, wherever they work or travel.

Evidence

The client had security in place and no evidence it was working. I surveyed the arrangements against the risks the business carries and issued a findings and recommendations report: what was sound, what was exposed, and what each fix was worth. A small number of changes were worth making. The rest stayed as it was.

Preparedness

Preparation does most of the work.

Before anyone travels, the destination is assessed and the route planned. A threshold is set for changing or stopping the journey. The traveller knows what to do if it goes wrong.

Day to day it works the same way, at an office, a site, an event or a home. Each engagement leaves the plan, the training and the written procedure with your own people, in a form they can run without me.

First light on a mountain range

How it is built

  • Planning. destinations, routes and sites assessed before a movement or an operation is approved
  • Training. the people who have to carry the plan trained on it, assessed and recorded
  • Procedure. written thresholds and escalation, so a decision does not wait on one person being reachable

Who this is for

Organisations that:

  • Carry a duty of care for staff travelling or working abroad
  • Protect executives, principals or high-profile individuals
  • Operate in unfamiliar or higher-risk markets
  • Already pay for security and want an independent view of it
  • Have the policy, but nobody who owns the decision
  • Need an assessment they can act on

Operational footprint

Built on 27 years of military, corporate, humanitarian and executive security experience.

United Kingdom

Practice base

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Military service

Americas

Military service

Americas

Military service

UK & Europe

Delivered work

UK & Europe

Military service

UK & Europe

Delivered work

Caribbean

Delivered work

Africa

Delivered work

Middle East

Humanitarian response

Middle East

Military service

Asia-Pacific

Military service

Middle East

Delivered work

Asia-Pacific

Delivered work

Asia-Pacific

Delivered work

Asia-Pacific

Delivered work

30Countries
4Continents
27+Years experience
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Footprint

Where the work has been delivered.

Each point represents experience working across different cultures and environments. It has built an understanding of local context, how people communicate, build trust and make decisions differently, and why an approach that works in one place, with one group of people, may not work somewhere else.

A fleet of executive vehicles staged before a movement
A team working a waterside lift during a maritime relief operation
A team training on a marked circuit in the rain
Protective movement on foot through a civil unrest environment
A principal moving past a press line under protective escort

How it starts

How an engagement starts.

    01

    Scope call

    Fifteen minutes to understand the movement, the individual or the gap in the arrangements. No charge.

    02

    Fixed proposal

    Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed turnaround, in writing before anything starts.

    03

    Delivery

    The work, to the method, on the date agreed.

    04

    Decision brief

    A clear, governed output you can act on or hand straight to the board.

Next step

Talk it through first.

Describe the situation and I will tell you what I would do about it, or whether you need me at all. Fifteen minutes.