Senior Close Protection Consultant
One of the most experienced protection commanders in the world.
- Robert has an unparalleled counter - violence and security background.
- He is one of the most experienced protection commanders in the world.
- He was second – in - command within the Metropolitan Police Special Branch and has served as a member of The Security Service (MI5) and as a senior government advisor.
- For over 15 years he held the UK national responsibility for the protection of public figures at threat. As well as commanding protection and investigation teams, he was a leading member of the UK Counter-Terrorist Government Crisis Response Committees (COBR). Today, as a subject-matter expert he continues to advise the government on protection policy.
- His in-depth knowledge of the activities of violent groups has been relevant to the design of safety strategies for the most prominent UK and foreign public figures, their families, residences, events, and across the built environment.
- He now applies this experience to support corporate figureheads and business executives who confront threat.
- Due to his considerable breadth and depth of knowledge, his safety strategies offer maximum resilience to clients with minimum intrusion.
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- Bob’s personal testimonials include Prime Ministers and global industrialists.
- He has secured over 2000 Heads of Government, Heads of State and Secretaries of State, and has delivered over 400 principals safely into high-risk environments and war zones.
- Moreover, he has thwarted 3 assassination plots on UK public figures, including 2 by state-sponsored actors.
- He was appointed Olympic Games Security Director on behalf of the UK three times.