About SPS
Built by people who have worked the ground.
Specialized Protection Solutions was established to deliver protective services with the planning discipline, professionalism and discretion that clients are entitled to expect, and do not always receive.
Our position
Why SPS exists.
The industry is easy to enter. It is therefore easy to appoint a provider, and difficult to know what you have appointed until something goes wrong.
SPS was formed around the parts of the work clients cannot see and rarely ask about: assessment, advance work, briefing, record-keeping, registration.
Approach
How an engagement runs.
The sequence rarely changes, whether the requirement is a single airport transfer or a standing residential arrangement.
Understand
A confidential discussion about the client, their movements, their environment and what they are actually concerned about. Nothing is proposed at this stage.
Assess
A written assessment of exposure, likelihood and consequence, covering people, property, routine and travel as relevant.
Plan
A protective plan proportionate to the assessment: posture, personnel, movement, medical routing, communications and escalation.
Deliver & review
Deployment with defined reporting, followed by after-action review. Plans that are never reviewed become assumptions.
What clients get
What we hold ourselves to.
Discretion as a default
We do not publish client names, locations, movements or procedures. If a client's protective arrangement can be inferred from our marketing, we have failed them. That principle applies to this website.
People who are properly appointed
Registration, competency, vetting and conditions of service are administrative work whose consequences the client inherits. We treat it as part of the service, not overhead.
Plans in writing
Assessments, advance reports, journey plans and after-action reports are documented. A client should be able to hand our work to their board, insurer or family office without translation.
One point of accountability
When a requirement draws on more than one company in the group, the client still deals with one team and one point of contact.
Services
What we are appointed to do.
Close protection in South Africa
How SPS plans, staffs and oversees a protective detail, and what a client should verify before appointing anyone.
Read ServiceJourney management and secure travel
Route planning, off-site oversight, cross-border movement and the deliverables a client should receive.
Read ServiceSecurity risk assessment and consultancy
Independent assessment of what is exposed, what it would cost to close, and what to do first.
ReadNext step
Talk to us before you need us.
The most useful conversation with a protection provider happens well before anything is urgent. There is no obligation attached to it.