Securing Peace Of Mind And A Safer Future

 

“As a family we have never felt safer” 

Entrepreneur and HNW family 

SERVICE: RESIDENTIAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT & GUIDANCE 

SECTOR:  PRIVATE 

The Objective

Our client had recently purchased a large, rural home and wanted to investigate the safety and security it afforded their family. We were engaged to conduct a risk assessment of the property and use our expertise to highlight vulnerabilities and make recommendations for a security solution that met the client’s needs.  

Our Solution

BluSkills undertook a multi-faceted approach to assessing the situation and devising suitable recommendations. 

 Direction of threat 

We started with a personal risk assessment, enabling us to fully understand all factors involved. This vital first step allowed us to ensure that our review was conducted with the correct actors in mind. For example, state sponsored actors would be perceived to have a higher capability, support and skills set than a burglar. 

 Lifestyle assessment 

Understanding how this family wanted to live life played an important role in creating the solution. Our assessment showed that the client was a process- and rule-driven individual,  and the family liked their own independence. We introduced good human procedures and security protocol, safe in the knowledge that these would be understood and adhered to.  

 Site assessment 

We visited the site and inspected it thoroughly over two days, conducting detailed exterior and interior investigations. This inspection revealed a number of areas for improvement – a mix of low cost procedural developments, physical measures and technical enhancements. 

 A layered approach 

Using our hallmark ‘layered’ approach to security, we created redundancy and eliminated a single point of failure for the security solution. We did this from the outer layers of the grounds through to the inside of the property. Layered security measures mean that if someone breaks through, or breaches, an outer security ‘layer’, our client will have time to react. 

 Policy agreement 

We also agreed and implemented policies and procedures for the site – a key part of the process. 

 Our findings 

BluSKills produced a detailed report for the client that they could refer back to at any time. This report provided the client with the aims and objectives of the remedial works along with specifications to help the contractors and specialists complete the work to the required standards and effort.  

The report also acted as a tracking tool as recommendations are implemented over time. In this case, we worked closely with the client to gauge the effectiveness of the improvements as they were introduced, fine-tuning the scheme where necessary. 

Outcomes & Benefits 

• The impact of the security scheme is that the family are safe – and feel safe – in their home, reassured by having good procedures in place 

• The recommendations in their detailed report allow the client to engage specific trades to achieve clearly-identified outcomes  

• Recommendations are prioritised to allow for budgeted changes 

• Security has been dramatically increased, putting the occupants in control of their security 

• Incidents and suspicious behaviours are recognised and dealt with proactively 

• The family are now perceived as a hard target with a high risk of failure for those looking to exploit their wealth