Philip Grindell

I have spent my working life learning how people come to harm — three decades in UK law enforcement, much of it at Scotland Yard, and now advising prominent families. The most valuable lesson from all of it is a hopeful one: serious harm rarely arrives unannounced, and it is far easier to prevent than to repair. That is why my work starts earlier than most people expect. Not with a threat, but with exposure. A surprising amount can be found about a prominent family in minutes — a home address, a child's school, travel patterns, business connections — with no specialist knowledge and nothing unlawful. Just someone looking. I help prominent individuals, family offices and their advisers protect their privacy and feel safer. The principle is simple: be hard to find, and even harder to target. Much of my retained work is preventative. We find the personal information available about a family, remove what can be removed, and keep watch on what remains. We put quiet, sensible arrangements in place — a verified way to confirm an unusual instruction, an agreed understanding of who decides in a difficult moment — so a family is steady long before anything tests it. And when something does surface — someone who has been around too long, communications that started warmly and now feel insistent, a former employee who will not accept that a relationship has ended — my role is judgement. I assess behaviour and intent so clients can make proportionate decisions grounded in evidence rather than fear or assumption. I do not provide guarding. I do not create unnecessary alarm. I do not escalate without evidence. What clients get is clear judgement they can act on. Following the murder of Jo Cox MP, I set up and led The Parliamentary Liaison and Investigation Team — the unit that went on to identify and stop a planned terrorist attack against another MP. I was trained by Dr Robert Fein, co-author of the US Secret Service study into targeted violence, and I am the author of 'Personal Threat Management: The practitioner's guide to keeping clients safer' a Business Book Awards finalist. For the advisers who refer clients to us: we work around your existing structure, and your client remains your client. If you are managing something sensitive, or simply want to know how exposed a family is today, contact me directly. All conversations are confidential. 📩 [contact omitted]

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