You will never see the day it worked.
Intelligence-Led Executive Protection
Protection that is working looks like an ordinary Tuesday. Arcangel Protection Services runs Executive Protection Programmes so that the incident is the one thing that does not happen.
Est. 2012
1,500+ operations
ISO 18788 aligned
30+ countries
99.9% incident-free
HOW A PROGRAMME WORKS
One framework. One command structure. One accountability.
A programme begins with the risk, not the roster. We assess how the principal is exposed across home, work, movement, digital life and the people around them, and the protection follows from what that finds. Intelligence, physical protection, CyberDefense, reputation and secure movement are run by one team under one accountability, so nothing is left in a separate room. Every capability deployed, or deliberately withheld, has a documented reason you can read.
Protection for the person, the movement and everything around them.
CyberDefense
The digital side of the same picture. How a principal, a family or an organisation can be found, watched and reached online, and what closes that down.
Training
For clients who want their own people better prepared. Courses built from real protective work, run in Johannesburg or on the client’s own ground.
Protective Intelligence
Knowing what you are facing before it reaches you. Threat and exposure monitoring, protective intelligence on the people and places around a principal, and a record a board can read.
Executive Protection
The programme built around a person. Close protection, advance work and a 24-hour control room, configured from how that person is actually exposed rather than from a standard package.
Secure Journey Management
Getting people there and back without the journey becoming the risk. Routes, vehicles and timings planned and run as one movement, across town or across borders.
Advisory
For clients who want to make the decision themselves. Independent judgement on where exposure sits and what response is proportionate, with no obligation to buy what follows.
Worldwide Operations
Arcangel was established in Johannesburg in 2012. Since then we have run 1,500+ protective operations in 30+ countries, 99.9% incident-free, including a continuous continental engagement since 2014.
PSiRA Reg. No. 2160891. ISO 18788 aligned. B-BBEE compliant.
About Arcangel
Arcangel designs and runs intelligence-led Executive Protection Programmes for corporate leadership, private clients and family offices, NGOs and humanitarian organisations, and government and diplomatic principals.
The programme is the product. Close protection is one capability inside it, alongside Secure Journey Management, Protective Intelligence and CyberDefense, run under one framework, one command structure and one accountability. Every capability deployed, or deliberately withheld, has a documented reason you can read.
Trusted by Clients Worldwide
“It is on rare occasion that organisations display conduct of supreme
professionalism in every facet of their service delivery, which was very much the nature of our experience with Arcangel Protection Services.
Professionalism of this extent is particularly challenging to attain when engaged in operations of variable and ever-changing logistical dynamics and, to this end, I wholeheartedly congratulate you.”
Andrew, Business development executive - Global Corporation“You and your team were the epitome of professionalism and a top-notch executive protection detail”
John, Head of security - Fortune 100 company“The guys were simply fantastic—professional, thoughtful, engaging, and always present when needed.
While ******** is a very safe and easy destination to navigate, having your team there provided an extra level of comfort and confidence for both our guests and my team. I'm so glad we ultimately decided to bring them along. They delivered exceptional service and were a tremendous asset throughout the program.”
Koleen, Director - Global Financial Institution