The Cotswolds
Trained people on site at homes and businesses across the Cotswolds, from village cottages to country manors and working premises.
Our standards
Who you are trusting
- Our operatives86.5%are former public service personnel, whether they be military, police or other public services.
- Many fromTier 1 unitsand other specialist roles across the services.
- Vetted toBS7858+Industry standard vetting plus more frequent DBS checks and social media reviews.
- Every operativeSIA licensedFully insured and at the top of their game.
Limestone country
Honey stone and open wold
The Cotswolds is the largest National Landscape in the country: rolling hills rising to a dramatic western escarpment, villages built from Jurassic limestone in warm honeyed tones, and thousands of kilometres of dry stone walls. Its best known addresses include Chipping Campden, Broadway, Stow-on-the-Wold, Burford, Tetbury and the Slaughters, where listed manor houses, period town houses and stone cottages sit alongside farms and private country estates. Our Residential Security Teams provide trained, discreet operatives on site, day and overnight, so that a family home or a weekend house is looked after with the same quiet care whether the owners are in residence or away.
The area reaches across several counties, and many of its finest houses are listed. A manor may bring a walled garden, a coach house, farm buildings and acres of grazing behind its walls, so the plan has to reach well past the front door.
Each Cotswold deployment is planned and overseen by our operations team in Maidstone, former specialist police officers who answer the operations line through the night as well as the day.
Old stone houses
Listed manors and weekend homes
Plenty of Cotswold houses stand empty for part of the week. A house that is quiet from Monday to Friday gains a great deal from a regular presence, and its owners can arrive for the weekend knowing it has been looked after.
Listed buildings bring their own considerations. Changes to the fabric may need consent, so we lean on people and patrols first and talk through any equipment carefully before it is fitted.
Cotswold property types
- Listed manors behind high walls
- Period houses facing the market square
- Weekend cottages
- Working farms and private estates
Open wold
Protecting the wider holding
With dry stone walls in place of fences and long views across open country, a rural Cotswold property can be approached from many directions. Patrols cover house, barns and pasture alike, making theft, break-ins, trespass and poaching far harder.
Owners who are well known can count on particular care for their privacy. We decide with you how the gate, the drive and visitors are handled, and fit the plan to the rhythm of the household.
Available in the Cotswolds
- Thermal aerial checks over pasture and copse
- Thermal scanning on foot after dusk
- Vehicles for mud or water, sourced on contract
- Remote eyes on your alarm and CCTV
- Kit fitted by partners the next day
In the village
Quiet, capable people
In a Cotswold village, people notice strangers. Our operatives can wear country clothes and keep a low profile, or appear in uniform when a visible presence is what you want.
Where a female officer is the better fit, we can provide one, and each operative is selected to sit easily with the way your family lives.
Weekdays, weekends, all year
Cover by day, by night or both, for one weekend or as a standing arrangement.
Quick to mobilise
For urgent requests a team can often be dispatched inside sixty minutes, and advance notice always helps.
Bigger when it matters
More people can be brought in within a day, to any part of the country.
In residence or away
With the family gone, the house keeps its cover; should you want protection on the journey, ask for one of our close protection officers.
Ahead of any quote
We visit before we quote
We visit your Cotswold property and carry out a security assessment without charge, looking at the house, the outbuildings and the boundaries, and at how the home is used during the week and at weekends.
Our recommendation is proportionate. We will not propose more operatives than the house needs, and you see the staffing and the fees before you commit to anything.
Checks and balances
Credentials for Cotswold clients
On the SIA register
Each operative we send to a Cotswold home holds a licence from the Security Industry Authority.
Background checked
BS7858 is our baseline. Social media reviews and more regular DBS renewals sit on top of it.
Care in an emergency
Every one can give medical aid, not just protection.
Insured to £10m
BPS is insured for £10m public liability, and a further £5m policy covers our thermal drone flying.
Run by ex-police specialists
Specialist police careers came first for the people who now run our operations. We keep close relationships with police forces nationally, and several have sent officers on our behavioural detection courses.
Bodies and pledges
Individually, the Security Institute, BRITMA and IPSA all have our directors as members. As a business, BPS has pledged support to the Armed Forces Covenant and holds a corporate place in the British Bodyguard Association.
Who watches the house Monday to Friday?
That can be us. Many Cotswold owners want the house covered while they are elsewhere, then again while they are in residence. We agree the pattern with you, and it can change through the year.
Is the whole of the Cotswolds covered?
Yes. We deploy teams throughout the area, from Chipping Campden and Broadway in the north to Tetbury in the south.
Will security equipment affect a listed building?
We start with people rather than hardware. Where cameras or alarms would help, we discuss placement with you first, so you can check what consents the building may need.
Can operatives keep a low profile in the village?
Yes. They can dress as anyone else would in the country, and we choose people who will sit comfortably in a small community.
Why do quotes vary between properties?
Because no two holdings are alike. Land, barns, gateways and the hours of cover each push the numbers up or down. Underneath every figure we give sits a formal look at threat, risk and harm, plus our own survey on site.
After a break-in, what is the first step?
Call us on the 24 hour operations phone without delay. Cover can be arranged quickly, and monitored equipment fitted within a day.
Elsewhere on the site
- All about protecting homesThe full service, for homes across Britain and beyond.
- An officer for the journeyClose protection for journeys to London, abroad or anywhere in between.
- The people in chargeMeet the people in charge and read what the company stands for.
- Contact the officeA short description of the house is all we need to reply.
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Who we are
Operations & training teams
Get in touch about a Cotswold house
Clients can reach our teams 24/7, 365 days a year, through our 24 hour operations phones. Every enquiry is handled with discretion. Alternatively, make a secure enquiry online.