Every protection plan we run starts as paperwork, not manpower. Before a single close protection officer is booked or a vehicle is arranged, our risk assessment and travel advance service does the groundwork in Morocco: understanding who the client is, where they're going, and what could realistically go wrong along the way. It's the step that turns generic security cover into a plan built around one specific itinerary, and it's the foundation every close protection and executive transport detail we run is built on.
What a Pre-Arrival Assessment Covers
We start with the client's own threat profile: public visibility, any known specific concerns, past incidents, and the nature of the visit — business, leisure, an official function, or a mix. That profile shapes everything that follows. From there, our teams on the ground run venue and route surveys for every location on the itinerary: hotels, offices, private residences, restaurants, event venues, and the roads connecting them. We also draw on local intelligence gathering — current security conditions, any relevant civil or political activity, and area-specific concerns that wouldn't show up in a generic travel advisory.
Advance Team Work, Completed Before You Land
For higher-profile visits, we deploy an advance team ahead of the principal's arrival. That team walks the actual venues, times the actual routes, confirms hotel security arrangements directly with the property, and identifies the specific vulnerabilities a document review alone would miss — a service entrance that isn't locked, a lobby with no discreet secondary exit, a route with a single unavoidable choke point. This is the same groundwork that underpins corporate and delegation security for board-level visits and official missions, where multiple principals and a fixed public schedule leave little room for last-minute changes.
- Client threat profile built from public visibility, history and trip purpose
- On-the-ground venue and route surveys for every stop on the itinerary
- Current local intelligence on security conditions in the areas you'll visit
- A written security plan delivered before your team arrives in Morocco
- Continuous risk monitoring for the full duration of the stay
The Deliverable: A Written Security Plan
The assessment doesn't stay in our operations team's heads. It's delivered to the client, or the client's office, as a written security plan: the threat summary, the surveyed routes and venues, the recommended protection posture, and the contingency options if the itinerary changes. This document is what a royal delegation or diplomatic mission's protocol office typically wants to review before sign-off, and it's what lets our own protection teams brief in minutes rather than hours once they're on the ground.
Risk Doesn't Stop at Arrival
Conditions change over the course of a stay — a road closure, a public event announced after arrival, a change to the client's own schedule. Our operations desk keeps monitoring the situation for the duration of the visit and updates the plan in real time rather than treating the initial assessment as a one-off document. For multi-city itineraries, this includes re-running the assessment process at each new stop before the principal arrives there.