Chiron currently has over 750 Security Industry Authority licensed male and female Close Protection Operative, based throughout the UK, on our books.
We always try to find someone close to any task to enable a quick reaction and provide local knowledge (it also saves on travel - we are trying to do our small bit to help save the environment!)
Chiron Resources (Operations) Ltd is an established Hostile Environment Support Agency, specializing in providing security solutions to solve your security problems, both in the UK and elsewhere in the world.
Chiron Resources specialises in media support by providing high quality security advisors and close protection operatives to journalists and camera crews working in all types of Hostile Environments.
Chiron also supports non-government (NGO) and Human Rights organisations, large and small businesses, private individuals (VIPs) and sporting teams.
There is always a danger when working in any Risk environment, but we at Chiron ensure that the threat is minimised to keep it at an acceptable level. In addition Chiron advisors can ‘add value’ to assist you achieve your mission. Our service will be tailored to your needs and delivered within a realistic time frame - professionally and discreetly.
Chiron also carries out combat forensic investigations, conducts security reviews and training and also provides specialists on all military subjects.
Chiron is a small, private consultancy firm founded in 2000 on the satisfaction and personal recommendation of clients. Our ethos is ‘loyalty, honesty, integrity and discretion’.





FOR PROGRAM RESEARCHERS:
Chiron has a large ‘network’ so if your program needs to interview military ‘experts’ we can put you in touch with the best person.
The Alan Johnston kidnap highlights that Journalism is now a very dangerous profession
- illustrated in the BBC Report below:
Journalists embedded with US Forces in Iraq require the correct Personal Protective
Equipment. This must now include 'EyePro' eye protection. You will be turned away
without the correct PPE. See Embed tips:
Learn more about the threats to journalists working in Hostile Environments by visiting the INSI web site.
Comments made by executives and producers of a major UK media organisation:
“...We use Chiron all the time and we trust them.”
“....I was utterly impressed at the speed and quality of the response.”
“Chiron was incredibly efficient, friendly and helpful - not something that you find
too often these days!!”
Chiron is a registered supplier of security to the BBC
Please Note: It is illegal to work in England, Scotland and Wales as a bodyguard
without a SIA Close Protection licence.
To ensure our Close Protection operatives are of high quality Chiron ensures that
they have attended a great depth of formal Government run Security Training. For
more detail see Chiron page on Security training:
Chiron provided a team of Close Protection Operatives to work with the BBC in Manchester
during the UEFA Cup Final. Read what the BBC said about us....
If you are employing security to back watch a TV crew or Sat truck in England, Wales
and Scotland then your security must have the correct license. Ignorance is not an
excuse...
Chris Cobb-Smith has recently been deployed in Georgia supporting a BBC TV News
teams. To see some recent photographs click the link below: