Family Protection Services

A protection program that covers the principal but leaves family members exposed has a vulnerability that sophisticated targeting will identify. Children, spouses, and other family members who carry exposure from a prominent family's profile are not peripheral security considerations. They are often the primary point of attack for those who want to reach the principal indirectly.

Pentagon provides family protection services for UHNW and high-profile families across Southern California. Our programs address every member of the household with coverage that is appropriate to their specific circumstances, calibrated to their daily routines, and designed to integrate into family life without disrupting it. Founded in 2000 by former U.S. Army Recon Scout and LA County Sheriff's Deputy David S. Boone, we have protected Southern California families for 25 years through a team of specialists from the Secret Service, FBI, SWAT, Special Operations, and Diplomatic Security Service.

Who Family Protection Covers

Children

Children of UHNW and high-profile families carry significant kidnapping and targeting risk arising from their family's wealth and public profile. Pentagon provides discrete, age-appropriate protection for children that covers school runs, extracurricular activities, social engagements, and after-school schedules without creating a security presence that disrupts their education or peer relationships.

Our agents assigned to child protection are specifically selected and trained for this context. They understand child development, maintain the low-profile presence that school and activity environments require, and coordinate seamlessly with teachers, coaches, and other trusted adults in the child's environment. Protection does not look like security. It looks like a trusted member of the family's support network.

Spouses and Partners

Spouses and partners of UHNW and high-profile principals carry exposure from the family's profile that is often underestimated. Personal targeting, kidnapping risk, and the specific threat categories that high-asset divorce proceedings create are all scenarios Pentagon has addressed for Southern California families. Coverage for spouses is designed around their specific daily patterns, social obligations, and personal preferences for how protection integrates into their lives.

Extended Family Members

Parents, siblings, and other extended family members whose connection to a prominent principal creates targeting risk require coverage that is proportionate to their actual exposure. Pentagon assesses extended family risk as part of the broader family threat picture and designs coverage that addresses genuine vulnerabilities without over-deploying resources where the actual risk does not warrant it.

Family Protection Services

Secure School Runs and Daily Movements

The school run is one of the most predictable elements of a family's daily pattern and therefore one of the most exploitable from a targeting perspective. Pentagon designs secure transportation and escort protocols for children's daily movements that vary routes, maintain situational awareness, and provide immediate response capability without the visible security presence that would make children feel different from their peers.

Family Close Protection

For elevated threat periods or for families whose ongoing risk profile warrants it, Pentagon deploys personal protection agents assigned to individual family members. Coverage is continuous across the family member's daily schedule and coordinated with the broader family protection program to ensure no gap in coverage between family members.

Family Travel Security

Family travel introduces security complexity that individual principal travel does not. Coordinating coverage across multiple family members in unfamiliar environments, managing the predictability of travel patterns, and maintaining the family's ability to travel freely while under protection all require specific planning. Pentagon coordinates travel security for UHNW families across domestic and international destinations, with advance work that prepares each destination before the family arrives.

Family Event Security

Private family events, social engagements, holiday gatherings, and the children's activities that concentrate the family in semi-public environments each carry their own security considerations. Pentagon coordinates family event coverage that maintains a discreet protective posture without creating a security atmosphere incompatible with the occasion.

Family Threat Assessment

Pentagon conducts comprehensive threat assessments that evaluate risk across all family members, not just the primary principal. The assessment identifies who is actually at risk, from what threat categories, and where the family's collective exposure profile is most vulnerable. Protection programs are built from this intelligence, not from assumptions about which family members matter and which do not.

Family Protection in Southern California Communities

UHNW families across Southern California live in communities that carry their own security profiles. Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. Newport Coast, Coto de Caza, and Pelican Hill in Orange County. La Jolla, Del Mar, and Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego. Pentagon's family protection programs are built around the specific environments where these families actually live, not around a generic Southern California template.

For families residing in gated communities, Pentagon's programs account for the security infrastructure those communities provide and build on it rather than duplicating it. For families in less controlled residential environments, programs are designed to compensate for the exposure that comes with greater accessibility.

Integration with Estate Security

Family protection and estate security are complementary programs that together address a family's complete protection profile. A family whose members are protected personally but whose residence is not secured has a vulnerability. A residence that is secured but whose family members move through the world without protection has a different vulnerability. Pentagon integrates both programs into a coherent protection architecture that addresses the family's full exposure.

Why Families Choose Pentagon

As a boutique firm, founder David S. Boone personally oversees every family protection engagement. Families choose Pentagon because they are not managed by a rotating account team or matched with available personnel from a large roster. The agents assigned to their family are specifically selected for the family's circumstances, trained to the federal standard our team maintains, and accountable directly to David S. Boone.

Our past partnership with Dr. Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of behavior, emotion, and deception, shaped the behavioral science methodology our agents apply in every protection context. In family protection, that methodology translates into agents who recognize behavioral threat indicators in the environments around your children and family members before those indicators become incidents.

Request a Family Protection Consultation

Pentagon provides confidential consultations for UHNW families and their representatives evaluating family protection options. All conversations are held in strict confidence. David S. Boone personally reviews every consultation request.