Armed Bodyguard in Miami
Hiring a bodyguard in Miami, answered.
Yes, you can - and in Florida it is straightforward and fully legal. A licensed close protection officer meets you at the aircraft door or the hotel, stays beside you from South Beach to Bal Harbour and Palm Beach, and carries a firearm where the assessment justifies it. Send your dates and you receive a clear proposal with a final rate - no obligation.
What people ask before enquiring.
Is it legal?
Yes. Florida licenses private security under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes: a Class ‘D’ licence for the officer and a statewide Class ‘G’ licence to carry a firearm on duty. Every armed detail we field holds both.
What it costs
Priced to your profile and itinerary - armed configurations, armoured vehicles and the event weeks carry a premium. Final rate on enquiry; an idea of day rates is in the FAQ below.
How fast
Standard mobilisation within 48 hours across Miami and South Florida when officers are available. Art Basel week, the Grand Prix and the winter season book out early, so give notice.
Armed or unarmed
Both. Florida permits lawfully licensed armed protection, and Miami is one of the markets where an armed officer is often the correct recommendation. The threat assessment decides, not the image; for unarmed details see bodyguard in Miami.
Where we cover
Miami and Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Naples, Orlando and the Florida Keys, under one standard and one operations desk.
Who you get
Vetted Florida-licensed officers, many from police, federal and military backgrounds, English and Spanish speaking as standard, with Portuguese and Russian speakers and female officers on request.
Why Hire a Bodyguard in Miami?
Miami is the meeting point of the Americas: the banking towers of Brickell serve capital from São Paulo to New York, PortMiami is the busiest cruise port in the world, the marinas hold one of the largest concentrations of superyachts in the hemisphere, and for one week each December the global art market moves to Miami Beach. Wealth here is not discreet by culture - it is worn, driven and moored in plain sight - and the same openness that makes the city magnetic also makes a principal easy to read. A watch is noticed at dinner, a story is geotagged from a penthouse, and a routine becomes an itinerary for anyone paying attention.
Algoz provides bodyguard services across Florida through a network of locally licensed security professionals, many with Miami-Dade Police, FBI, U.S. Secret Service or Florida Highway Patrol backgrounds. Our clients are Latin American and international families, executives closing deals in Brickell, collectors in town for the fairs, owners and charter guests on the water, and the family offices and assistants who arrange it all on their behalf. The brief is given once. Everything after that, from the jet bridge at MIA to the last night on Collins Avenue, is planned, driven and covered by one team.
The specific HNWI risk profile.
Targeted & Follow-Home Theft
Luxury watches and jewellery are spotted in restaurants, clubs and valet lines and taken later - follow-home robbery from nightlife and luxury retail is a recognised South Florida pattern, planned rather than opportunistic.
Event Density
Art Basel in December, the Formula 1 weekend in May, Ultra at Bayfront Park and boat show week compress collectors, celebrities, crowds and road closures into a few blocks at a time.
Social Media Targeting
A geotagged story from a penthouse, a charter yacht or a courtside seat tells an organised crew exactly where a principal is - visible wealth online reads as an itinerary.
Causeway Chokepoints
All traffic between the mainland and the beach runs over the MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle causeways, and the I-95 corridor north to Palm Beach rewards planned, driven movement over improvisation.
Waterfront Exposure
Marinas, tenders, charter berths and dockside events from Miami Beach Marina to Island Gardens create open waterside approaches that a land-only detail does not cover.
Confidentiality Risk
Brickell is a hemispheric banking and fund centre; negotiations, closings and family-office meetings benefit from counter-surveillance awareness and an itinerary treated as confidential information.
Bodyguard Services in Miami
Close Protection Officers
Florida Class D and Class G licensed, drawn from police, federal and military backgrounds, NDA-bound, briefed to our standard and supervised throughout the engagement.
Secure Transportation
Armoured options where justified, executive Mercedes and SUV fleets otherwise, protective drivers and planned primary and alternate routes on every movement.
Family & Residence Details
Cover for spouses and children across schools, shopping and days out, residence details on the islands and in the Gables, with female close protection officers available.
Yacht & Marina Details
Officers for owner and charter itineraries, berth and tender coverage, and guest management from the dock to open water.
Event Protection
Art Basel, galas, the Grand Prix and private estate events: advance work, venue and hotel liaison, timed arrivals and a clean extraction plan.
Concierge + Security
Hotel placement, dining, private aviation and access built around the detail by the same team, so you hold one number for the whole visit.
South Beach & the oceanfront hotels
Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue concentrate the hotels the world knows - the Setai, Faena, the Fontainebleau, the beachfront estates of the condominium towers - together with the highest pedestrian density in Florida. Protective work here is about tempo: hotel liaison agreed before arrival, a floor and lift plan, an officer who reads as a companion on Lincoln Road rather than as staff, and a vehicle staged off the oceanfront grid where it can actually move. Nightlife is worked in low profile, and the exit is planned before the entrance.
Brickell & Downtown Miami
Brickell Avenue stacks the banks, funds and family offices that make Miami the financial gateway between the United States and Latin America, with the Kaseya Center and the Adrienne Arsht Center on the bay below. Details here are quiet by design: protected movement between meetings in mixed-use towers, lobby and elevator awareness, device and document discipline, and a driver holding position in a district where kerb space is scarce. When the working day ends, the same team covers dinner in the Design District or a game on the bayfront without a handover.
Art Basel Miami Beach & Miami Art Week
For one week each December the art world sits in Miami: Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Design Miami beside it, and satellite fairs, museum openings and collector dinners running from Wynwood to the Design District. Collectors move between venues with values that would justify protection anywhere on earth. We plan the week as a single operation - credentialed access, timed arrivals, discreet officers inside the fairs, secure movement between venues and evening events, and coordination with fair and hotel security rather than friction with it.
The Design District & Bal Harbour Shops
The Miami Design District and Bal Harbour Shops hold the flagship maisons and jewellery houses of the American southeast, and a successful afternoon in either is visible by definition. The protective answer is procedural rather than dramatic: an officer positioned between the boutique door and the vehicle, purchases carried unmarked, the schedule left untelegraphed, and the return route varied. For principals who prefer not to appear at all, we arrange private appointments and closed-door viewings through the same contact who runs the detail.
Yachts, marinas & the waterfront
Miami is one of the yachting capitals of the Americas: Miami Beach Marina at the mouth of Government Cut, the superyacht berths of Island Gardens on Watson Island, the private docks of the residential islands, and boat show week each February. We cover owners and charter guests at the berth, on the tender and ashore, with guest-list discipline for onboard events and an officer who moves with the party rather than standing a gangway. A yacht charter and its protection can be arranged through the same brief.
Airports, private aviation & protected transfers
Most principals arrive through Miami International or Fort Lauderdale, and most private movements use the executive fields at Opa-locka and Miami Executive. We arrange the meet inside the terminal or at the aircraft steps, luggage handled and counted, and a vehicle positioned so the walk from the door is short and observed. From there the transfer is a plan rather than a hope: causeway timing, alternate routes, and the same standard applied to Palm Beach and Orlando arrivals. See executive transportation in Miami.
Residential Miami: the islands & the Gables
Star Island and the Venetian Islands, Fisher Island reached by ferry, Indian Creek with its own village police force, and the gated enclaves of Coral Gables and Coconut Grove: Miami’s residential geography is famous, and the fame is precisely the exposure. We run residence and estate details sized to the family rather than to the gate - arrival and departure variation, contractor and household staff awareness, school-run cover and quiet coordination with community security, so the address stays a home rather than a destination. How close protection works.
Beyond Miami: Palm Beach, Orlando & the Keys
Florida itineraries rarely stay inside city limits. The winter season moves north to Palm Beach - The Breakers, Worth Avenue and the estate galas - while Orlando brings UHNW families to Walt Disney World and Universal with discreet officers integrated into VIP tour programmes, and the Overseas Highway carries the itinerary south through the Keys. One brief covers the state: the same officers or a planned handover, protected road moves on I-95, and coverage from Naples to Key West through the same transport desk.
Why armed protection in Miami must be licensed.
In Florida, private security is licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Division of Licensing) under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes. A security officer holds a Class ‘D’ licence; carrying a firearm on duty additionally requires the statewide Class ‘G’ armed licence, with mandated firearms training and recurrent qualification. An unlicensed operator, however impressive the résumé, cannot lawfully work a protective detail in Florida, and engaging one exposes the principal as well as the operator. Protection is delivered strictly within this licensed framework.
Algoz coordinates armed protection in Miami exclusively through this licensed framework, with every operative licensed, NDA-bound and discreet. For discreet unarmed cover in the same city, see bodyguard in Miami. See how our close protection works, add concierge or VIP concierge across the United States and secure transport, or extend to New York, Los Angeles, Aspen and Rio de Janeiro.
The moments that specifically call for protection in Miami.
December is the obvious one: Art Basel and Miami Art Week put the highest concentration of collectors, dealers and public figures of the year into a few blocks of Miami Beach. The Formula 1 weekend in May at the Miami International Autodrome fills every suite and paddock club in Miami Gardens, and the February to March run - boat show week, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, the Miami Open and Ultra - keeps venues, causeways and hotels at capacity. Through it all, the winter season moves high society between Miami and Palm Beach from December to April.
Business travel into Brickell is the quieter category, where the requirement is confidentiality and clean movement rather than visible presence. Arrivals at MIA and late movement between dinner, clubs and the causeways are the two moments where even a short stay benefits from an officer and a protective driver, given the follow-home pattern the region is known for. And for families, the practical value is simplest at the theme parks and on the water: the children enjoy the day while someone whose job it is watches everything approaching it.
"In a city built on being seen, the rarest luxury is deciding who gets close."
Hire an Armed Bodyguard in Miami
Share your dates, party size and itinerary and we respond with a clear proposal and a final rate, confidential from the first message. Armed configurations, armoured packages and team deployments are quoted to your brief. Standard mobilisation within 48 hours.
EnquireWhat protection in Miami costs.
Rates for the United States are confirmed on enquiry; as a market guide, professional close protection across our regions starts from around EUR 850 per day (about USD 900) for a single principal on twelve-hour cover. Specialist profiles, armed or armoured requirements, short-notice mobilisation and peak season carry a premium, and armed configurations and multi-operative teams always sit above the base, quoted to the brief.
Further reading: what a bodyguard costs, our full close protection pricing guide, how a security driver works, and how modern close protection is run.
Protection in related destinations.
Protecting celebrities & public figures
Actors, musicians, athletes, royals and the people the world recognises - celebrity protection is its own discipline: anti-paparazzi strategy, leak-proof operations, crowd and stalker management, and details that switch from red carpet to invisible in the same day.
Celebrity Close ProtectionAlgoz FZ-LLC (Trade License 5033995 | TRN 105119056700001) is licensed for Businessmen Services and Lifestyle Development Consultancy by RAKEZ. We do not directly provide armed or unarmed security, bodyguard or close-protection services. All operational execution is performed exclusively by licensed third-party partners holding the necessary local permits (in Florida: agencies and officers licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services under Chapter 493, Florida Statutes). We provide direct assistance and support in partnership with local regulated providers, complying with local laws. Clients are responsible for obtaining any required approvals. Armed services require a minimum 30-day lead time for authorisation, which may be refused. All activities comply with UAE laws and RAKEZ regulations.