Bodyguard in Lima
Can you hire a bodyguard in Lima?
Yes, through licensed Peruvian partners working under Peru’s private security law, which SUCAMEC supervises. Algoz is a protection house that also runs the concierge side: one contact answers for the officer, the driver and the stay.
Lima is a city of about ten million that a visitor crosses almost entirely by road, and in November 2026 it is under a state of emergency. Both are planning problems. Send the dates for a written proposal, with no obligation, from USD 750 per day for one officer on twelve-hour cover.
- Officers from licensed Peruvian companies, vetted and under NDA
- Arrivals met at Jorge Chávez, the vehicle pre-booked
- San Isidro, Miraflores and Barranco read by door and by hour
- Evenings planned around the table, the exit and the car
- Residences, school runs and the coast south on the same brief
- One contact in English or Spanish, arrival to departure
Hiring a bodyguard in Lima: the questions people ask first.
Is it legal to hire a bodyguard in Lima?
Yes, under Peru’s private security law and its regulator, SUCAMEC: the framework is set out below. Your own head of security can accompany you as a guest in the party, briefed with the local team; the protective work is done by locally licensed agents.
What a bodyguard costs in Lima
From USD 750 per day for one officer on twelve-hour cover, and the same for a security-trained driver. Chauffeurs and vehicles, armoured included, are each quoted separately.
How much notice we need
We ask for at least seven days; under 48 hours carries an urgency fee and is not guaranteed. For the Pan American Games, scheduled for 23 July to 8 August 2027, send the dates early.
Armed or unarmed
Armed cover is on request only, through licensed Peruvian security companies and where the law allows it: a minimum 30-day lead time for authorisation, a higher cost, and it may be refused. Never promised. For most Lima visits a low-profile, well-driven detail is the better answer.
Where we cover
San Isidro, Miraflores, Barranco, the Centro Histórico, La Molina and Surco, Callao and the airport, and the beaches south. Cusco and the Sacred Valley and the rest of Peru run under the same brief.
Who your officer is
Vetted officers from licensed Peruvian companies, each carrying the SUCAMEC card and under NDA. They work in Spanish and English, with female officers on request.
Bodyguard services in Lima.
Licensed Peruvian officers
Officers from authorised companies, vetted by the house and under NDA. Close where the risk sits, absent where they are not needed.
Security drivers and secure transport
In a city this slow, the driver is the plan: the hour, the entrance, the alternate. See executive transportation.
Jorge Chávez, met
The officer in the arrivals hall, the luggage counted, the pre-booked vehicle waiting. Private flights go on the same brief: see private jet charter.
Armoured vehicles
On request, subject to availability, as its own line. No rating is quoted without the certificate for that car.
Residences and families
The house walked first, the school run varied, the staff briefed, a female officer where preferred. See female travel protection.
Tables and evenings
The table chosen for its exit, the car held close, the walk kept short. For the tables themselves, see luxury concierge in Lima.
The districts a visit uses, and how protection works in each
San Isidro is the financial centre: banks, embassies, and hotels such as the Country Club Lima, the Swissôtel and the Hyatt Centric. The work is the building entrance and an hour that varies. Miraflores is the clifftop: the Malecón, Larcomar, Miraflores Park, the JW Marriott. OSAC, the US State Department’s overseas security council, named it in its 2025 report for pickpockets and phone theft, so the walk and the phone are managed. Barranco is the evening district: Central and Kjolle share Avenida Pedro de Osma 301, the Museo Pedro de Osma stands at 421, and the car is held close. The Centro Histórico is on the UNESCO list. The British Foreign Office says protests in Lima often happen there and access can be restricted; Spain rates it medium risk for common crime, by day included. We go early, with the exit agreed. La Molina and the estates of Surco are residential. Callao holds the airport and the port: for most visitors, a place crossed by car. We label no district safe and none dangerous. Each is a set of doors and hours.
Luxury concierge in LimaSecure airport transfer from Jorge Chávez: the new terminal and the road in
The new terminal at Jorge Chávez, in Callao, has operated since 1 June 2025. Passengers reach it by Avenida Morales Duárez, over temporary vehicle bridges as reported in 2025, and no metro line reaches it. The airport lists its own taxi companies at counters in arrivals, and the British Foreign Office tells travellers to use those desks. OSAC’s 2025 report records robbers following travellers from the airport to the hotel, late at night or early in the morning. Spain advises keeping luggage in the boot, because windows are broken at traffic lights. So the vehicle is pre-booked, the driver vetted, the officer in the hall, the luggage counted and the route chosen with its alternate. Miraflores is about 17 to 20 kilometres away. Hotels there quote 35 and 45 minutes; TomTom’s 2025 index averages more than 51 minutes for ten kilometres in the evening rush, so we promise no time. For a late arrival, the Wyndham Grand Costa del Sol stands 60 metres from the terminal. We claim no fast track, no airside meet and no skipped queue.
Executive transportation and security drivers in LimaThe risk picture, honestly: the state of emergency, extortion and express kidnapping
The US State Department rates Peru at Level 2, in an advisory issued on 4 September 2026. It says express kidnappings, though rare, may occur, and advises against resisting a robbery or showing an expensive watch. A state of emergency covers Metropolitan Lima and Callao: El Peruano, the official gazette, reported its extension for 60 days from 28 October 2026. The police keep internal order with armed forces support, and mass events need a permit. Canada tells travellers to carry photo identification. Extortion drives the headlines: press reports of Ministerio Público figures count 12,634 complaints for extortion and blackmail nationwide from January to June 2026. Those reports describe merchants, markets, transport operators and families, and do not mention visitors. That is an absence of mention, not an assurance: Australia says foreigners and mining interests are seen as lucrative kidnapping targets. It also records phone snatching from motorbikes and smash-and-grab at traffic lights. Demonstrations concentrate in the centre, and foreigners may not take part in political activity. Where you stand, whose car you are in and when you leave can be planned. We plan them, and we promise no more than that.
Bodyguard across PeruExecutive protection for the business visit: boards, mining and energy headquarters, due diligence
San Isidro is where the banks, the embassies and head offices in mining and energy sit, so a business visit is a string of doors: hotel, tower, lunch, tower, dinner. Executive protection here is the car and the diary. The driver knows which entrance to use. Departure hours vary. No name goes on a board in arrivals, and the meeting room is chosen with the way out in mind. Deal and due diligence teams work under NDA from the first message. Routine is the exposure. Site visits usually begin with a flight out of Lima; the road and the mine belong to close protection across Peru.
Executive transportation across PeruFamilies, residences and the summer coast: La Molina and the beaches south
La Molina is described as a district of gated communities and large houses. La Planicie, inside it, is reported as a restricted-access estate whose owners’ association runs the gatehouse, and access is restricted at Las Casuarinas in Surco. Yet OSAC’s 2025 report puts Surco among five districts, with San Juan de Lurigancho, the centre, San Martín de Porres and Comas, that account for 35 per cent of Lima’s reported crime. A gate controls its own gate, not the road to it. Serenazgo, the unarmed municipal patrol, supplements the police. For a family, the brief starts at the house and follows the school and club run. Night cover is its own line. From December to April Lima has its sun, and weekends go south along the Panamericana Sur: Punta Hermosa lies about 42 kilometres from the centre, Asia about 100. We quote no drive time for the run. Weekend traffic decides.
Villas and property rentalEvenings, tables and clinics: how a Lima detail is actually run
It starts with the diary, not a headcount. We propose the smallest team that covers the brief: often a security driver alone, usually one officer with a driver. Evenings are planned around the table. Maido is in Miraflores, Central, Kjolle and Mérito in Barranco, Astrid y Gastón in San Isidro. The car is held where it can leave, and the phone stays off the pavement. On the published text, firearms may not be carried in bars, clubs or at shows, and event security, its own category in the regulation, is delivered without them: one more reason the evening detail is a quiet one. Private clinics, among them Clínica Anglo Americana in San Isidro and Clínica San Felipe in Jesús María, are mapped before anyone needs one. The police number is 105. If the brief does not need an officer, we say so.
How close protection worksWhen protection in Lima earns its day.
Summer and the coast south
Lima has its sun and weekends go south. The British Foreign Office expects heavy El Niño rain on the northern and central coast until April 2027.
Pinta Lima
The art fair holds its fourteenth edition at Casa Prado in Miraflores: openings and late dinners, by door and by hour.
The grey months
Low cloud and drizzle, the garúa. The diary is boards and tables.
The Pan American Games
Scheduled for these dates, with the national holidays of 28 and 29 July inside them.
PERUMIN 38
The mining convention meets in Arequipa. Meetings added in San Isidro go on the same brief.
The processions
The Señor de los Milagros processions draw very large crowds to the centre, where on the published text firearms may not be carried at religious gatherings.
The brief, the proposal, the car, the stay.
The brief, under NDA
Dates, profile, hotel or residence, meetings and how you arrive, under NDA from the first message.
The proposal
One figure per line, with no obligation. If a security driver alone is enough, it says so.
The provider
A licensed Peruvian company, retained on merit. Once the engagement is confirmed, you see the officer’s profile before deployment.
The car and the arrival
The driver, the vehicle, the meet at Jorge Chávez and the first route with its alternate.
The stay
Present at the kerb, the door and the evening. Out of your way everywhere else.
One contact
One coordinator for officers, drivers and the concierge side, until you leave Peru.
“Lima is a city of doors and hours. Protection here is knowing which door, at which hour, and whose car is waiting outside it.”
What a bodyguard costs in Lima.
Close protection in Lima starts from USD 750 per day for one officer on twelve-hour cover, and a security-trained driver is priced as close protection. A chauffeur, a vehicle, an armoured vehicle, flights and hotels are each quoted as its own line, one figure per line, confirmed before you pay.
Armed cover costs more, needs a minimum 30-day lead time for authorisation, may be refused and is rarely the better answer here. See what a bodyguard costs and what a security driver costs.
How close protection is regulated in Lima.
Private security in Peru runs under Decreto Legislativo 1213, in force since 15 January 2023, and its Reglamento, Decreto Supremo 005-2023-IN, published on 12 May 2023. SUCAMEC, the national superintendency for security services, arms and explosives, supervises it. Personal protection is its own category: authorised companies accompany a person for their defence, and each agent carries a SUCAMEC card on duty.
Firearms sit under a separate law, Ley 30299. On the published texts an armed agent carries a weapon owned by the employing company, and carrying is barred at demonstrations, shows and nightlife venues. The decree also asks whoever contracts security to verify that the provider’s authorisation is current. This summarises the published texts and is not legal advice. See bodyguard laws by country.
The moments that call for protection in Lima.
The arrival and the first transfer. A board week in San Isidro. A due diligence visit with a site to follow. The evenings in Miraflores and Barranco. A posting with a family and a residence. A summer weekend on the coast south.
Not every visit needs an officer. See travel and destination management for the rest of the journey.
Send the dates.
Tell us the dates, the hotel or residence and how you arrive. You receive a written proposal, one figure per line, with no obligation. Officer and driver profiles and the routes follow once the engagement is confirmed and under NDA.
Enquire WhatsAppThe people who take protection in Lima.
A board week in San Isidro
The airport meet, the towers, the dinner where nobody listens.
Due diligence and site visits
NDA from the first message, a driver who varies the hour, the onward flight on one brief.
A posting or a long stay
The residence walked first, the school run varied, female officers where preferred.
Visibility in Miraflores and Barranco
Arrivals planned around the phones, exits that avoid the lobby. See celebrity close protection.
Lima before Cusco
Tables and museums with a vetted driver, then Cusco and Machu Picchu with the same contact.
Booking for a principal
You brief once and keep one contact. A provider learns only what the work requires.
Lima, the coast and the country beyond it.
The same house runs protection across Peru and in Cusco and the Sacred Valley, with luxury travel in Peru, luxury concierge in Peru and executive transportation across Peru on the same brief.
Protection in related destinations.
Algoz FZ-LLC (Trade License 5033995 | TRN 105119056700001) is licensed by RAKEZ for Businessmen Services and Lifestyle Development Consultancy. Operational services such as security, transportation and concierge are delivered through vetted, licensed specialist partners, selected, contracted and overseen by Algoz. All operational execution is performed exclusively by licensed third-party partners holding the necessary local permits (in Peru: the private security law, Decreto Legislativo 1213, and its Reglamento, Decreto Supremo 005-2023-IN, supervised by SUCAMEC). We provide direct assistance and support in partnership with regulated local providers, in compliance with local law. Clients remain responsible for obtaining any required approvals. Rules on armed services vary by country and there are exceptions; where an authorisation is required, it needs a minimum 30-day lead time and may be refused. All activities comply with UAE law and RAKEZ regulations.