Bodyguard in Miami
Hiring a bodyguard in Miami, answered.
Yes, you can - and in Miami it is straightforward and fully legal. A licensed close protection officer meets you at the aircraft steps or the hotel door, stays beside you from South Beach to Bal Harbour, and a security driver handles the causeways in between. Most Miami details run unarmed and low profile; where a firearm is genuinely warranted, see our armed bodyguard in Miami page. 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, and unarmed protective officers hold the Class ‘D’ security officer licence. Algoz coordinates only within that framework.
What it costs
Priced to the profile and the itinerary - the event weeks, short notice and specialist profiles carry a premium. The final rate comes with the proposal; an idea of day rates is in the FAQ below.
How fast
Standard requests are honoured within 48 hours and priority requests within 24. Art Basel, the Grand Prix weekend and boat show week book out early, so give notice.
Armed or unarmed
Most Miami details are correctly unarmed: planning, a skilled driver and a low profile do the work. Where the assessment calls for a firearm, Florida’s Class ‘G’ framework applies - covered on our armed Miami page.
Where we cover
Miami and Miami Beach first - South Beach, Brickell, the residential islands, Coral Gables, Bal Harbour - then Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Boca Raton and the rest of Florida.
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 wears its wealth in plain sight. The banking towers of Brickell serve capital from both hemispheres, the marinas hold one of the largest superyacht concentrations in the Americas, and each December the global art market moves to Miami Beach. In a city this open, the real exposure is rarely dramatic: it is attention, approach and information. Most of that is answered not by a firearm but by planning, a practised driver and an officer who is never noticed.
Algoz coordinates discreet unarmed protection across Miami through vetted, Florida-licensed professionals, many with Miami-Dade Police, federal or military backgrounds. Our clients are international families wintering on the islands, executives closing in Brickell, collectors in town for the fairs, and the family offices and assistants who arrange it all. The brief is given once; from the jet bridge to the last dinner on Collins Avenue, one team plans, drives and covers everything.
What a Miami detail actually protects against.
Follow-Home Theft
Watches and jewellery are marked at restaurants, clubs and valet lines and taken later at the residence - a recognised South Florida pattern, and the one a professional detail is best placed to break.
Event Density
Art Basel in December, the Formula 1 weekend in May and boat show week in February 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 deck or a courtside seat tells an organised crew exactly where a principal is; visible wealth online reads as an itinerary.
Causeway Chokepoints
Everything between the mainland and the beach crosses the MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle causeways; long, predictable transfers reward planned, driven movement over improvisation.
Nightlife & Crowds
Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue concentrate the densest late-night foot traffic in Florida; the walk from a club door to a vehicle is short, visible and best rehearsed in advance.
Confidentiality Risk
Brickell is a hemispheric banking centre; negotiations and family-office meetings benefit from counter-surveillance awareness and an itinerary treated as confidential information.
Bodyguard Services in Miami
Licensed Officers
Florida Class D licensed close protection officers from police, federal and military backgrounds, NDA-bound, briefed to our standard and supervised throughout the engagement.
Secure Transportation
Executive SUVs and sedans with protective drivers, planned primary and alternate routes on every movement.
Island & Residence Details
Quiet protective presence on Star Island, the Venetian Islands, Indian Creek and in the Gables, with school-run cover and female close protection officers available.
Event & Fair Protection
Art Basel, galas, the race weekend and private estate events: advance work, venue and hotel liaison, timed arrivals and a clean departure plan.
Waterfront Details
Officers for owners and charter guests at the berth, on the tender and ashore, with guest management for dockside and onboard events.
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 Miami Beach oceanfront
The hotels the world knows - the Setai, Faena, the Fontainebleau - sit on the most watched stretch of coastline in Florida, and protective work here is about tempo rather than presence. Hotel liaison is agreed before arrival, a floor and lift plan is in place at check-in, and the officer reads as a companion on Lincoln Road rather than as staff. Dinner and nightlife are worked in low profile, with the vehicle staged off the oceanfront grid where it can actually move, and the exit planned before the entrance.
Star Island, Indian Creek & the residential islands
Miami’s residential geography is famous, and the fame is precisely the exposure: Star Island and the Venetian Islands, Fisher Island reached by ferry, Indian Creek with its own village police force, and the gated streets of Coral Gables and Coconut Grove. An unarmed residence detail is 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.
Brickell & business Miami
Brickell Avenue stacks the banks, funds and family offices that make Miami the financial gateway between the United States and Latin America. Details here are measured in discretion: 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 officer covers dinner in the Design District 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 and collector dinners running from Wynwood to the Design District. It is the week where a low-profile unarmed officer is exactly the right instrument: fairs and private views are environments a visible guard disrupts. We plan the week as a single operation: credentialed access, timed arrivals, discreet officers inside the fairs, secure movement between venues, and coordination with fair and hotel security rather than friction with it.
The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix weekend
The May race weekend at the Miami International Autodrome fills every suite and paddock club in Miami Gardens and the beach hotels behind it. The protective problem is movement: road closures reshape the grid, hotel-to-circuit transfers stack into the same windows, and the after-parties scatter back across the causeways late. We work the weekend on timing - circuit arrivals planned around the closure map, credentials and drop points agreed in advance, an officer who moves with the party through hospitality, and a driver already positioned for the night moves.
Boat show week & the waterfront
Miami is one of the yachting capitals of the Americas - Miami Beach Marina, the superyacht berths of Island Gardens, the private docks of the residential islands - and boat show week each February puts owners, dealers and serious money on the same docks. 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. A yacht charter and its protection are arranged through the same brief.
Opa-locka, private aviation & protected arrivals
Most private movements into Miami use the executive fields at Opa-locka and Miami Executive, where the distance from aircraft steps to a staged vehicle is a handshake; commercial arrivals come through Miami International, where the kerbside is the most public moment of the itinerary. We plan both out of existence: a meet at the aircraft or inside the terminal, luggage handled and counted, and a transfer that is a route plan rather than a hope - causeway timing and alternates held in reserve. See executive transportation in Miami.
How a Miami detail is actually run
It starts with your calendar, not with a headcount. We read the dates, the profile, the venues and the season, then propose the smallest team that genuinely covers it: most often one unarmed officer with a security driver, sometimes a two-officer rotation for a fair week, occasionally a full detail with advance work at every venue. Every officer is Florida-licensed, NDA-bound and briefed to the Algoz standard, and one contact stays with the engagement from proposal to wheels-up. How close protection works.
Why an unarmed bodyguard in Miami is still licensed.
Private security in Florida is licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Division of Licensing) under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes. A protective officer holds the Class ‘D’ security officer licence; carrying a firearm on duty additionally requires the statewide Class ‘G’ armed licence, the framework covered on our armed bodyguard in Miami page. An unlicensed individual cannot lawfully work a protective detail in Florida, and engaging one exposes the principal as well as the operator and voids meaningful liability cover.
Algoz coordinates protection in Miami exclusively through this licensed framework, with every operative vetted, NDA-bound and discreet. See how our close protection works, combine it with VIP concierge across the United States, add secure transport in Miami, or extend to New York, Los Angeles and Aspen.
The moments that specifically call for protection in Miami.
December is the obvious one: Art Basel and Miami Art Week concentrate the collectors, dealers and public figures of the year into a few blocks of Miami Beach. The Formula 1 weekend in May fills Miami Gardens, and the February to March run - boat show week and the winter season moving between Miami and Palm Beach - keeps hotels, marinas and causeways at capacity.
Business weeks in Brickell are the quieter category, where the requirement is confidentiality and clean movement rather than visible presence. Arrivals at Miami International or the executive fields, 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.
"In a city that wears its wealth in plain sight, the sharpest protection is the kind nobody notices."
Hire a Bodyguard in Miami
Standard requests honoured within 48 hours; priority requests within 24 hours. Share your dates and itinerary and we respond with a clear proposal and a final rate, confidential from the first message.
EnquireWhat protection in Miami costs.
As a guide, professional close protection in the United States is, in 2026, from USD 900 per day (the EUR 850 market base) for a single principal on twelve-hour cover, with the final rate shaped by the profile, the season and the brief, and confirmed on enquiry with no obligation. Short-notice mobilisation and the event weeks carry a premium; a security driver with an executive vehicle is quoted separately and is usually the most useful addition. Armed cover and team details sit above the base, quoted to the brief, and are arranged through our armed Miami page.
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.