Personal Load Carrying Equipment and Body Armour
Prime Defence use Personal Load Carrying Equipment (PLCE), a tough, modular system of camouflaged belt, yoke and pouches. Where additional ballistic protection is required, we use Enhanced Body Armour, which can be further reinforced with ceramic armour plates.

Light Body Armour
Covert Vests Lightweight Bullet/Stab-Proof Vest – Threat Level II - used for close protection duties by our bodyguards where deemed necessary.

Personal Role Radio
The Personal Role Radio (PRR) is a small transmitter-receiver that allows our military personnel to communicate over short distances - even through thick cover or the walls of buildings - without shouting, hand signals or relaying messages. PRR enables section commanders to react quickly, aggressively and efficiently to rapidly changing situations including contact with hostiles. This greatly increases the effectiveness of fire teams.


GSM Bugs & Spy Phones
We use the latest state of the art technology spy phones/ GSM Bugs. These allow the user to listen in to both room and/ or telephone conversations from anywhere in the world using the GSM cellular network. Not only do these units offer unlimited range but they are also very difficult to detect as any counter-surveillance procedures would find it very difficult to isolate one signal from the many thousands of others that are likely to be present.

Personal Clothing and Equipment
The Combat 95 clothing system has to satisfy stringent military requirements covering infra-red reflection, thermal signature and flame resistance. It is based on the layer principle and is designed to provide exactly the right degree of protection for any operational environment including extreme climatic conditions.

Armoured Vehicles
We use a number of different types of vehicles dependant upon the location, assignment and requirement including; stretched Mercedes 560SEL Limousine, armoured Landrover Defender 110, Range Rover's, BMW's, Land Cruiser's, Jankel vehicles and Hummers.

Sniper Rifle
Designed to achieve first-round hit at 600m and harassing fire out to 1100m, the superb Accuracy International L96 sniper rifle as used by the British Army has been upgraded with a new x3-x12 x 50 sight and spotting scope. Also available is the L115A1 long range Rifle (LRR), which fires an 8.59mm bullet, heavier than the 7.62mm round of the L96 and less likely to be deflected over extremely long ranges.

Weapons
Click here to see some the favorite automatic weapons in action as used by our personnel and also some of the heavier equipment available to us including aircraft. Watch the Prime Defence rapid response hostage team in action. See the Warrior family of tracked armoured vehicles, developed by Alvis Vickers Ltd (now BAE Systems Land Systems) and which have been proven in action with the British Army in Middle East operations during Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and on UN duties in Bosnia. See the Apache and Chinook helicopters, the 105 light gun and many of the light arms regularly carried and used by Prime Defence personnel.


Intelligence, Surveillance, Target and Reconnaisance (ISTAR)
Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) equipment includes image-intensifying goggles, lightweight thermal imagers and laser target markers. Thermal imaging (TI) turns heat into light – allowing the user to see through darkness, rain or undergrowth. Body heat makes people appear bright: vehicles are visible by the heat from their engines – or even from warm tyres. LION is a lightweight thermal imager used at platoon level to detect targets at medium range, while Sophie is a long-range system usually deployed at company level. TADS is a thermal imaging sight which can be fitted to the long-range L96 Sniper Rifle used by sniper teams. Larger and more powerful thermal imagers are Spyglass and OTIS, which is used by the British Army and is normally mounted on the Warrior Observation Post Vehicle.

IT and Computer Forensics
Prime Defence work with GSS Guidance Encase forensic software and which is used by all the leading police and intelligence services around the World.

Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
Compact transportable and man-pack satellite ground stations, to provide communications links for headquarters or small groups located in remote parts,

Counter Surveillance
Whether in our personal or our business lives everyone is at risk of having their privacy jeopardised. Today, more than ever, equipment is available that makes it simple to listen in to conversations and telephone calls – after all we should know! Many of our clients look for equipment to ensure that those who want to invade our privacy are prevented from doing so. We use a range of devices which for security reasons we shall not describe here.

Clansman
Clansman is the in-service family of tactical radios which the British Army currently uses to provide communications from formation headquarters forward to the fighting units.

Checkpoint Security Technology
Metal Detectors, Under Vehicle Search Cameras and Road Blockers are essential tools against would be car bombers and insurgents. Checkpoint Security Technology specialises in commercial and military checkpoint high-security walk-through metal detectors, under-vehicle search cameras, road blockers and GPS jammers.

Hand held Metal Detectors
The high-performance multi-function hand-held metal detector ProWand is used in accompaniment with the walk-through metal detector to locate prohibited metals accurately. It has an external recharge jack to recharge the battery and a vibration function for silent operation. The presence of metal will be indicated by an audio warning tone and a red light coming on.

The sensitivity of the ProWand hand-held metal detector is adjustable: a penknife will be detected at 4in on low sensitivity and 6in on optimum sensitivity. Its low-consumption design saves on battery power.

Under Vehicle search Cameras
With sharp view LCD display and moveable camera parts the VehiCheck lightweight under-vehicle search camera is a highly efficient checkpoint security product for inspecting the undercarriage of vehicles. The system was created to provide a method to quickly and easily visualise the entire underside of a vehicle.

Covert Cameras
We use a number of these to set up and monitor people, places and vehicles during undercover operations.

Also see Covert Security Operations
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