If you're staffing close-protection for private events in Manchester, you already know the problem: every client comes in with a different threat model, every venue has different constraints, and the SIA compliance gap between what providers claim and what they can actually document is wider than it should be. This guide is the framework that should exist before the first call gets made. It started with a real scenario. A 280-person wedding in Manchester. Guest list included a former government official with 2 credible threat communications on record in the past year. The event planner rang security companies across City Centre on a Thursday. Four days, multiple providers, none of them asking the same intake questions. Armed or unarmed. Detail or perimeter. Advance work or day-of. No shared vocabulary, no standardised risk framework. That's the gap this brief closes — written for the operators who actually build and run these deployments.…