CAL Security Group provides security guard services for commercial and residential property across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties and the San Fernando Valley.
A security guard service puts a licensed officer on your property to control who comes in, patrol the parts a camera or a locked gate cannot cover, deter theft and trespass, and write down what happened on every shift. CAL Security Group does that work for businesses, job sites, apartment owners and homeowners across Southern California, with unarmed officers, mobile patrol, fire watch and event staffing.
The company was founded by Chaudhry Younus, a U.S. Air Force veteran with 24 years in the security industry and a background in strategic planning and crisis management. Anyone can put a body at a gate. Deciding where that gate gets watched from, what the officer does at 2 a.m. when something happens, and who gets called first is the part that protects a property. Younus is active in community associations and veterans' causes, and he is reachable.
A guard company you can check before you sign: the license on the public record, insurance in writing, and a report after every shift that shows the work was done.
Put a licensed, briefed officer on every post we accept, supervise that post, and tell the client in writing what happened on it. If we cannot staff a post properly, we say so before you sign.
CAL Security Group Inc. holds a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) license from the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS). Ask any company you are considering for written proof that its licence and insurance are current before the first shift. Do the same with every company you are comparing.
Any business supplying guards for hire in California must hold a Private Patrol Operator license from the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. A guard card is not a company license. Some outfits show you one and hope you cannot tell the difference.
Every officer must be registered with BSIS and carry a guard card. Registration requires fingerprints submitted to the California Department of Justice and the FBI, and the check continues after the card is issued.
Guard card training is 40 hours: 8 before the card is issued, 16 within 30 days of starting work and 16 more within six months. After that, every officer completes 8 hours of refresher training a year.
California requires every licensed private patrol operator to carry at least $1,000,000 in general liability coverage per occurrence (Business and Professions Code Sections 7583.39 and 7583.40). A certificate of insurance naming you goes out before the first shift.
You do not have to take any of this on trust. The record is public, the search is free, and a company that hesitates when you mention it is telling you something. Our licensing page has the rest of our compliance detail.
CAL Security Group staffs everything from a single officer at a front desk to patrol routes that cover several sites a night. Each service runs on written post orders for your site and ends every shift with a written report.
Uniformed officers on a fixed post for access control and a visible presence at your entrance, lobby or gate. Every officer carries a current California guard card.
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Marked vehicle patrols on scheduled and randomized routes, plus foot, bike and golf-cart patrol for campuses and large lots. Every pass is logged with the time.
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Coverage when sprinklers, alarms or standpipes are down, or during hot work, with the timed patrol log your fire marshal will ask to see.
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Access control, crowd management and entry screening for private events and public gatherings. We walk the layout with you before doors open.
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Coverage for active and idle job sites, where copper, tools and fuel go missing after hours. Officers log every vehicle in and out.
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Officers who watch your cameras on site and respond to what the cameras pick up. A camera nobody is watching is a recording, not security.
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Unarmed close protection for principals, families and visiting executives, planned around routes, venues and schedules in advance.
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Retail floor and back-of-house coverage aimed at shrink, from organized theft to internal loss, written up so your insurer and a police report can both use it.
↗Call with the address, the hours, and the start date, and we will tell you what we can staff. A person answers the dispatch line day or night.
Most of what separates one guard company from another is whether the basics happen on every post, every shift, and whether you can check that they did.
Written post orders for your site, officers briefed on them before the first shift, and field supervisors who visit posts unannounced.
The dispatch line answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (323) 792-3061. An officer on post reaches a person, and so do you.
A report after every shift with the officer's name and guard card number, time on and off, each patrol round with its time, and anything found.
Every officer holds a California guard card, has cleared the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI fingerprint check, and trains to the state's 40-hour standard.
CAL Security Group staffs posts at many kinds of property, including corporate buildings, hotels, apartment complexes, construction sites, shopping centers, warehouses, hospitals and clinics, school campuses, auto dealerships and parking structures. The post orders change with the property: a hotel lobby and a solar farm need different officers doing different things.
Our officers work across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties and the San Fernando Valley, 117 cities and communities in all. Pick a county on the map, or search for your city to open its page.
A guard company based in the same region as your property can supervise the post in person, knows the area, and covers call-outs and missed shifts without a long drive.
An officer or supervisor based in Southern California reaches a post, an alarm call or a missed shift without a cross-state drive. Distance is the first thing that slows a response down.
Local officers know the freeway corridors, the traffic at shift change, and the theft that is common in each area, from cargo in the Inland Empire to package theft in the Valley.
Every officer holds a BSIS guard card, and the company carries the general liability coverage California requires of every licensed patrol operator.
A uniformed officer at the gate or on patrol changes what a thief or trespasser decides to try, and the incident that never happens is the cheapest one to deal with.
An hourly post often costs less than one break-in, one stolen load of copper wire or one fire code violation.
The dispatch line answers day and night, supervisors check posts on overnight and weekend shifts, and the shift report reaches you after every shift.
From the first call to the first shift, the work runs in the same order every time.
Call or email with the address, the hours and what worries you about the property. We will say which service fits, and which does not.
We walk the property with you: entrances, blind spots, lighting, fence lines and where deliveries come in. Bring any incident history. It tells us more than the floor plan does.
The quote is written and broken out post by post: hours per week, hourly rate and total. Before the first shift we write post orders for your site and brief the officers on them.
The officer works the post orders, a supervisor checks the post, and a written report reaches you after every shift with patrol rounds, incidents, visitors and maintenance problems.
Call and describe the property. We will talk through licensing, scheduling and cost with no obligation.
The dispatch line answers at any hour, and posts run overnight, on weekends and on holidays. Call (323) 792-3061 with the address and the hours, or email calprivatesec@gmail.com.
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