CAL Security Group hires unarmed security officers for posts across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties and the San Fernando Valley. Here is what the work involves and how to apply.
Security guard jobs at CAL Security Group are unarmed posts. That can mean a lobby desk, a construction gate, a warehouse yard, an apartment complex, a fire watch while a sprinkler system is out of service, or a patrol route that covers several properties in one shift.
The work is mostly attention and writing. You walk the rounds your post orders set, you notice what has changed since the last round, you deal calmly with people who should not be there, and you write it down. At the end of each shift you file a report with your name and guard card number, your time on and off, every round and the time you finished it, and anything that happened, with the time and what you did about it.
This page lists no pay rates. Pay depends on the post and the shift, and we would rather give you the real figure for a real post when you call.
To work as a security guard in California you need a guard card, the security guard registration issued by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS). Getting one means you have to:
Take the courses from a provider BSIS recognizes and keep your completion records, because you will need them for the application and for any employer. The BSIS website has the current fees and forms.
The guard card is where training starts, not where it ends. California requires 40 hours in all, and most of it happens after you are hired.
Powers to Arrest and Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Awareness. Powers to Arrest covers what a guard may and may not do when detaining someone. A guard's arrest authority is the same as any private person's, and the course spends its time on the limits.
The first 16 hours of security officer skills courses, completed while you are already working posts.
Another 16 hours of security officer skills courses, which brings the total to 40.
Eight hours of continuing education each year for as long as you hold the card.
CAL officers are unarmed, so you do not need a firearm permit to work for us.
Before you work a post you are briefed on its written post orders: your duties, when each round is walked, who you call and in what order, and what you are not authorized to do.
Field supervisors visit posts during shifts without warning. Work every hour as if one of them is about to pull in.
The dispatch line answers 24/7. When something happens on post, you reach a person, not a voicemail box.
The client receives your report after every shift. Write it so a property manager who was not there can follow what happened and when.
To apply, call (323) 792-3061 or email calprivatesec@gmail.com with "Officer application" in the subject line. Include:
Keep your Social Security number and a photo of your ID out of the email. Nobody needs either one to answer a first inquiry.
Call, or email your guard card number and the shifts you can cover. Tell us which counties you can reach.
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