Security services by industry for the property types we cover across Southern California. Each industry page explains what a post there involves, the rules that apply and the services that fit.
Security services by industry start from what the property does all day. An office lobby, a hotel pool deck and a truck yard all get an unarmed officer licensed by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), but the post orders, the briefing and the shift report look nothing alike. Pick your property type below. If yours is not listed, call anyway: these are the property types we have written pages for, not a limit on what we guard.
One rule reaches almost every business. Since July 1, 2024, most California employers have needed a written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan under Labor Code Section 6401.9, with hospitals covered by a separate Cal/OSHA health care standard. The security post orders should line up with that plan, so we ask for it on the site walk.
Offices, stores, hotels, bars, dispensaries and car lots. The officer has to be welcoming and watchful at once: easy for tenants and customers, hard on people who should not be there. Cannabis retail carries its own rules, because state regulations require licensed retailers to hire or contract security personnel, and those personnel must be licensed by BSIS.
Lobby desks, badge and visitor control, loading docks and garages for single offices, business parks and high-rise towers.
Learn more →Floor and door presence for individual stores, plus patrols of shopping center common areas, parking fields and loading lanes.
Learn more →Lobby, pool, parking and floor patrols, noise and guest complaints, and a calm hand with an intoxicated guest at 1 a.m.
Learn more →ID checks, door control, occupancy limits and closing-time clear-outs, handled so the regulars still come back.
Learn more →Entrance ID checks, limited-access areas and a watch over deliveries and cash handling, written to the state cannabis rules and your local permit.
Learn more →Night posts and patrols for lots full of inventory, against catalytic converter theft, break-ins and cars driven off the lot.
Learn more →Homeowners associations (HOAs), apartment and condo buildings, and property sitting empty. Officers see the same residents every day, so manner counts as much as alertness. HOA posts follow the association's own rules; vacant property needs checks until it is sold, leased or rebuilt.
Gatehouse visitor logs, common-area patrols, pool and clubhouse checks, and parking rules enforced the way the board wrote them.
Learn more →Lobby and garage posts or patrol checks for trespass, package theft, carport break-ins and after-hours noise.
Learn more →Patrol checks, lock and entry inspections and a visible presence for buildings between tenants, waiting on a sale or waiting on demolition.
Learn more →Sites where the officer works inside a running operation with its own safety rules: forklifts and dock doors, patients and emergency rooms, cranes and hot work.
Gate logs, dock supervision, trailer and seal checks and yard walks for warehouses, cold storage, self-storage, plants and truck yards.
Learn more →Emergency department and entrance posts, visitor control, escorts to the parking structure and de-escalation for hospitals, clinics and medical office buildings.
Learn more →Gate control while crews work and overnight posts after they leave, against theft of tools, copper and equipment. Construction is handled as a service, with its own page.
Construction site security →Guests at a hotel, truck drivers at a warehouse, patients' families at a hospital, residents at an HOA gate. Officers are briefed for the people they will actually meet on that post.
Badges in an office tower, seal numbers and bills of lading at a dock, IDs at a bar or dispensary door, parking permits on HOA streets.
The fire code for fire watch, state cannabis rules at a dispensary, Cal/OSHA's health care workplace violence standard in hospitals, and the association's own rules in a gated community.
Closing time at a bar, shift change at a warehouse, nights and weekends on a construction site, and the first weeks a building sits empty.
Tell us what the property is and what keeps going wrong. We walk it, write post orders for that kind of site and quote each post separately.
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