Security guard services in Long Beach for the yards and warehouses that feed the port, Downtown hotels and offices, and apartment buildings from Belmont Shore to North Long Beach. Every officer holds a Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) guard card and works from written post orders.
Long Beach runs on cargo. The Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 containers (TEUs) in 2025, its busiest year in a 115-year history, and the yards, chassis lots and warehouses that feed it never close. Two miles east, the same city has high-rise lobbies on Ocean Boulevard, bars on Pine Avenue and rent-controlled courtyard buildings full of residents who want the garage gate to shut behind them.
One post type does not cover that spread. A gate officer checking trailer seals at 3 a.m. and a concierge signing in couriers at 9 a.m. work from different orders, and both get written for the address instead of the city.
The company works under a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) licence issued by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), staffing unarmed officers and nothing else. Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) handles arrests and crime reports; our officers observe, document, deter and call it in.
The list barely changes from one year to the next, and none of it is theoretical:
A uniformed officer does not fix a city. It changes what happens at one address, on the nights the address is exposed.
Long Beach is five or six different security markets inside one city boundary.
Truck yards, chassis lots, cold storage and warehouses west of the 710, working around the clock. The post is gate control: drivers checked in and out, trailer numbers and seals logged, and nobody walking the yard who cannot say why they are there.
Warehouse security →The city's core splits into the Ocean Corridor, East Village, the Promenade, West Gateway and North Pine. Office high-rises, the Civic Center and the courthouse sit beside residential towers and bars, so the same block needs a badge-checking lobby desk by day and closing-time coverage at night.
Office security →The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, the Arena, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Queen Mary and the new waterfront amphitheater that opened in June 2026 draw event crowds into shared parking. Event dates need entry checks and lot coverage that ordinary weekdays do not.
Event security →Small storefronts, restaurants with patios and dense housing on the peninsula. Officers here work on foot, and several neighbouring businesses often split one patrol so the cost per address stays low.
Commercial strips along Atlantic Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard with churches, clinics and family businesses that close early and sit dark. A nightly lock-up round and a few logged patrol stops handle most of what goes wrong.
Lock-up rounds →The 238-acre Douglas Park business park and the blocks around Long Beach Airport hold logistics buildings, offices and fleet parking. Coverage is usually a night officer at the gate plus rounds through the yard and the employee lots.
Long Beach is about 19 miles south of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Long Beach requires an alarm permit for any alarm system at a home or business that signals the Long Beach Police Department, and it bills the permit holder for every false alarm after the first one in a 12-month period. The fees climb quickly, which is why a patrol officer holding your keys and codes usually pays for itself at a property with a twitchy sensor.
| False alarm in a 12-month period | Fee charged by the City of Long Beach |
|---|---|
| First | No charge |
| Second | $158 |
| Third | $193 |
| Fourth | $235 |
| Fifth | $404 |
| Sixth and each one after | $548 |
Fees published by the City of Long Beach on its alarm permit page. An officer who reaches the property first can tell a real entry from a door that blew open, cancel the call before a unit rolls, and write up what was found. Where the alarm is real, the officer stays on scene and calls LBPD.
Most Long Beach jobs need one or two of these. The quote shows each post on its own line, with its hours and rate.
Gate control, driver check-in, seal checks and yard rounds for port-adjacent sites.
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Several logged stops a night across multiple buildings, shared between properties.
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A standing officer at a gate, door, lobby or store entrance for the hours that matter.
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Opening and closing rounds and alarm calls, which keeps false alarm fees down.
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Overnight and weekend cover for job sites losing copper, tools and fuel.
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Entry screening, crowd flow and parking coverage for waterfront and venue dates.
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Timed rounds while a sprinkler or fire alarm system is out of service, fully logged.
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Lobby desks in downtown towers: visitors, deliveries, contractors, badge checks.
↗Start with a night walk of the yard. Fence lines, lighting, gate timing and where trailers sit tell us more at 10 p.m. than at noon.
Rounds, contacts, write-ups, in that order. Long Beach adds two things to the usual list: hotel work carries its own city rules, and hourly costs move with the city's wage ordinances rather than the state floor alone.
Gate and yard rounds. Trailer and container numbers checked against the list, seals looked at, gates watched until they close.
Trespass contacts. People with no business on site are asked to leave, and the contact is logged with where they got in.
Hotel posts under city rules. Long Beach requires hotels with 50 or more rooms to give lone room attendants a panic button that summons hotel security or a manager, so the post orders name who answers it.
Wage floors that differ by property. California's minimum wage is $16.90 in 2026, while Long Beach hotel workers sit at $26.50 an hour from July 1, 2026, so a hotel post quotes higher than a yard post.
A report before the shift ends. Officer name and guard card number, times on and off, every round, every incident and the action taken.
Maintenance that creates the next problem. A gate that sticks, a dead light over the loading dock, a lock that no longer catches, all named by location.
Unarmed guards run about $22 to $40 an hour on the open market across California, which is market data rather than our rate. Our cost guide breaks it down by property type, and the quote you get is built from your hours and posts.
Fence gaps, dead lights, slow gates and blind rows only show up at night. That walk is free and it sets the post orders.
Send the address and your problem hours, whether it is a chassis yard off the 710, a hotel near the Convention Center or an apartment block in Bixby Knolls. We will walk it and quote it in writing, post by post.
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