Security guard services in Tustin for the bars and shops on Main Street and at Pacific City, hotels along Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Harbour homes and the industrial parks off Bolsa Avenue. Officers are unarmed, licensed by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), and briefed on written orders for each site.
Tustin is a small city with an unusually large redevelopment inside it. The former Marine Corps Air Station site has been turning into Tustin Legacy for years, and the November 2023 fire that destroyed the north blimp hangar added a long clean-up to that. The Navy's debris removal, a job costing about $129.8 million, was finished in 2025, the local state of emergency was rescinded on June 16, 2026, and the site has moved into redevelopment planning.
What that means for security is simple: Tustin has more open ground, fenced lots and active job sites than a city this size normally would, and those are the properties that lose material overnight.
CAL Security Group carries a BSIS Private Patrol Operator (PPO) licence, and unarmed officers are the only kind we put on a post.
A large site under development is a security problem in phases, and each phase needs different cover. Cleared ground draws dumping and trespass. The delivery phase draws theft. The framing phase draws copper and tools. Once doors and locks go in, the exposure drops sharply.
The sensible arrangement is a night officer through the weeks material is exposed, logged patrol stops on the quieter stretches, and a gate post on the days deliveries stack up. Every round is recorded with times, and that log doubles as the record your insurer asks for after a loss.
Historic storefronts, restaurants and small offices on short blocks with alleys behind them. A walking officer covers several addresses, and lock-up rounds handle the shops that close early.
Lock-up rounds →Open-air retail, restaurants and a cinema with large surface parking. Trading-hour floor presence and lot rounds after closing, with a written record of every incident for the centre's management.
Retail security →Big-box retail next to residential neighbourhoods. Repeat offenders are the pattern here rather than one-off theft, which makes the officer's written descriptions and timing worth more than a camera clip.
Loss prevention →Office buildings along Jamboree and the surrounding corridors, quiet after 6 p.m. Lobby cover during the day, perimeter and parking rounds once the floors empty.
Office security →Garages, carports and gates that close too slowly. Officers work the levels, watch gates shut behind cars and log how people got in, so the association fixes the entry point instead of arguing about it.
Apartment security →Service yards, contractor buildings and storage that sit empty overnight. Gate control at closing, rounds between rows, and logged checks of trailers, tools and equipment left out.
Warehouse security →Tustin is about 34 miles southeast of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Tustin requires an alarm permit: $10 a year for a residence and $25 a year for a business, handled through the city's third-party alarm administrator rather than at city hall. Alarm stickers are no longer required, and permit questions go to the Tustin Police Department alarm desk or the administrator directly. False alarm penalties sit in the city's published fee schedule, so check the current figures there before assuming what a repeat activation costs.
On rates, unarmed guards in California bill at about $22 to $40 an hour on the open market, published market data rather than CAL Security Group's rate. Tustin has no city minimum wage: a hero pay ordinance was proposed in 2021 and voted down, so the floor is California's $16.90 an hour in 2026.
What decides a Tustin quote is the phase and the hours. A job site at the delivery stage needs more coverage than the same site three months later. A retail centre needs trading hours plus a closing round. An office park often needs nothing but a patrol route. Each is a separate line on the quote, with hours shown, and our cost guide lists ranges by property type.
Delivery dates and lock-up dates decide the coverage. With those we can taper the hours instead of billing a flat rate all year.
Let us know what you run, a Main Street bar, a PCH hotel, a Harbour HOA or an industrial site off Gothard, and which dates or hours worry you. We will walk the property and send a written quote.
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