Security guard services in Ontario, CA for the distribution centers around Ontario International Airport, retail at Ontario Mills, events at Toyota Arena and the new neighborhoods of Ontario Ranch. Every officer is unarmed and holds a Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) guard card.
Ontario is a freight town with an airport in the middle of it. Ontario International handled a record year in 2025, moving more than 7.1 million passengers and 835,129 tons of air cargo, up 5.3 percent on 2024, and cargo volume kept climbing through 2026. Everything around that airport is built to move goods: distribution centres, cross-docks, trailer yards and the trucking operations that feed them.
Freight volume brings freight crime. Southern California is repeatedly named as the country's worst region for organised cargo theft, and reported thefts rose 5 percent in the second quarter of 2026. In February 2026, $1.6 million of stolen cargo was recovered in Ontario itself.
We hold a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) licence through California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), and our officers work unarmed.
Cargo theft in this region is rarely a smashed window. It is a truck that arrives with the right-looking paperwork, a trailer that gets hooked up at 2 a.m., or a load that leaves through a gate nobody was watching.
None of that requires an armed officer. It requires someone who does the same checks every time and writes them down, and a supervisor who turns up unannounced to see that it is happening.
Distribution buildings, air freight handlers and trailer yards working around the clock near Ontario International. Gate control at shift change, yard rounds after dark, and driver check-in through the night.
Logistics security →Hotels running on early flights and late arrivals, with parking open to anyone who drives in. Night lobby cover, lot rounds and a log the manager reads with the night audit.
Hotel security →Large shopping destinations and strip retail with big surface lots. Floor presence during trading hours, then lot and perimeter rounds once the doors close.
Retail security →Office buildings and flex space that empty by early evening. Reception cover by day, then patrol stops through parking and around roll-up doors at night.
Office security →Large tracts of new homes and apartments still under construction. Materials, appliances and copper are exposed for weeks, so gate posts and logged night rounds matter more here than anywhere else in the city.
Construction security →Carports, gates and shared parking, where vehicle break-ins and converter theft turn up overnight. Patrol timing that varies works better here than a parked officer.
Apartment security →Ontario is about 38 miles east of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Four activations is not many for a warehouse with dock doors, roll-ups and motion sensors across a large footprint. A patrol officer who answers the call, walks the building and cancels a faulty sensor keeps the count down, and gives you a dated log showing which zone keeps failing so it can be fixed.
Across California, unarmed guard work trades at roughly $22 to $40 an hour on the open market, and that range is published data rather than our price. Ontario has no general city minimum wage, so the wage floor is California's $16.90 an hour in 2026.
On a logistics site the hours are what move the number, and they are worth thinking through before anyone quotes:
Most Ontario clients end up with a mix: a staffed gate on the busiest site and a patrol route covering the rest. Each line on the quote shows its hours, so the trade-offs are visible. The security guard cost guide lists what each property type usually runs.
Appointment windows and shift times decide where an officer earns their keep. Send them with the site plan.
Tell us about the distribution center, the store, the event or the tract, and the hours when things go missing. We will walk the property and send a written quote with every post priced on its own line.
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