Security guard services in Burbank for production companies and vendors around the Media District, offices and stores downtown and at the Empire Center, and properties near Hollywood Burbank Airport. Officers work unarmed, with guard cards issued through California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) and post orders written for each site.
Burbank is its own city with its own police department, its own alarm rules and its own film permit office, which makes it different from the Los Angeles neighbourhoods on the other side of the hill. Warner Bros. and Disney are here; Universal is next door in Universal City rather than in Burbank, a distinction worth getting right when a location manager asks.
The work splits between the studios and everything that serves them: offices in the Media District, hotels near Hollywood Burbank Airport, retail at Empire Center and along San Fernando Boulevard, and residential blocks in Magnolia Park and the hillside streets.
CAL Security Group is a BSIS-licensed Private Patrol Operator (PPO). Every officer on a post is unarmed, and we say so before quoting.
Permits require a certificate of insurance with an additional insured endorsement as well, which is the part that catches productions out late on a Friday. We issue certificates naming the production and the city as required, and we can be booked to match the permit conditions rather than guessed at.
Studio-adjacent offices, post-production houses and parking structures with badge access. Lobby control by day, contractor escorts after hours, and structure rounds once the floors empty.
Office security →Retail, restaurants and a cinema block that stays busy into the evening. Floor presence during trading hours, closing-time cover, and a walk of the structures people park in.
Retail security →Large surface lots and anchor stores, where organised theft crews and vehicle break-ins are the standing concerns. Doorway presence and lot rounds, with reports police can act on.
Loss prevention →Hotels, rental operations and light industrial near Hollywood Burbank Airport, with guests and staff arriving at every hour. Night lobby posts and parking rounds.
Hotel security →Small storefronts on Magnolia Boulevard and the housing behind them. Lock-up rounds for the shops, patrol stops on the residential blocks where cars are parked outside.
Lock-up rounds →Houses on the slopes north of the city, plus renovations that leave material and open structures for months. Patrol at varied times, or a night officer while the site is exposed.
Construction security →Burbank is about 11 miles north of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Burbank's alarm rules work differently from the City of Los Angeles next door. Rather than moving a repeat address to broadcast-and-file, Burbank keeps responding and bills for it.
| Burbank alarm charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Initial alarm registration | $75 |
| Annual renewal with two or fewer false alarms in the past 12 months | No charge |
| Annual renewal with three or more false alarms in the past 12 months | $75 |
| Failing to register after 90 days | $20 |
| First two false alarm responses in a calendar year | No charge |
| Third and each later false alarm response | $150 |
| Third and each later false robbery alarm response | $200 |
| Changing your response status | $25 |
Figures published by the Burbank Police Department on its alarm fee schedule. The practical difference matters: a Los Angeles address that keeps generating false alarms eventually stops getting a unit, while a Burbank address keeps getting one and pays $150 a time. Either way the fix is the same, an officer who attends first, cancels the faulty activations and reports the real ones.
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. Burbank has no city minimum wage and no hotel worker ordinance, so the wage floor is California's $16.90 an hour, below the $18.42 that applies a few blocks away inside Los Angeles city limits.
That gap is real and worth knowing when you compare quotes across the hill: the same officer on a Burbank post starts from a lower floor than on a North Hollywood one. What moves your own number after that is hours and posts, and production work is quoted by shoot day rather than folded into a weekly rate.
Film Burbank wants three to five business days depending on the request. Book officers on the same clock, not after it.
Send the location, the dates and whether it is a stage, an office, a store or an overnight equipment watch. We will walk the site for free when the schedule allows and send the quote in writing.
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