Security guard services in Northridge for aviation businesses around Northridge Airport, car dealers and shops on Northridge Boulevard, the industrial blocks along the rail line and the 405, and the neighborhood's large stock of apartment buildings. Our officers are unarmed, and the company is licensed by California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) as a patrol operator.
Northridge runs on a university calendar. Cal State Northridge enrolled just under 37,000 students in autumn 2025 across a 356-acre campus, and the housing, retail and parking around it fill and empty with the academic year rather than the working week.
The other anchor is the Northridge Fashion Center, roughly 1.4 million square feet with around 184 stores. Between them sit medical buildings, offices and a lot of multi-family housing, much of it rebuilt or retrofitted after the 1994 earthquake exposed how soft-story buildings with open ground-floor parking behave.
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.
Buildings with ground-floor parking, shared laundry and a tenant list that turns over every summer. Package theft, bicycle theft, tailgating through gates and noise complaints are the standing calls, and move-in weekends are their own event.
Apartment security →Around 184 stores and the surface parking around them. Doorway presence during trading hours, lot and structure rounds at closing, and a written record police and insurers can act on.
Retail security →The blocks around a 356-acre campus keep their own hours, busy at night during term and quiet through the summer. Patrol routes here work better than a fixed post, since the problem moves with the calendar.
Clinics and medical offices running long days, with staff leaving after dark and patients arriving at odd hours. Reception cover, escorts to the parking structure and after-hours door checks.
Medical security →Office buildings and flex space that empty by early evening. Lobby and visitor control by day, then perimeter and parking rounds with contractors escorted.
Office security →Soft-story retrofits and remodels leave buildings open, with material and equipment on site for weeks. Night cover while the structure is exposed, then patrol stops once it locks.
Construction security →Northridge is about 20 miles northwest of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Northridge is part of the City of Los Angeles, policed by LAPD's Devonshire Division, which covers roughly 48 square miles of the northwest Valley from its station on Etiwanda Avenue. That is a large area, and the city's alarm rules assume it: every subscriber needs an active permit, false alarm responses are billed, and after two unverified alarms in a 365-day period the address moves to broadcast-and-file, where the call goes out over the radio and an officer attends only at their discretion.
For a building with dozens of tenants and a garage full of sensors, that is not a distant threshold. An officer holding your codes attends, walks the property, cancels the faulty ones and calls LAPD when there is a real entry.
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. The City of Los Angeles wage floor of $18.42 an hour applies here. Student housing is usually bought as evening and weekend cover during term, retail by trading hours, and patrol routes per visit. See the cost guide for ranges by property type.
Move-in weekend and finals week are not ordinary weeks. Book those separately and run lighter in between.
Tell us what you have: a dealer lot, an apartment building, a hangar office near the airport or a shop on one of the industrial blocks. We walk it at no charge and send a quote with every post listed.
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