Security guard services in Sherman Oaks for aviation businesses around Sherman Oaks Airport, car dealers and shops on Sherman Oaks 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.
Sherman Oaks has two security markets stacked on top of each other. South of Ventura Boulevard sit hillside homes on long private driveways, the kind organised burglary crews have been working across the western San Fernando Valley through 2024 and 2025. North of it, apartment blocks, offices and a retail strip run on ordinary commercial problems: garages, lobbies, deliveries and closing time.
Residential clients here usually want the same two things. Something visible on the street at the hours crews actually work, and a written record they can hand to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) when something happens.
CAL Security Group is licensed as a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) by California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), and every officer we send is unarmed.
The pattern local coverage has described through 2024 and 2025 is consistent: crews work several homes in one neighbourhood, arrive by car, watch first, enter at the back, and leave quickly. In August 2024 a Sherman Oaks home invasion on Greenleaf Street ended with three arrests after suspects were tracked out of the area, and neighbours told reporters the street had been hit more than once.
What a private officer does not do is chase, detain or confront somebody inside a house. Officers observe, document, make themselves visible and call police. Several neighbouring households sharing one patrol is both the cheapest and the most effective arrangement on a hillside street.
Long driveways, mature landscaping and gates that hide the front door from the road. Patrol rounds with a walk of the gate line, plus escorts and standing cover during an empty-house period or a renovation.
Restaurants, shops and services along a corridor that stays busy into the evening. Door presence for the venues that need it, and shared patrol stops for the blocks that only need a look after closing.
Restaurant security →Office buildings with structured parking that empties after six. Lobby and visitor control by day, garage and perimeter rounds at night, with contractors signed in and out.
Office security →Dense buildings on Moorpark, Dickens and Riverside with subterranean garages. Package theft, tailgating through gates and cars broken into on the lower levels are the standing complaints.
Apartment security →Hillside remodels leave material, tools and open structures on site for months. A night officer while the house is open, then patrol stops once it locks.
Construction security →Owners travelling, homes between tenants or a listing sitting empty. Logged checks at varied times, with mail, gates, lights and anything moved recorded in writing.
Vacant property →Sherman Oaks is about 12 miles northwest of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
Sherman Oaks is part of the City of Los Angeles, so the city's alarm ordinance applies: after two false alarms in 365 days an address goes to broadcast-and-file, where LAPD looks for verification of an actual entry before a unit is committed. For a hillside house with a large alarm system, that threshold arrives faster than people expect.
A patrol officer holding your codes can attend, walk the property, and tell a real entry from a cat on a motion sensor. The call is logged with its time either way, and a permit holder can clear one false alarm charge every 365 days through the city's Alarm School.
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 wage floor here is the City of Los Angeles minimum wage, $18.42 an hour since July 1, 2026, not the state's $16.90. A residential patrol shared between several houses on a street bills per visit, which is why neighbours usually buy it together. Typical ranges by building type sit in the cost guide.
Three or four houses on one street turn an expensive private patrol into an affordable one. Bring them to the site walk.
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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