A licensed temporary security guard for one night, a week or a season: after a break-in, between tenants, during a move or a layoff, or while your regular officer is away.
Temporary security guards cover a gap that has an end date. The risk is real but short: a door that will not lock until the locksmith comes on Monday, a building standing empty between tenants, a hard week at work.
A permanent post would be the wrong tool, and doing nothing would be worse. A short booking puts a licensed, unarmed officer on the spot for exactly those days, then stops.
If the need keeps going past a few weeks, we will say so and price the alternatives: a standing post, or patrol visits if the property only needs checking.
Storefront glass boarded up, or a forced door waiting on the glazier or locksmith. The officer holds the opening overnight until it locks again.
An empty building draws squatters, copper theft and dumping. A guard covers the gap until the new tenant moves in or a patrol plan takes over.
An officer in the lobby on the day a layoff is announced or a difficult termination happens. HR runs the meeting. The officer watches the door and calls police if someone turns violent or refuses to leave.
Doors propped open all day while crews carry furniture or gut a floor. The officer watches the open door and the staging area, not the work.
Holiday weeks at a store, move-in week at an apartment building, a year-end inventory count.
Your in-house officer is on leave, or a post opened before you could hire. Our officer works your existing post orders.
Where a short booking often leads next.
A standing post once the need stops being temporary.
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Scheduled checks for a property that needs watching, not a full-time guard.
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One-day events with gates, guest lists and crowds.
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Alarm calls and nightly lock-ups after the temporary post ends.
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When the reason for the guard is a sprinkler or fire alarm outage.
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A lobby officer while you fill a front desk position.
↗Locksmith not coming until morning, or a layoff announced tomorrow? Call now and we will tell you plainly whether, and when, we can cover it.
Short does not mean skipping steps. A single overnight shift gets the same basics as a year-long contract:
Gate codes, keys, alarm codes, and who meets the officer on the first night.
The start, the end, and whether the end could move.
One open door, a floor of inventory, a whole empty building, or people.
Power, lighting, a restroom the officer can use, and somewhere out of the weather. A 12-hour overnight post in a dark building with none of these is hard to staff.
The person the officer calls when something is wrong and a decision is needed.
From Ventura to San Bernardino, our licensed officers and 24/7 dispatch protect five Southern California regions. Click a pin or county on the map to see every city we cover.
Tell us the address, the dates and hours, and what the guard is there to protect. You get a written quote broken out by post.
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