The case for hiring us rests on things you can check before you sign and hold us to after: a public license record, paperwork in hand before the first shift, and a phone that gets answered at night.
Why choose CAL Security Group over the other names on your list? Not because of reviews. We have no published client reviews yet, no wall of logos, and no star rating, and we are not going to manufacture any. The honest case for hiring us is shorter than that and easier to test.
You can confirm our state license yourself in a minute. You get the quote, the post orders and a certificate of insurance on paper before an officer arrives. After that, every shift produces a written report you can check against your own cameras, and a supervisor you did not schedule turns up to see whether the post is being worked.
The company belongs to Chaudhry Younus, a U.S. Air Force veteran who has spent 24 years in the security industry. His habits run through how CAL works: plan the post before anyone stands on it, write the plan down, then go and check it.
We send written proof of licence and insurance before anyone starts a shift. The record shows our Private Patrol Operator (PPO) license from the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), its status and its expiration date. Do the same for every company whose quote is on your desk.
California will not keep a patrol company licensed without a general liability policy of at least $1,000,000 per occurrence on file. We send a certificate with your name on it before the first shift, so it is never something you chase after an incident.
Each shift report carries the officer's name and guard card number. Put that number into the same DCA search and you will see whether the person on your post holds a current registration. Pick a report at random now and then and run it. It is the simplest way to catch a company filling posts with someone else.
Ring (323) 792-3061 at 2 a.m. before you hire us. Our dispatch line answers 24/7. A company whose night number rolls to voicemail while you are shopping will do the same when its officer needs help on your property.
Most arguments with a guard company come down to two questions: what was agreed, and what was actually done. We put both on paper.
If a report says a round was walked at 1:40 a.m., compare it with your own footage. We would rather you did. A report nobody reads trains an officer to write fiction.
An officer who is never checked drifts. That happens at every company, and the fix is unglamorous. CAL field supervisors show up at posts during shifts without calling ahead, so the visit reflects the post as it really runs: whether the officer is awake, in uniform and walking the rounds the post orders set.
Before the first shift, each officer is briefed on the post orders for your property, including the order of escalation. Some problems the officer handles alone and writes up. Some get a supervisor on the phone. A fire, a medical emergency or a crime in progress gets 911 first. The post orders also say which events are worth waking you for and which can wait for the morning report.
The chain has an end, too. The last call in it goes to the man who owns the company.
CAL staffs unarmed officers only. Carrying a firearm on duty in California takes a separate BSIS firearm permit, and we do not take that work. If your site needs it, hire a company set up for it and look up each officer's permit on the DCA search.
Watching alarm signals from a central station requires an Alarm Company Operator license. CAL does not hold one and does not sell monitoring. We respond to alarms and handle lock-ups as a patrol company, next to the monitoring provider you already use.
Lock-up and alarm response →We work Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura counties and the San Fernando Valley. A post our supervisors cannot reach is a post we should not sell you, so we will say no.
Unarmed guards in California generally bill $22 to $40 an hour. We price from the site walk and the post, not to land the lowest line on a spreadsheet. A bid far under that range is missing something, and it is usually insurance, workers' compensation or a registered officer.
Security guard cost guide →Book the free site walk. You get a written quote, post by post, that you can lay next to anyone else's and compare line by line.
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