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Scheduled check visits, alarm response and lock and unlock across your properties, at a fraction of what a permanent officer at every site would cost.
Most properties do not need a guard standing on them all night. They need somebody to turn up, unpredictably, several times between closing and opening, walk the site, secure what is open and leave a record that it happened. That is patrol security, and for the majority of Los Angeles properties it is the most cost effective protection there is.
We Guard Now provides patrol security services in Los Angeles: officers on a roving schedule making documented check visits to your property, responding when your alarm activates, and handling the opening and closing routine so your staff are not doing it alone in the dark. Every visit is GPS verified and checkpoint scanned, so you receive proof rather than an invoice and a promise.
Whether you have one property that needs a few visits a night or thirty sites across the county that each need eyes on them before morning, we can usually start patrol coverage within [ALARM RESPONSE TIME] of an urgent request and on schedule from the next shift for planned work.
Tell us how many properties and how many visits a night. We will price the route and show you the logs you would receive.
Patrol security is built from the components below, and most clients combine three or four of them into a single nightly routine at a single price.
Officers visit your property at agreed intervals through the night, on a randomised schedule so the timing cannot be predicted or planned around. Standard coverage is [VISITS PER NIGHT] visits per property per night.
When your alarm activates, an officer attends, assesses the site, checks the point of activation and reports back. This saves you driving across the city at 3am for a false alarm, which is what most of them are.
Opening your property for the first staff arrival and securing it after the last person leaves. Nobody on your team has to be alone at the building at either end of the day.
Each visit covers the perimeter, entry points, parking areas, service corridors, rear alleys and any specific location you flag, rather than a drive past the front.
Empty buildings attract encampment, copper theft and squatting fast in this city. Regular documented visits are what keeps a vacant property from becoming a much bigger problem.
One officer covering several of your properties across a shift. If you have a portfolio, this is the single biggest cost saving available to you in security.
Officers defuse what they can, call LAPD or the Sheriff where warranted, and notify your named contact in real time rather than in a report the following week.
Tell us the site and what has been happening. We will recommend a visit count honestly, including when fewer visits would do the job.
A patrol officer works to a route and a clock. The job is to arrive unpredictably, cover the site properly, deal with what they find and prove they were there. Unpredictability is the active ingredient, because a patrol that arrives at the same time every night has effectively published its schedule.
On a typical shift, one of our Los Angeles patrol security officers will:
What a patrol officer does not do is remain on your property between visits. That is the trade you are making, and it is the right trade for most sites. If your property genuinely needs continuous presence, you need a standing guard or a dedicated vehicle, and we would rather tell you that than sell you patrols that will not fix the problem.
The honest way to choose is by asking when your problems actually happen, and whether they need somebody present or somebody arriving.
| Comparison point | Patrol Security | Dedicated Officer On Site |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Vacant sites, closed premises, portfolios, overnight cover | Live premises, entrances, sites needing constant control |
| Coverage model | Scheduled visits across the shift, randomised timing | Continuous presence for the whole shift |
| Deterrent effect | Strong and unpredictable, but intermittent | Constant at the location |
| Cost | A fraction of a full shift, shared across a route | A full shift rate per post |
| Response | Attends on alarm or on the next scheduled visit | Immediate, already on site |
| Weakness | Nobody present between visits | Costs considerably more per property |
Choose armed if you handle meaningful cash or high value goods on site, operate in an area with a documented violent crime pattern, have already had a serious incident, or your insurer, landlord or contract requires it.
Choose unarmed if your concerns are theft, trespassing, vandalism, access control, after hours coverage or simply having a professional presence on site. That describes most commercial property in this city.
There is also a third answer, and it is the one we recommend most often. Many of our clients run a blended model, using unarmed officers for daytime access control and armed coverage only for the overnight window or the cash transport run. If you have been weighing armed or unarmed security guards in Los Angeles and cannot decide, that split usually gives you the protection you need at a cost that makes sense.
Internal link: “Need unarmed coverage instead? See our unarmed security guard services in Los Angeles.”
Overnight visits covering storefronts, rear service corridors and lots, plus lock and unlock so store managers are not securing a plaza alone at midnight.
Randomised night visits to parking, mail rooms, pool decks and laundry areas, which is where the majority of resident complaints actually originate.
After hours check visits and alarm response for buildings that sit empty from seven at night until seven in the morning.
Documented visits to empty buildings and lots, keeping encampment, copper theft and squatting from turning a vacancy into a rebuild.
Overnight and weekend visits to sites holding copper, tools and machinery, with reports your general contractor can file.
Perimeter, fence line and trailer yard checks around Vernon, Commerce and the Port corridor between shifts.
Randomised community patrols with visit logs the board can review, at a cost that works inside an association budget.
One route covering every building you manage, one contract, one invoice and one supervisor who knows all of them.
Aisle and gate checks for sites that are unstaffed most of the day and entirely unstaffed at night.
Overnight lot checks for properties holding enormous value in the open behind a low fence.
Regular visits for buildings that sit empty most of the week and have become targets for theft and vandalism.
We provide patrol security services across Los Angeles County, including:
Patrol is the service where geography decides everything. A route only works if the properties on it are close enough together that an officer can genuinely visit each one the agreed number of times in a shift. If you have been quoted patrol coverage by a company operating out of another county, ask how many other properties are on that route and how many visits yours will realistically get.
We build routes geographically and we cap them deliberately, because a route stretched across too many sites turns into a drive past rather than a check visit. It also means our officers know the streets, the usual vehicles and which division covers each address, which matters when they need a response at two in the morning.
Every visit is tracked and every checkpoint physically scanned. Unverified patrols are the biggest problem in this category nationally, because a drive past is invisible on an invoice. Ours is not.
A patrol that arrives at the same time nightly has published its schedule to anyone watching. Our timings vary deliberately, and the logs prove the variation.
We limit properties per route. A cheap quote usually means your site has been added to a route that was already full, and your visits become a slow drive past the front.
Response time is the number that matters when your alarm activates at 3am, and it is the number you should ask every provider to commit to in writing.
California requires a Bureau of Security and Investigative Services guard card and we verify it before assignment, alongside a valid driving licence and clean record. We operate under PPO #121614 with full general liability and workers compensation coverage.
500+ properties, [GUARD COUNT] officers, and routes built around how this county actually drives rather than how it looks on a map.
Patrol is priced either per visit or per hour of dedicated route time, and it is by a wide margin the cheapest protection per property we offer. Five things decide your figure.
The single biggest factor. Two visits a night and six visits a night are different products. More visits means less predictability and better deterrence, and it costs proportionally more.
Several properties in the same area share the route and the drive time, so the per property cost falls sharply as you add sites. Portfolio owners get the best value in security here.
A three minute perimeter check and a twenty minute full interior sweep are different jobs. Tell us what each visit needs to cover and the quote gets accurate immediately.
These can be included in a flat monthly figure or billed per callout. Included is usually cheaper if your alarm activates more than occasionally, and most do.
Seven nights costs less per night than three. Overnight, weekend and holiday hours carry a premium because officers are paid more to work them.
Bilingual officers, executive protection experience, plain clothes assignments, cannabis compliance familiarity or client mandated training all narrow the pool and affect the rate.
What we do commit to: a flat rate in writing, whether per visit or per month, with GPS logs and reporting included rather than sold as an upgrade. No mileage charge and no fuel surcharge. When comparing quotes, ask two questions of every provider. How many properties are on that route, and will they show you the GPS log from a real night. A provider who will not show you the log is telling you something.
Call +1 714-760-5385 or request a quote online. We look at the properties, what has been happening and when, then recommend a visit count and what each visit should cover.
You receive the visit schedule, what each visit covers, the alarm response commitment and a flat rate in writing. No vague estimates and no surprise line items.
We install scan points around each property, brief officers on your sites and the route goes live. GPS verified logs reach your inbox from the first night, not at the end of the month.
No long term contract is required to start. Patrol coverage is easy to trial, and we would rather you run it for a month and read the logs than sign anything on the strength of a sales conversation.
Licensed officers making scheduled visits to your property rather than remaining on it. Each visit covers the perimeter, entry points and any area you flag, and each one is GPS verified and logged. It is sometimes called mobile patrol or roving patrol, and it is the most cost effective protection available for properties that sit closed or empty.
It depends on the site and what has been happening. [VISITS PER NIGHT] visits per night is our standard for most commercial properties. Sites with an active problem, or vacant buildings, usually justify more. We will recommend a number honestly, including when fewer would do.
No, deliberately. Fixed timings are the fastest way to make a patrol useless, because anyone watching learns the gap within a week. Our timings are randomised and the GPS logs show you the variation.
Typically within [ALARM RESPONSE TIME] across Los Angeles County. An officer attends, assesses the site, checks the activation point and reports back to you, which means you are not driving across the city at 3am for what is usually a false alarm.
GPS tracking on every unit plus physical checkpoint scans at each property, producing a timestamped visit log with the officer name and observations. Reports are delivered digitally so you can forward them to an owner, board or insurer directly.
It is priced per visit or per month and it is the cheapest protection per property we offer. Cost depends on visits per night, how many properties you have, how long each visit takes, whether alarm response and lock and unlock are included, and the coverage window.
Yes, and that is where patrol makes the most financial sense. One officer covers a route of your properties in a shift, so the cost per property falls sharply. Portfolio clients run everything under one contract, one supervisor and one invoice.
Yes. Lock and unlock is one of the most requested parts of the service. An officer secures the building after your last person leaves and opens it before your first arrives, which removes the risk of staff being alone at the property in the dark.
Tell us how many properties you have and what has been happening. We will recommend a visit schedule, quote a flat rate in writing, and show you the logs you would receive. Free assessment, no obligation.