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BSIS licensed officers for office and residential towers, covering the lobby, garage, loading dock, lifts and every floor in between, 24 hours a day.
A high rise is not one building to secure. It is a lobby, a parking structure, a loading dock, a bank of lifts, dozens of tenant floors, mechanical rooms and a roof, all sharing the same entrances and the same emergency plan. A weak point on any one of them becomes everyone’s problem.
We Guard Now provides high rise building security in Los Angeles for office towers, residential towers and mixed use buildings. Our officers are BSIS licensed, trained on your building’s access control and emergency procedures, and deployed across the whole structure rather than parked at the front desk. In the City of Los Angeles, non residential high rises must also have an LAFD approved Fire Safety Director or assistant on site during business hours, and our officers work alongside that role to keep evacuation plans practical rather than theoretical.
Whether you need a single lobby officer or a full tower team with garage and dock posts, we can usually have officers on post within 24 hours.
Tell us about your tower and its tenants. We will give you a written quote, usually the same day.
Our building security services cover every level of the tower. Most Los Angeles property managers start with lobby and garage coverage, then add dock, floor patrols and after hours posts as tenant needs grow.
Officers manage the main lobby, check tenant credentials and visitors, issue badges and control access to lift banks and restricted floors.
Level by level patrols of the garage, stairwells and lift lobbies, with escorts to vehicles after dark. Garages are where most tower incidents actually happen.
Supervision of deliveries, contractors and freight lift bookings, so nobody reaches tenant floors through the service entrance.
Scheduled and randomised rounds of tenant floors, stairwells, mechanical rooms and roof access, with GPS verified checkpoints.
Controlling who enters when tenants are closed, verifying late workers and logging every after hours entry.
Officers support your Fire Safety Director and emergency plan, directing occupants, checking floors and meeting first responders.
Officers staff the building command center, monitoring cameras, access alarms and life safety panels.
We write post orders around your tower, not a template. Tell us how the building runs and we will staff every level properly.
A high rise security guard spends the shift protecting a small city. Hundreds or thousands of people pass through the building every day, and the officer’s job is to keep the right ones moving and stop the wrong ones early.
On a typical shift, one of our Los Angeles high rise security officers will:
What a high rise officer should never do is stay behind the desk all shift. The lobby is only the front door. The garage, the dock and the stairwells are where problems start.
Both are towers, but they need different officers and different post orders. Getting this right is the first decision in any high rise security programme.
Comparison point | Commercial Office Tower | Residential High Rise |
Main concern | Tenant access, visitors, after hours entry, garage safety | Resident safety, guests, deliveries, privacy |
Peak activity | Weekday business hours | Evenings, weekends and deliveries through the day |
Officer focus | Access control, badges, dock and contractor supervision | Guest verification, packages, resident relations |
Fire Safety Director | Required on site in business hours for non residential high rises in the City of LA | Different rules apply to residential towers |
Tone | Professional and procedural | Warm, familiar and discreet |
Typical posts | Lobby, garage, dock, command center | Front desk, garage, amenity patrols |
Commercial towers need officers who can manage many tenant companies, strict badge rules, busy loading docks and after hours entry, all to a consistent procedure.
Residential towers need officers who can look after residents and guests warmly while still stopping strangers, and who can handle packages and amenity rules without friction.
If your residential tower needs a front desk focused on resident services, that is our concierge security service. If your fire alarm or sprinkler system is out of service, the building needs a fire watch, which is a separate legal requirement.
Internal link: “See our concierge security guards and fire watch services in Los Angeles.”
Multi tenant towers in the Financial District and Bunker Hill with busy lobbies and large garages.
Class A buildings where tenants expect polished front of house and strict access control.
Office and residential towers along Wilshire Boulevard from Koreatown to Westwood.
Condominium and apartment towers needing guest control, garage patrols and resident focused officers.
Buildings combining offices, residences, retail and hotels, each with its own access rules.
High rise medical buildings with patient traffic, pharmacies and sensitive floors.
Single occupier towers where security protects executives, staff and the brand.
Public facing buildings with screening needs and visitor volumes to match.
Occupied buildings with contractors on some floors and tenants on others.
Standalone garages attached to high rise campuses.
Airport security guard services in Los Angeles for cargo terminals, FBO hangars, ground-handling yards, and airside support offices around LAX, Van Nuys, and Hawthorne, badge-controlled areas where documentation discipline matters as much as presence.
We provide high rise building security across Los Angeles County, including:
Tower coverage depends on officers who know the building, from the quickest route to each stairwell to which tenants work late. If you are comparing security companies in Los Angeles, ask how they keep the same officers on the same building rather than rotating new faces through your lobby.
We staff from the surrounding area wherever possible, from Downtown and the Wilshire Corridor to Century City and Long Beach, so officers can be relieved quickly and know the neighbourhood around your building.
Do not see your neighborhood? We cover all of Los Angeles County. Call +1 714-760-5385 and ask.
We staff the garage, dock and floors, not just the lobby, because that is where incidents actually start.
We staff for continuity, so officers learn tenant names, late workers and regular contractors.
Officers are trained on your emergency procedures and support your Fire Safety Director during drills and real events.
Consistent daily logs and incident reports you can share with owners, tenants and insurers.
Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614 with general liability and workers compensation coverage.
Field supervisors run unannounced checks. If standards slip on any floor, we find it first.
We do not publish a single hourly figure. A single lobby officer and a full tower team with garage and dock posts are very different assignments. Here is what moves the rate.
Round the clock coverage needs three shifts plus relief. Business hours only costs less.
More floors, tenants and garage levels mean more patrol time and sometimes more officers.
Commercial and residential towers need different officer profiles and post orders.
Lobby only costs far less than lobby, garage, dock and command center together. Multi post towers price better per hour.
Short term cover for renovations, events or incidents is available. Ongoing coverage is priced lower.
Nights, weekends and holidays carry a premium because officers are paid more to work them.
What we do commit to: one flat hourly rate quoted in writing before you sign, no administrative add ons, and no rate change mid contract without your agreement. If a tower quote is dramatically lower, ask how many posts it really covers and who will be in the garage at 11pm.
Call +1 714-760-5385 or request a quote online. We walk the tower, from garage to roof, and recommend which posts genuinely need staffing.
You receive post orders for each post, a shift schedule and a flat hourly rate. No vague estimates.
We brief officers on your building and emergency plan and coverage begins, typically within 24 hours.
No long term contract is required. Whether you need high rise security guards in Los Angeles for a renovation phase or permanent tower coverage, both are fine.
Lobby and tenant access control, visitor badges, parking structure patrols, loading dock and freight lift supervision, floor and stairwell rounds, after hours access control, command center monitoring and emergency evacuation support.
In the City of Los Angeles, non residential high rises must have an LAFD approved Fire Safety Director or assistant on site during normal business hours under the city’s high rise emergency planning rules. Residential towers and hotels are treated differently. Confirm the current requirement for your building with LAFD.
Commercial towers focus on tenant access, visitors, loading docks and after hours entry. Residential towers focus on resident safety, guests, deliveries and privacy, with a warmer front desk manner.
Yes. Garage patrols are one of the most important parts of high rise security, because vehicle break ins and personal safety incidents are concentrated there.
It depends on the number of posts, hours, building type, tower size and coverage window. We quote one flat hourly rate in writing with no hidden fees.
Yes. Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614.
Yes. Our officers can monitor CCTV, access control and life safety panels from your command center and dispatch officers across the building.
The building will usually need a fire watch until the system is restored. That is a separate legal requirement, covered on our fire watch services page.
Tell us about your site and the risk you are managing. We will give you a straight answer on whether armed coverage is warranted, what it costs, and how fast we can start. Free assessment, no obligation.