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Security guard services in Gilroy

Officers posted at Gilroy properties.

A background-checked officer stationed at your Gilroy building, store or yard for the hours you choose, watching who comes and goes and writing every round into a timed log.

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Security guard services for Gilroy properties.

A posted officer is the easiest kind of security to understand: one person, on your property, paying attention for the whole shift. Delivery drivers sign in, visitors get a friendly hello, and anyone hoping to slip through an unlocked side door finds someone already standing there.

Before the first shift, we walk the property with you at no charge and turn what we learn into post orders: which entrances stay staffed, how often the officer walks the building and the lot, and who gets called for what. The officer follows those orders, logs every round with the time, and a shift report is waiting in your inbox each morning.

Guard posts suit offices, retail stores, distribution buildings, apartment communities, data center gates and the front desks of treatment programs. Unarmed officers fit most posts; sites holding cash or valuable stock after dark are better served by an armed officer. When a full shift is more than a property needs, patrol visits through the night can carry the overnight hours instead.

Step by step

How it works.

01

Free walkthrough

We tour the property with you and note the doors, lots and hours that matter most.

02

Post orders in writing

Your written quote lays out the post, the hours and the rounds.

03

First shift

The officer starts on the date you pick, by day, by night or both.

04

Morning report

A shift report lands in your email, with photos when something came up.

A posted officer’s shift, hour by hour

Take an overnight post at a Gilroy distribution building. The officer arrives as the evening shift winds down, reads the notes left by the day crew and walks the perimeter before the last workers leave. Through the night they keep the gate, sign in early drivers, walk the docks and the trailer row on a steady rhythm and note anything that changes.

As the morning crew arrives, the officer hands over in person, and the shift report follows by email: every round with its time, every arrival at the gate and anything that needs attention that day.

How much does a security guard cost in Gilroy?

A posted officer in Gilroy typically runs $40 to $50 an hour, from about $36 for a quiet post with a short route up to $50 for heavy posts. Armed officers cost more per hour, and the armed security page has those figures; the unarmed officer page prices a full-time post.

Your monthly total is just hours times the rate. Say you run a contractor yard on the south end of town and want an officer from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday through Friday. That’s 55 hours a week, or roughly 238 hours a month. At $44 an hour, you’re looking at about $10,470 a month, and the shift report is waiting in your inbox when you unlock the gate the next morning.

What moves your rate? More duties on the post orders, like visitor sign-in, trailer checks and rounds of a big lot, push it up. So do weekend and holiday hours and coverage you need starting tomorrow. A quiet overnight post with a short route stays near the bottom. We walk the property with you for free and send a written quote with the hours and rate.

A few useful answers

Common questions

How does our officer spend a typical shift?

Staffing the entrance, signing in visitors and vendors, walking the building and the lot on a steady rhythm, and writing down anything unusual. The shift report shows all of it.

Can we start with nights and add daytime hours later?

Yes. You can begin with the hours that worry you most and build from there, and month-to-month terms make that easy.

Can we book only a few shifts a week?

Yes. You choose the shifts that fit your property.

Will the same officers work our post each week?

We schedule a steady group of officers on your site so they get to know your people and routines.

How do we choose between armed and unarmed coverage?

An unarmed officer fits most lobby, desk and gate posts. Our page on armed officers covers the situations where armed coverage earns its place.

Who hears about it when the officer finds something wrong?

The people on your call list, in the order you choose. An incident report with photos follows by email.

Who makes sure our officer sticks to the post orders?

A supervisor does. They visit the post for quality inspections, compare the log with the post orders and confirm the rounds happened as planned.

Is opening and locking up part of the post?

It can be. A post can start by unlocking the building and end with the officer trying every door.

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