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Patrol visits or an on-site guard?
Two good options for different properties, and how to pick.
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Helpful guides for Redwood City.
Plain-spoken guides for Redwood City property managers, business owners and builders, from patrol or a guard to fire watch, jobsites, shopping centers and clinics.
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Resources
Guides.
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What happens on a free walkthrough
What we look at, what to have handy and what comes next.
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Protecting a construction site
The gate, materials, nights and weekends, and fire watch.
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Fire watch: what to know
What triggers a watch, who orders it and how it ends.
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Choosing armed or unarmed security
Why most properties go unarmed, and the cases that don’t.
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Shopping center security basics
Walkways, parking, delivery areas and the holidays.
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Keeping medical offices secure
A reassuring front desk, safer parking and overnight alarm checks.
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Security assessment checklist
A plain list to carry around your Redwood City property, from the fence line and the lights to doors, cameras, parking and how police and fire get in.
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Video monitoring or guards?
Both keep watch over your Redwood City property, in very different ways. Here’s how live camera watching and an officer on site compare, and when to use both.
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Coverage hours chart
A planning chart for Redwood City properties: which hours need an officer, which can lean on patrol or cameras, and when a full round-the-clock plan earns its place.
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Cost calculator
Plan a month of security in Redwood City before you ask for a quote. This security guard cost calculator turns an on-site officer’s schedule or a set of nightly patrol stops into a monthly range you can take to your budget meeting.
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Post orders checklist
What a Redwood City officer’s written instructions should cover, from the post and its hours to rounds, visitors, reports, emergencies and the shift change.
Read the guideWhere to start reading
If you’re just beginning to think about security for a Redwood City property, open the guide closest to your question. Torn between a guard and patrol? Start with patrol visits or an on-site guard. Curious what a first meeting with us looks like? The walkthrough guide explains it step by step.
Builders, facilities managers, retail landlords and practice owners each have a guide aimed at their kind of property, from construction sites to clinics. Every guide ends with the services it relates to, so you can move straight from reading to the details. If you already know the service you need, the services overview and the property types page are the quickest route.
Bring your own questions
These guides cover common situations, but every property has its own quirks: a shared driveway, a gate that sticks, a tenant who works past midnight. Jot those down as you read. They’re exactly what we’ll want to hear about when we walk the property with you, and they shape the written quote that follows.
A few useful answers
Common questions
Which guide should a property manager read first?
Start with the walkthrough guide, then the guard-or-patrol guide. Together they show how a coverage plan comes together.
Is there a charge for advice before we sign?
There isn’t. The walkthrough and the written quote are free, and questions about anything in these guides are welcome along the way.
Do the guides talk about cost?
Yes, where it helps. The patrol-or-guard guide compares 2026 monthly figures side by side, and each service page lists typical Redwood City rates.
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