Service S-07 · Patrol
Construction site security
Overnight and weekend coverage for active job sites. Officers control access, deter material and equipment theft, and produce a written record your GC and your insurer can both use.
- License class
- Class D — unarmed. Class G available.
- Typical window
- 18:00 – 06:00 weekdays, continuous weekends
- Minimum post
- 1 officer, 12-hr shift
- Standard lead time
- 72 hours · same-day callout available
- Deliverable
- Shift report, photo set, access log, incident report
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What the officer actually does
The post order
Most agencies will not show you this until after you have signed. Here is the standing order our officers work to on a construction post, lightly redacted.
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Relief and briefing
Arrive fifteen minutes before shift. Take the relief briefing from the outgoing officer. Confirm gate status, lock status, and any open items from the previous shift before signing on.
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Opening sweep
Complete a full perimeter walk within twenty minutes of taking post. Photograph material lay-down areas, fuel storage, and any equipment left outside the fence line. This set establishes condition at shift start.
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Access control
No entry without an approved name on the daily access list. Every entry is logged with company, vehicle, plate, and time. Deliveries outside scheduled hours are refused and reported, not waved through.
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Interval patrols
Perimeter sweep every sixty minutes on a varied route and varied timing. Predictable patrols are the easiest thing in the world to wait out. Each sweep is logged at checkpoint.
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Equipment check
At 22:00 and again at 03:00, verify heavy equipment is locked, keys removed, and fuel caps secured. Copper, fuel, and small tools are the three things that actually walk off a site.
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Incident protocol
Do not engage. Observe from cover, position for a usable description and direction of travel, call 911, then call the TESS supervisor line. Our officers are witnesses and deterrents, not interceptors.
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Close and hand over
Final perimeter sweep and closing photo set. Brief the incoming officer or the site super. Shift report is submitted before the officer leaves post, not later that day.
Post orders are written per site, not per service. The order above is our construction baseline; yours would be adjusted after a walk-through for gate count, lay-down locations, and your GC's own site rules.
What you receive
Paper, not promises
Coverage
Where we run this post
Questions we actually get
Before you call
Do we need armed officers on a construction site?
Usually not. The exposure on a job site is theft of material and equipment, and the correct response to that is observation and documentation, not confrontation. Armed coverage makes sense where there is a history of confrontation on site or the site is isolated with a long law-enforcement response time. We will tell you which one you are.
Can you start tonight?
Often, for one to three officers, subject to the live roster. Same-day staffing is confirmed by phone rather than through a form, because it depends on who is actually available. Call the dispatch line.
Who is liable if something is stolen while your officer is on post?
Our officers deter and document; they are not an insurance product. What our coverage does is establish a timestamped record of who entered, when, and what condition the site was in, which is what your carrier will ask for. Discuss any transfer of risk with your broker before assuming coverage exists.
Do you handle the fire watch requirement too?
Yes, that is a separate service line with its own certification and logging requirements. If your site has a system impairment or an outage, that is a fire watch post rather than a security post, and the two are billed differently.