Licensed handlers working with trained general purpose security dogs, on static shifts or as a patrolling unit. A dog covers ground a camera cannot see into, works in the dark and in the rain, and finds people hiding in a stack of materials or inside a part built structure in a fraction of the time a search on foot takes. The presence alone clears most sites, which is the point of it.
A dog works by scent and hearing, so somebody lying still behind a pallet of blocks in the dark is found in seconds rather than missed on a torch sweep.
The handler is a licensed security officer in their own right, so you get access control, patrols and reporting as well as the dog, not just a dog on a lead.
Part built structures, scaffolded elevations, basements, stacked materials and the blind side of a compound, all covered on foot by somebody who can go in and look.
Large open plots, sites with a history of repeat entry and jobs where groups are turning up rather than individuals, which is where a static guard alone is exposed.
General purpose security dogs, trained and worked as a licensed unit with their handler. They are working dogs kept and handled to a standard, and the handler and dog are trained together as a pair rather than a dog being passed around whoever is on shift. That relationship is the whole thing: a handler who does not know their dog is worse than no dog at all.
Yes, and the handler is responsible for that at all times. The dog stays with its handler and under control, and the unit works out of hours when the site is closed, which is when it is needed. Where a site has day time requirements as well, we brief the pattern so that anybody working on site knows exactly where the unit will be and when.
On large open sites, on jobs that have already been hit more than once, and where the people coming on are turning up as a group rather than as an opportunist on their own. A dog changes the arithmetic for anybody thinking about coming over the fence in a way that nothing else does, and it means one unit can properly search ground that would take two officers a long time to cover.
Yes. Plenty of the K9 work we do is short: a bank holiday weekend, a shutdown, the fortnight after a break-in while the fencing is being sorted out, or the period when the most valuable plant is on site. Units are booked out quickly around holidays, so the earlier you ask the more likely you are to get one.
Yes. Patrol logs, incident reports and anything found unsecured come to you the same way as they would from a static officer, because the handler is doing the guarding job as well as working the dog. If something happened overnight you will know before you get to site.
That is the strongest combination there is. The cameras cover the whole footprint and the control room verifies what is happening, and rather than sending a response from twenty minutes away there is a handler already on site who can be directed straight to the corner where the operator can see somebody standing. It turns a detection into a resolution.
Ultra HD analytic cameras supplied and installed free of charge, feeding a control room in Middleton that is staffed around the clock.
A rapid deploy tower that turns up on a trailer, sets its own feet, raises the mast and starts watching the same day.
SIA licensed officers on site, on shift, doing the job properly: controlling who comes through the gate, signing deliveries in, walking the site to a pattern that cannot be predicted from the fence line, and logging every one of it.
A marked unit visiting your site through the night at times that change every night, checking the perimeter, the gates, the stores, the plant and the cabins, and reporting on every visit.
Detection is only worth something if it ends with a person turning up.
Door entry and gate access systems designed, installed and maintained: video and audio intercoms, fob and keypad entry, automated gates and barriers.
SIA licensed close protection officers for individuals who need discreet, competent cover: a director dealing with a hostile situation, a visitor to a difficult location, an event where somebody needs to be looked after properly, or a period where a specific threat has been made.
Booked visits to your home or business while you are away, at times that vary, by a licensed officer who actually walks round the property.
Wireless site fire alarm systems, supplied, positioned and linked so that one call point sets every unit on the site sounding.
Heras panel fencing, solid hoarding and gates, delivered, installed and taken away again at the end of the job.
Security for temporary works: small projects, street works and highway works.