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Entrances and Routes
Every entrance, gate, loading door and garage ramp in use, and the paths people take between them.
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Risk Assessment and Security Planning
A review of your entrances, hours, cameras and main concerns that ends in clear coverage options for your property.
What the Assessment Reviews
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Hours and Activity
When the property is busiest and quietest, from opening and deliveries to shift changes and closing.
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Existing Cameras
What each camera view shows, who watches it today and which hours it leaves uncovered.
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Coverage Options
Findings matched to posts, patrol routes and camera hours, so you can see what each part looks after.
View detailsStarting with what the property already knows
A useful assessment begins with the people who know the property best. HALO reviews access points, operating hours, people and vehicle flow, and the priority areas the property contact identifies, then matches those findings to practical coverage options.
The outcome might be a staffed post with on-site personnel, a patrol route, observation of existing camera views, or a mix of all three, scheduled around opening, deliveries, customer traffic and closing.
Booking an assessment
Booking starts on the quote form. Name the property, the hours that worry you and your main concern, and mention that you would like an assessment. HALO follows up to arrange the review with the person who knows the site best, usually a facility manager, store manager or building engineer.
What comes back is a set of coverage options tied to specific entrances, routes and hours, each with its price in your quote, so the review leads straight to a decision. To get ready, the guide to preparing for a security assessment lists the documents and people worth having on hand.
What the review looks at, hour by hour
A security review is an on-site look at the property and a conversation about how it runs: where people and vehicles enter, which spaces sit empty after hours and what the property contact worries about most. It also looks at the property across the day: morning arrivals show the busiest entrances, midday shows where deliveries and visitors bunch up, and late evening shows which garages, yards and side doors go quiet.
The property contact usually knows these patterns already, even if nobody has written them down. Talking them through, with a site map and a short record of recent concerns on the table, turns that knowledge into posts, patrol checkpoints and camera priorities tied to specific hours.
From findings to a coverage plan
Each finding points toward a type of coverage. A busy main entrance points to a staffed post, scattered quiet areas point to a patrol route, and well-placed existing cameras point to live remote video monitoring. Hours follow the property’s rhythm, from short closing-period coverage to overnight or 24-hour schedules.
The plan is written in terms of services the property recognizes, such as retail theft prevention, event security or office coverage, so the property contact can see exactly which entrances, routes and hours each part of the plan looks after.
When to revisit the plan
Properties change, and coverage should change with them. A new tenant with late hours, a lobby renovation, a construction project next door or a new event calendar each shift where activity concentrates. Revisiting the review after a change like that keeps posts and patrol routes aligned with the property as it runs today.
A research building in Palo Alto might revisit its plan when labs expand into new space, and a retail center before its busiest season. Either way, the review starts again from the property contact’s knowledge of the site.
What the coverage in a security plan costs
The on-site security review itself is free when HALO quotes your guard coverage. Coverage that comes out of an assessment is priced like any other HALO plan. Market rates for 2026 put unarmed coverage across the region at about $36 to $50 an hour, and mobile patrol is billed for the time spent on site, with five minutes the least any visit is charged. The security guard cost guide works through posts, patrols and camera plans, including a daytime post weighed against overnight patrol visits.
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Common questions
What does a security risk assessment look at?
Access points, operating hours, people and vehicle flow, and the priority areas named by the property contact.
How much does the on-site review cost with HALO?
Nothing extra. The on-site security review is free when HALO quotes your guard coverage.
Is a risk assessment worthwhile for a property that already has guards?
Yes. A review checks whether current posts, patrol routes and hours still match how the property runs, and points out quiet areas or busy periods that have no coverage today.
Does the review look at our existing cameras?
Yes. The review notes which camera views cover entrances, parking and loading areas, so the plan can show where live remote video monitoring fits.
Related Private Security Services
A review can lead to camera monitoring, office coverage or store security.
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CCTV Monitoring and Surveillance
Live watch on the camera views a review marks as most useful.
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Corporate Campus and Office Security
Coverage for lobbies, workplace access, common areas, parking, and deliveries.
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Retail Theft Prevention
A visible security presence around entrances, merchandise areas, and receiving, with attention to customer traffic and closing.
Retail Theft Prevention