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Free security tools, templates and checklists
Every calculator, data tool, report form and printable checklist HALO has built for the people who run offices, rental properties and facilities sits on this one page, so you can price coverage, size up risk and run a post without hunting through guides.
What is on this page
Four interactive tools, a coverage-hours chart and six downloads, grouped by the job they help with. Some help before you hire a guard, such as budgeting a post or reading local crime figures. Others are the paperwork a running post depends on: shift logs, incident reports, handoff sheets and written plans.
Each one is free to use and lives on its own page, ready to open or download whenever you need it.
Planning and budgeting tools
Security guard cost calculator: pick an unarmed post, an armed post or mobile patrol visits, then enter officers, hours and days for a post, or visits a night, minutes per visit and nights a week for patrol. It returns a monthly price range you can budget around and send with a quote request.
Site security self-assessment: answer 43 Yes, Partly, No or Not applicable questions in seven sections, from knowing the site through recovering after an incident, and get a percent score for each section plus a list of the No answers to start on. You can print it or work through it on paper.
Coverage hours planner: a chart that lines up six risk windows of the day and week against a business-hours post, after-hours patrol and 24-hour coverage, so you can mark which stretches your property really needs staffed.
Local crime data for coverage decisions
San Francisco crime trends by neighborhood: choose a neighborhood to see its leading incident categories from SFPD reports on DataSF and how the latest twelve months compare with the twelve before, drawn from complete months only.
Daly City crime statistics by year: a chart and table of the city’s yearly totals from the state Department of Justice, set beside San Mateo County, with notes on what the counts cover and how they bear on guard and patrol planning.
Report forms you can edit (Word, Excel and PDF)
Daily activity report (DAR) template: a shift log with a header, time-stamped entries, patrol rounds, visitors and vehicles, hazards, keys and equipment, and a closing summary. Comes as a printable PDF, a Word file and an Excel sheet.
Security incident report template: one form that takes an officer from incident type, people and witnesses through a time-ordered narrative, actions, notifications, evidence and follow-up to the signatures. Download it as PDF, Word or Excel.
Shift handoff and pass-down log template: the outgoing and incoming officers record open items, post order changes, the key and equipment count, the shift’s incidents, who is expected and any hazards, then both sign. Available in PDF, Word and Excel.
SB 553 workplace violence prevention plan template: a fill-in plan for each work site, set out in the order of Labor Code 6401.9, with space for the people responsible, each plan part, hazard inspections, the training record, a violent incident log entry and plan review. Offered in PDF, Word and Excel.
Printable checklists (PDF)
Security post orders checklist: a one-sheet-per-post list for testing your written orders on post hours and equipment, shift duties and rounds, access and deliveries, logs and escalation, shift handoff and keeping the orders up to date. Prints as a PDF.
HOA security contract checklist: 14 rows for a California board weighing security proposals, grouped into the company and its guards, insurance, service terms and the board’s own steps, each marked as law or industry practice. Prints as a PDF.
Using several of them on one property
A typical planning pass starts with the data. Look up the neighborhood trends or the Daly City yearly figures, then mark the risk windows that matter on the coverage hours chart. With hours in mind, run the cost calculator for a post, a patrol plan or both, and take the self-assessment to see which parts of your plan are thin.
Once a post is running, the post orders checklist tests its written instructions, while the DAR, incident report and pass-down log give officers one consistent set of records from shift to shift. Employers covered by SB 553 can keep their written plan in the same folder.
Get help
Want a second set of eyes on what you have worked out? HALO’s on-site security review is free with a guard quote, and you can start one through the quote request form with your address, hours and main concern.
A few useful answers
Common questions
Are these security tools free to use?
Yes. Every calculator, chart, form and checklist on this page is free to use, and each one opens or downloads straight from its own page.
Are the Word and Excel copies editable?
Yes. The daily activity report, incident report, pass-down log and SB 553 plan each come as Word and Excel files you can edit, add your property’s details to and save, alongside a PDF for printing.
Is the calculator’s result a quote?
No. The cost calculator returns a monthly planning range and counts every hour at the same rate. Your written quote from HALO prices night, weekend and holiday hours once the schedule has been reviewed with you.
How current is the crime data?
The San Francisco tool draws a fresh monthly summary of SFPD incident reports from DataSF and charts complete months. The Daly City page follows the state’s yearly file, which the Department of Justice releases each summer for the year before.