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How to Choose the Best Security Guard Company in 2019

In New York City, security guard services play a critical role in protecting lives and property, providing crucial security services for businesses, religious institutions, events, and other vulnerable locations and assets. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to know which security guard company to choose to ensure that best results – and hiring the wrong company can be a costly mistake. Here are some important tips that can help you avoid any mistakes and choose the best security guard firm for your unique needs.

Understand Your Needs

When you’re preparing to hire a security guard company, it’s important to understand your goals. You should always consider what you’re trying to accomplish, and which security concerns you’re trying to address. That assessment will provide you with a clearer vision of the type of company you need to meet your security expectations.

Focus on Reliability

Once you understand your needs, you can then focus on finding a company that can reliably address your concerns. The best security company will be the one with the experience, trained personnel, and commitment needed to provide the top-level security you deserve. Your goal should be to find the company that has a proven track record of security success in every area of vulnerability you’ve identified. The best companies will exceed those expectations, and help you reduce risks you may have overlooked.

Evaluate Their Guard Training

Obviously, a security guard company’s success is ultimately determined by the quality of its personnel. And since security guards have to be trained properly, the consistency of that training should be of paramount concern. When you’re looking for a security guard service provider, ask about their training process. Do they train their guards themselves, or hire personnel trained at other facilities? What skill sets do they possess? These and other questions are vital to ensuring that the personnel guarding your location or event have the right training to do the job effectively.

Verify Licensing and Accreditation

New York City security guards are licensed by the state. Before you hire any security guard firm, you should verify its accreditation and licensing, as well as the licensing of any guards assigned to your case. It’s also wise to ensure that the company has the right insurance, to protect yourself in the event that a guard somehow becomes injured during his or her assignment.

Look for Flexibility

Flexibility is essential for effective security guard services. The best firms will customize your guard services to ensure that you have exactly what you need to meet your security needs. Depending on the job, an effective security guard strategy may require unarmed or armed personnel, security cameras and other technologies, and a response strategy for any number of unforeseen situations.

At International Security Services, we provide the best-trained guards in the business, backed by experts who can help you analyze your needs and create the most effective strategy to address potential security risks. We train our security guards at our own training school and hire only fully-qualified and licensed personnel with the skill sets needed to handle even the most challenging security issues. When you need a security guard service you can rely on, there’s only one company you should choose: International Security Services, New York City’s dedicated security experts.

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George Kozhar

George Kozhar is a respected security professional, licensed private investigator, and founder of International Security Services (ISS) - New York City’s dedicated security experts since 1999. Mr. Kozhar and his team provide a full array of private and business investigative services in the U.S. and overseas, VIP executive protection, armed and unarmed security guard services and training, and Fire and Life Safety Director training through the company’s Fire Science Institute.

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Property Security Evaluation Report

Your Individualized Property Evaluation Report

Your site’s individualized property evaluation report contains information and analysis that you need to properly manage your site’s security needs. That information includes detailed analysis of the crime rate in your area, site access and parking protocols, and existing security infrastructure. Interior inspection includes analysis of emergency exits, fire suppression capabilities, and alarm infrastructure for emergencies. Exterior inspection includes analysis of structural defects, property lighting, and potential vulnerabilities in building access.

In addition to those inspections, our analysis also considered environmental factors, potential risks from older trees, outside property maintenance, and nearby crime that may overflow to the area. We also examined emergency response planning, including fire evacuation protocols and information supplied to residents about proper evacuation process.

 

Pressing Suggestions


We highly suggest a camera placement along this driveway, as the overhead cameras in the back parking lot may not capture all makes, models, and license plates of cars entering in and out based on the angle they are recording from. The best camera placement would be at the green circle closest to the sidewalk/street.
The common area is easily accessible, but based on the angle that cameras are set at the front lot, anyone can enter the basement common area concealing the side of their face that is facing the camera. This is not to say that the camera arrangement should be changed, but it is highly recommended to have coverage in this common area as the common area is on a lower floor not visible from the sidewalk.


However, a few fundamental problems exist when it comes to access control of the back parking (a big territory). Even though only two issues have ever occurred there, the wide-open access point to that lot may need to be corrected sooner than later as there is a significant uptick in crime in the 62nd precinct.

Furthermore, there are two fundamental surveillance blind spots along the driveway leading to the back parking lot and every common area.

Lastly, however unlikely it may seem, tenants should have resources and a physical guide for situations that may require an evacuation. Whether it be a flood or fire, each tenant should know how to use a fire extinguisher and where to evacuate to during a flood regardless of their proximity to a shoreline.


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