Answer
Can I hire security for a weekend?
By Price Protection SecurityReviewed TX DPS Lic #B09430601
Short answer
Yes. Weekend coverage is one of the most common requests Price Protection receives, because weekends are when sites, yards and buildings sit empty and when pools, venues and stores fill. A weekend post runs the hours you choose between Friday evening and Monday morning, with post orders, relief officers where the post is continuous and a report for each shift.
Two kinds of weekend
The empty weekend: a construction site between the last truck on Friday and the first on Monday, a truck yard full of loaded trailers, an office building with cleaning crews and no tenants, a vacant property that scrappers have learned is unwatched. The post is patrol, gates and the log, and the exposure is theft.
The full weekend: an apartment pool in July, an amenity center hosting a party, a retail center in December, a venue with an event, a church on Sunday. The post is presence, access, crowd flow and the log, and the exposure is disorder and the people who come with a crowd.
Price Protection staffs both, and the post orders are written for whichever weekend it is.
How a weekend post is scheduled
You choose the hours: Friday evening to Monday morning around the clock for a site or a yard, evenings only for a store, Saturday and Sunday afternoons for a pool, the hours of the event for a venue. Continuous posts are staffed in shifts with a handover in the log so no hour is uncovered. Recurring weekends are scheduled as a standing post with the same small group of officers, so the people on the property learn it.
What it costs
By the hour, with a minimum per shift stated in the proposal, at the armed or unarmed rate. A weekend that repeats is priced as a standing post. A vehicle for patrol is included where the post needs it.
Starting before this weekend
Dispatch takes the address, the hours, what has been happening and the access arrangements, and unarmed officers can typically start within hours. Post orders written from the call are completed on the first walk-through, which for a Friday start often happens Friday afternoon. The weekend security guards page describes the post in detail, and the weekend site security page covers the construction case.
What the officer needs from you before Friday
Keys, codes or a gate that opens; a place to park; a contact who answers over the weekend; and the list of what matters on the property, from the laydown yard to the pool gate. A weekend post that starts without those spends its first hours finding them.
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