Security Guards for Private Estates
A gate, grounds and a household to protect, on the owner's terms, with a discreet daily report to whoever the owner names.
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What a private estate deals with
A known address
Large houses are known: to neighbors, to the trades who have worked there, to anyone who follows a car home from a restaurant. A gate on a code and a camera system that records are not a presence, and the drive is long.
Staff, trades and deliveries all day
Housekeepers, landscapers, pool service, caterers, contractors on a renovation, deliveries, the children's friends. An estate runs on people coming and going, and the owner is not at the gate deciding who is expected.
Events at the house
A fundraiser, a wedding, a holiday party. Valets, caterers, a hundred guests and the street lined with cars. Neighbors notice; so does anyone who wants to walk in with a tray.
Absence
The family travels. The house is dark for weeks, the staff hours are reduced and the mail piles up. A house that is known to be empty is a house that gets tried.
On the owner’s terms
An estate post is written for one household. The owner or the family office decides the hours, the position, the uniform, the level of visibility from the street, who receives the report and what it contains. Price Protection’s supervisor walks the property with the estate manager, learns how the household runs, and writes post orders that restate its rules as instructions: who is on the standing list, how the day’s visitors are added, where deliveries go, which doors and gates are the officer’s to check, what is logged and what is not.
The gate and the grounds
The gate is the post: every arrival checked against the list, every unannounced arrival held while the house is called, every departure logged. Between arrivals the grounds are walked, with the perimeter, the rear gates, the outbuildings, the pool house and the garages as checkpoints, and the household’s cameras watched from the gatehouse. On acreage properties the rounds are driven. The officer holds only the keys and codes the post orders assign and hands them over at each shift change with a signature.
Absences, renovations and events
When the family travels, the post continues or a patrol takes over, with the estate manager told daily what the grounds looked like. During a renovation the contractor’s crew is admitted by the schedule and logged in and out, the hours are kept and the work area is checked at the end of each day. For an event, coverage is planned with the estate manager and the caterer: the gate, the street, the valet area, the grounds and the house’s service entrances, from setup through breakdown, with officers briefed on the guest list and the household’s wishes.
Discretion
Officers assigned to an estate are selected for it and stay on it, so the household sees the same people. The report records what the post requires and nothing about the household beyond that, goes to the person the owner names by the method the owner prefers, and is not shared. Post orders for an estate are held by the officers on the post and the supervisor.
Starting a post
Dispatch, or a call to the office, begins with a conversation with the owner, the family office or the estate manager about what the household needs. The supervisor walks the property, proposes the hours and the coverage with the reasons stated, writes the post orders and starts the post on the agreed day.
How we cover it
Every service, applied to this post.
- Unarmed security guards
An unarmed officer at the gate or the gatehouse for the hours the owner chooses, controlling entry by the household's list, receiving deliveries, walking the grounds on rounds and keeping a discreet log. Officers are chosen for the post and stay on it.
- Armed security guards
Where the owner's circumstances warrant it, a commissioned armed officer at the gate or on the grounds, positioned and instructed by post orders written with the owner or the family office. Armed coverage is proposed with the reason stated, never by default.
- Access control
The household's staff list, the standing trades and the day's expected visitors are the basis for entry. Every admission and every refusal is logged. The officer holds no keys or codes beyond what the post orders assign.
- Vehicle patrol
For acreage estates and for periods when the family is away, a marked patrol drives the perimeter, the outbuildings, the pool house and the drive on a varied schedule, gets out to check doors and gates, and logs each round.
- Incident reporting
A daily report to the person the owner names, by the method the owner prefers, listing admissions, refusals, deliveries, rounds and anything unusual on the grounds, and nothing about the household beyond what the post requires.
A typical post
What a shift looks like here.
The day officer opens the gatehouse with the household's list: the housekeeper at eight, the landscapers at nine, a piano tuner at eleven the estate manager added yesterday, a furniture delivery in the afternoon. Each is checked in with the time and directed where the household wants them. A courier without a name on the list is held at the gate while the house is called.
Between arrivals the officer walks the grounds: the perimeter fence and the rear gate to the bayou trail, the pool house, the garage doors, the guest house that is closed this month. The cameras are watched from the gatehouse between rounds. A car that slows at the gate twice in an hour has its plate logged.
In the evening the trades leave and are logged out, the gate is checked, the exterior lighting is confirmed on and the report is written for the estate manager: admitted, refused, deliveries received, the rounds, the car at the gate. Nothing about the family is recorded beyond the post's needs.
Reporting
What the daily report covers here
Every client receives a written report each day, and officer performance is reviewed and documented daily. This is what the report records on this kind of post.
- Staff, trades and visitors admitted and departed, with times
- Refusals and unannounced arrivals, with the outcome
- Deliveries received at the gate and where they were taken
- Grounds rounds: perimeter, gates, outbuildings, pool house, lighting
- Vehicles of interest at the gate or on the street, with plates
- Contractor activity on a renovation, including hours kept
- Anything the estate manager asked the post to watch for
How discreet is the post?
The officer wears the uniform the owner prefers, works from the gatehouse or the position the owner chooses, and records only what the post requires. Reports go to the person the owner names and to nobody else. Officers assigned to estates are selected for the post and stay on it.
Armed or unarmed?
Most estates are served by an unarmed officer at the gate and on the grounds. Where the owner's circumstances warrant it, the company proposes a commissioned officer with the reason stated and the positioning agreed. Price Protection has staffed armed posts since it was established.
Can you cover the house while the family travels?
Yes. A gate post can continue, or a patrol can check the grounds and outbuildings on a varied schedule with rounds logged, with the estate manager receiving the report daily. The post orders say who is allowed on the property during the absence.
Do you provide security for events at the house?
Yes. Event coverage is planned with the estate manager and the caterer: the gate, the street, the valet area, the grounds and the house's back-of-house entrances, for the hours of the event and the setup and breakdown.
Who writes the post orders?
Price Protection's supervisor, with the owner, the family office or the estate manager, from a walk of the property. The household's rules are restated as instructions and nothing in them is shared beyond the officers on the post.
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