Most businesses and their staff are able to get through the day without a worry in the world about being in any physical danger, or at risk of being robbed, but this isn’t the case for all of them. Many businesses operate in risky enterprises with high-value items, such as jewellery retailers, or they could deal with a lot of money, such as a betting agency, a bank and others. There is even a risk present for businesses that control expensive R&D operations, which could have very valuable secrets on their premises. Of course, you also have airports as well.

There are things that all businesses and all homes should be doing for their security, provided they have the money to spend, but this group of organisations, that we can label as ‘high-risk’, need to do more. One of the best and most fundamental ways in which you can accomplish this rather broad, ‘more’, is by paying for a full-time security guard presence. For smaller operations, a single security guard could be the difference between somebody trying to rob your commercial residence and not.

For larger organisations, such as major banks, airports (and anywhere where there is a large gathering of people), and big corporate operations, you may need to have a larger force present full-time.

There are a lot of advantages to hiring a full team of security guards, not least the massive deterrence they offer. They can put in place better security procedures to ensure that your risks are reduced and that people remain safe. They can respond immediately to any threat, which means that you won’t need to worry about police response times.