Mobile security patrols for blocks, car parks and garage courts across South London
Timed visits through the night instead of a full shift. The cover a residential block, car park, or garage court can use. A control room staffed 24 hours a day.
The problem a managing agent brings to us
The complaint arrives from a leaseholder. A group in the car park stairwell every evening. A garage court used for dumping, dealing, or sleeping. Bikes going from the cycle store. A fire door in the undercroft wedged open so friends can get in. The residents want it stopped, the freeholder wants it off the agenda, and the budget will not stretch to an officer on the door for twelve hours a night.
A mobile patrol is the middle option between doing nothing and paying for a static post: the site is visited during the window when the trouble happens, and the block gains a presence that residents and the people causing the problem both notice.
What a patrol visit is, and what it is not
A patrol visit is a timed attendance by an officer or a dog unit that covers the agreed areas of the site and leaves. It is not a static post, where an officer stays for the shift; see security guards. It is not alarm response, which is triggered by an activation rather than a clock; that sits with key holding and alarm response, and the two can be bought together.
How often a block is visited depends on the site, its risk profile and client requirements; it is set for your block at quote stage, not from a fixed package.
Dusk till dawn
Dusk-till-dawn cover means the visits are concentrated in the hours between early evening and early morning, which is when a residential block's problems occur and when nobody from the managing agent is on site to see them. Daytime cover on an occupied block is a different job, a concierge or an access-control post, covered on the property and block security page.
For a car park or garage court the night window matters most, because these are the areas with the least natural surveillance: no windows overlooking them, poor lighting, and vehicles that give cover. A visit into the garage court itself, rather than a drive past the entrance, is the part of the cover to ask about.
Officer or dog unit on the patrol
Officer patrol
Dog unit patrol
K9 security dog units →What we ask before quoting a patrol
- •Where the block or estate is
- •The hours you want covered, and over how many nights a week
- •The reason: loitering, car park damage, garage court misuse, bike theft, fly-tipping, a lease or insurer condition
- •Which areas the visit must reach: car park, garage court, bin stores, cycle store, undercroft, plant room, roof access
- •Whether keys or fobs are needed to get into those areas, and who holds them now
- •Whether you need a written record of visits for leaseholders, the freeholder, or an insurer
Frequently asked questions
Visit frequency depends on the site, its risk profile and client requirements, and it is set for your block at quote stage rather than from a fixed package. One bad stairwell needs a different pattern from an estate with three garage courts, and the hours the problem occurs in matter as much as the size of the site. Tell us the site, the hours, and the reason, and ask for a proposed pattern.
Get patrol cover quoted for your block
Send the site, the hours you want covered, and the reason. Ask for a visit pattern and a price for that block.
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