Security Patrol Rounds

Patrol is the easiest part of a guarding contract to stop doing and the hardest to notice. Nobody complains that the 3am round did not happen. They complain two months later, when a car is broken into on basement level three and it turns out nobody has walked that level in weeks.

So the round gets defined before it starts: which areas, in what order, at what interval, ending at which checkpoint. Each checkpoint is clocked, the round is timed, and photo evidence is attached where the post orders call for it. The data lands in your monthly report, so rounds completed can be checked against rounds scheduled.

The second job of a patrol is maintenance intelligence, and in a Klang Valley high-rise that is worth real money. A propped fire door on the escape staircase. A blown light in a stairwell. A sump pump that has stopped running in a basement car park, two weeks before the monsoon arrives and the ramp floods. Guards find those on the round and report them the same shift, which has nothing to do with crime and often covers the cost of the patrol on its own.