NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE · LICENSED FLORIDA SECURITY AGENCY
Who is left in Medley at 2am? Security guards, mostly.
Security guard services in Medley are almost entirely a night and weekend job. The town has about 1,056 residents and roughly 1,800 businesses, and its daytime population reaches about 60,000. When the shift ends, eight square miles of warehousing is left to a thousand people. Almond Tree Security Services covers the gate, the yard and the building.
MEDLEY, BY THE NUMBERS
1,056
residents at the 2020 census
~1,800
businesses in the town
~60,000
people here on a weekday
8
square miles of it
A town roughly 57 times larger by day than by night. That is the whole security problem.
Security Agency License B# 3500420
Investigator Agency License A# 3500419
Class D and Class G licensed officers
Veteran Preference certified by Florida
AFTER THE LAST SHIFT
What a thousand residents leave behind at 6pm
Four things, and the first one is the reason Medley is not like anywhere else we cover. Security guard services in Medley have to account for all four.
Rail-side boundaries nobody fenced
The Florida East Coast Railway runs through Medley and services businesses along its tracks; its southern corporate office and the Beacon Station complex are both in the town. A rail-served building has a road side that is fenced, gated and lit, and a track side that is often none of those, because the railway is the boundary. That is an open edge on a building whose front is locked down, and most security quotes never mention it.
Truck gates after the last shift
A gate that twenty vehicles pass through by day is a single unattended point by night. The work is knowing who is still expected, what a late delivery looks like against the manifest, and what to do when a tractor unit arrives at 1am with paperwork nobody can verify until morning.
Trailers parked for the weekend
A loaded trailer dropped on a yard on Friday afternoon sits there until Monday. It has wheels, it is worth more than the building's contents, and there is nobody around. Weekend trailer cover is the most common thing a Medley operator actually buys.
Yards with no neighbours to notice
In a residential area somebody hears a gate. In Medley at 2am the nearest resident may be a mile away and the nearest open business is closed too. The ordinary background check on bad behaviour, other people, is simply absent here.
DETERRENCE VERSUS DETECTION
An empty town changes the job
It moves the work from deterrence to detection, and that changes what you should buy. Security guard services in Medley are bought for the second, not the first.
In a busy area an officer is mostly a visible deterrent; the presence does the work. In an empty industrial town at night, nobody is there to be deterred and nobody else is watching, so what you are actually paying for is somebody who finds out, and writes it down, within the hour it happened rather than when the first truck arrives at 6am.
That has three practical consequences, and they are what we will ask you about:
Irregular timing matters more than frequency. A patrol on a predictable loop is a timetable anybody can learn from one night of watching.
A written log is the product. On an empty site, the log is often the only evidence that anything was or was not disturbed.
One officer cannot hold eight square miles. For multiple sites a mobile patrol route is the honest answer; for one gate that matters, a standing post is.
Overnight building checks are logged, not just walked.
THE GATE AND THE HOURS
Three things and we can quote it
A written figure comes back the same business day, and it is confirmed in writing before the first shift.
The address, and whether the site is rail-served
The hours you need covered, and which nights
What is left outside overnight: trailers, plant, containers
Request a written quote
No obligation. If sensors would serve you better than hours, we will say so.
RATES, STATED PLAINLY
What overnight cover costs in Medley
An unarmed Class D officer is $32.00 an hour and an armed Class G officer is $40.00 an hour, with a six-hour minimum. Security guard services in Medley are priced by the hour.
Unarmed officer, Class D
$32.00 / hour
Armed officer, Class G
$40.00 / hour
Vehicle, parked on site
$10.00 / hour
Vehicle, engine running or on patrol
$14.00 / hour
Mobile patrol, multi-day contract
$44.00 / hour, officer and vehicle together
Vehicle on a multi-day contract
$8.00 parked, $12.00 on patrol
Minimum booking
6 hours
A standard Medley booking is a twelve-hour night, six to six, which clears the minimum with room. Several sites on one road are usually cheaper covered by the multi-day mobile patrol rate than by a post at each. The South Florida pricing guide works through both.
Your figure is confirmed in writing before the first shift.
SAID BEFORE YOU ASK
What we will not take on here
Three, stated before you ask. These are the jobs security guard services in Medley are the wrong tool for.
Directing trucks is not our job
Our officers control access and document it. They do not marshal vehicles on a public road, direct traffic, or manage a queue off the premises. That is a traffic-management contractor and in some cases a police detail.
An empty yard may want sensors, not hours
Eight unlit acres with nothing on it most nights is a case where gate sensors and a camera on the approach may beat paid hours, because they work every night rather than the nights you booked. We do not install them. If that is your situation we will say so.
Short bookings are somebody else's work
Six hours is the minimum. A single escort or a two-hour delivery supervision does not fit, and a smaller local operator will price it better.
WHO SETS THE POST ORDERS
What the officer is told to do out there
Steve Garrison, founder, and Brian Kennedy, Chief Executive Officer, sign off the post orders, and for an isolated night post those orders carry more weight than usual, because there is no supervisor on the next unit and nobody to ask.
Steve Garrison
Founder
Brian Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer
Who is still expected after the last shift. Which gate stays locked. What a late arrival has to produce. When the yard gets walked and in what order. What gets written down, who gets called, and at what point the answer is 911 rather than a phone call to a manager.
Every officer holds a Florida Class D license for unarmed work or Class G for armed, completes 40 hours of field training, and repeats de-escalation and harassment training annually.
The motto is Safety Before All.
FROM THE FIRST CALL
What a facilities manager wants to know
The seven questions that come up about security guard services in Medley before anyone talks about price.
Is an industrial town worth a standing post?
For one gate that matters, yes. For several scattered buildings, usually not; a mobile patrol route covers them for less than posts at each. The deciding question is whether anything of value sits outside the building overnight. If it does, post. If not, patrol.
Can one officer hold eight square miles?
No, and nobody can. One officer holds a gate, or runs a route between a handful of sites. If a company quotes you one officer for an area, ask which specific points they will be standing at and when, and the answer will usually show the gap.
Sidearm on an industrial lot: needed?
Usually not. Class D unarmed covers access control, logging and presence, which is the whole job at a gate. Armed Class G makes sense where high-value product or cash moves on a schedule, which in Medley does happen. We will tell you which your site is rather than default to the higher rate.
Does the rail line change anything?
Yes, if your building is rail-served. The track side is usually the least protected boundary on the site, and a patrol that only walks the fenced perimeter never looks at it. We walk it, and we note in the log whether anything has been moved.
What about trailers over a long weekend?
This is the most common Medley booking. Loaded trailers left from Friday to Monday are the single highest-value thing on most yards. Cover is usually overnight only, Friday through Sunday, rather than a continuous post.
Can you start before the night shift ends?
Yes. Overlap at shift change is worth paying for: the officer meets the last person out, confirms what is left on the yard, and takes the gate with the site in a known state rather than finding it cold at 10pm.
Do you log the gate, or just stand at it?
Both, and the log is the part you are buying. Arrival and departure times, vehicles, what was checked and when, and anything out of place. On an empty site it is often the only record that exists.
THE INDUSTRIAL BELT
The rest of the Palmetto corridor
The industrial belt around Medley and the cities either side of it. The same officers who run security guard services in Medley cover all of it.
Full list on the Service Area page, and commercial security covers how the work is structured for a facilities team.
Put an officer on the gate tonight
To quote security guard services in Medley we need the address, the hours you need covered, and whether anything is parked on the yard. A written figure comes back the same business day.
Office hours Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. After hours (305) 216-1818. Licenses, rates and coverage are listed in full on our Company Information page.