SOUTH MIAMI-DADE AGRICULTURAL BELT · LICENSED FLORIDA SECURITY AGENCY
Redland security guards: we dispatch from inside the belt
Security guard services in Redland cover groves, container nurseries, packing houses, equipment yards and, increasingly, farm event venues. Almond Tree Security Services dispatches from Homestead, inside the agricultural belt itself, which makes a Redland parcel among the closest work we take. We answer a new request within 2 hours.
License B# 3500420
License A# 3500419
Class D and Class G officers
Veteran Preference certified
Security Agency License B# 3500420
Investigator Agency License A# 3500419
Class D and Class G licensed officers
Veteran Preference certified by Florida
SEND US THE PARCEL
Get a figure for your grove or packing house
Four lines is enough to price it. We reply the same business day, and the figure is confirmed in writing before anyone sets foot on the property.
What helps most:
Acreage, and whether any of it is fenced
What is on it: crop, nursery stock, packing house or equipment yard
When: a harvest window, a run of nights, or an event date
Request a written quote
No obligation. We will tell you if a camera system is the better first spend.
FOUR SEPARATE PROBLEMS
What are you actually protecting on a Redland parcel?
Four things that behave completely differently, and most growers only think about the first one. Security guard services in Redland have to account for all four.
The crop
Avocado, mango, lychee and longan are high value, portable, and ripen on a schedule a thief can read as easily as you can. Redland grows tropical fruit found almost nowhere else in the country.
The stock
A container nursery is thousands of individually sellable units sitting on open ground with no doors. Palm stock in particular walks.
The equipment
Tractors, trailers, generators, and the irrigation pumps and copper line that nobody notices until the field stops watering.
The building
Packing houses and cold storage hold product, scales, and the only real lock on the property.
A loaded truck leaving a grove at 3am is worth somebody's night, which is why agriculture security is the work this company has done longest. These are four separate problems with four different answers.
DISTANCE IS THE WHOLE ARGUMENT
How close is our office to a Redland grove?
Closer than to anywhere else we serve. Our office is in Homestead, which sits against the belt, so a Redland parcel is about as short a run as this company makes.
That is not a marketing line, it is the whole argument for using us out here. Open agricultural land is the hardest thing in South Florida to cover from Miami, because the drive eats the shift. A company quoting your grove from Doral is pricing an hour of windshield each way before anyone has walked a row.
2 hrs
to answer a new request
4 hrs
to put an officer on the parcel
24/7
nights, weekends, harvest
3
counties covered from one desk
We answer a new request within 2 hours and have a licensed officer on site within 4. That is a new booking, not an emergency service. For anything happening right now, call 911 first.
ONE BELT, FIVE DIFFERENT POSTS
Five kinds of Redland site, five different jobs
Security guard services in Redland are not one job. The same acreage can need a route, a gate or a crowd plan depending on what is standing on it.
01
Groves and tropical fruit
Rows, no fence line, and a crop with a season. The job is irregular passes through harvest, logged, plus a visible vehicle during the weeks the fruit is worth taking. A standing post at the gate watches the gate; the fruit is four hundred yards away.
02
Container nurseries and palm stock
Thousands of units on open ground, every one of them liftable by two people. Nurseries usually want a patrol that actually walks the rows and a written log, because the loss is gradual and nobody notices until an inventory count.
03
Packing houses and cold storage
The one building with a real lock. Access control during packing, closing checks, and overnight cover for product and equipment. This is the most conventional work on the list and the easiest to price.
04
Equipment yards and irrigation pumps
Tractors, trailers, generators, fuel and copper. Equipment theft out here is rarely opportunistic; somebody has looked first. Patrol with unpredictable timing beats a fixed post for the same money.
05
Agritourism: the farm that hosts weddings
In 2024 Miami-Dade approved the Miami Redland Agritourism District, which began as a Krome Avenue corridor and was then widened. It lets landowners put up structures covering up to 5 percent of a property, capped at 2.5 acres, and five-acre parcels across the belt are now running wedding venues, wineries and breweries.
A NEW PROBLEM ON OLD GROUND
Now that Redland farms host events, what changes?
Nearly everything, because you have stopped being a farm for the evening and become a venue with a bar, a parking area and two hundred guests who have never been here before.
A grove at night is a deterrence problem: keep people off, log the passes, be visible. A wedding on that same grove is a crowd problem: parking on soft ground, one controlled entrance, alcohol, vendors loading in and out, and a field full of equipment that is now surrounded by guests in the dark.
Those need different officers doing different things on the same parcel, often in the same week. We run both: event security for the function and patrol for the ground it sits on. If you have added a venue to a working farm, that is the conversation to have before the season, not the week of the first booking.
RATES, STATED PLAINLY
What does a night on a Redland parcel cost?
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 Redland are priced by the hour, and the vehicle is billed separately.
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
Out here the multi-day patrol rate is usually the one that matters. Acreage is covered by moving across it, not by standing on one corner of it, and a route can take in more than one parcel on the same road. The South Florida pricing guide works through the hours.
Your figure is confirmed in writing before the first shift.
Harvest does not wait for a quote
Give us the acreage and what is standing on it, a grove, a nursery, a packing house or a venue booking. You get a written figure back the same business day.
WHAT WE ARE NOT THE ANSWER TO
When the Redland should call somebody else
Three honest limits on security guard services in Redland, and the first is the big one out here.
Forty unfenced acres is not one officer's job
If you want a guarantee that nothing crosses forty acres of open, unlit ground, one officer cannot give you that and neither can two. What an officer gives you is deterrence, documented passes and somebody who notices. Anyone promising to cover open acreage with a single post is selling you a feeling.
Cameras and sensors may be the better first spend
On open ground with long sight lines, gate cameras and driveway sensors often buy more per dollar than hours do, and they work every night rather than the nights you booked. We do not install them. If that is what your parcel needs first, we will say so.
You only need an hour or two
The minimum booking is six hours. For a short job, a single escort or a one-off lock change, somebody closer and smaller will serve you better.
WHO SETS THE POST ORDERS
Who writes the orders for a grove post?
Steve Garrison, founder, and Brian Kennedy, Chief Executive Officer.
Steve Garrison
Founder
Brian Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer
Post orders for agricultural ground are written against the parcel: where the vehicle sits, which rows get walked, how often, what the officer does when a truck is on the access road at 2am, and who gets the call. 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.
THE FIRST PHONE CALL
What a grower asks on the first call
The seven questions that come up about security guard services in Redland before anyone talks about price.
Is the Redland really in your service area?
Yes. Security guard services in Redland are among the closest work we take. Our office is in Homestead, against the belt. We answer a new request within 2 hours and can have a licensed officer on the parcel within 4, including nights, weekends and through harvest.
Is one officer enough for open acreage?
Not in the sense of guaranteeing nothing crosses it. One officer on a route can cover forty acres properly in the sense that matters: visible presence, the access points checked on an irregular schedule, and a written log. We would rather tell you that now than after a loss.
What gets stolen from a grove?
Fruit in season, nursery stock year round, and equipment any time. Tractors, trailers, generators, fuel, and irrigation copper. Equipment theft out here is usually planned, which is why unpredictable pass timing matters more than how long the officer stands still.
Do you work harvest season differently?
Yes. Through harvest the crop is worth taking and the property has more traffic on it, so cover usually moves from a couple of passes to a sustained overnight presence. Tell us the window and we build the schedule around it rather than selling you the same hours year round.
Can you cover a wedding on a farm?
Yes. Agritourism events need parking control, one managed entrance, and officers who understand there is working equipment in the dark beyond the lights. We run event security and patrol as one plan when a venue sits on a working parcel.
Does a grove need a post or a route?
Almost always a route. A posted officer covers one point; your crop is spread across the whole parcel. Posts make sense at a packing house during operating hours, or at a single controlled entrance during an event.
Krome Avenue to your gate: the real drive
Most Redland parcels sit off Krome or the section roads running east from it. From Homestead that is a short run, which is why we can sustain overnight schedules out here that companies quoting from Miami quietly cannot.
THE REST OF SOUTH DADE
Where else in South Dade do we cover?
The whole belt and the towns around it, from one desk in Homestead. The same officers who run security guard services in Redland cover all of it.
The full list of cities and counties is on the Service Area page.
Four lines about your land, one figure back
To quote security guard services in Redland we need four things: the acreage, what is growing or stored on it, whether there is a packing house, and whether you have started taking bookings for events. You get a written figure 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.