Most guard schedules were set once, by somebody who has since left, against a threat picture that has since changed. After that the hours renew because the invoice renews. We lay what you buy over what you are exposed to and show you the difference.
Fig. A
A week of exposure against a week of coverage
Blue is staffed. Amber is exposed with nobody on it. This site is buying four hours a night on weekdays and nothing at all on the two days it sits empty for forty eight hours straight.
How it runs
Pull the real hours. The schedule as invoiced, not as described. Those differ more often than anyone expects.
Map the exposure. When the building is empty, when it is open to the street, when deliveries land, when the lot is full and when it is not.
Overlay them. The gap is the finding. It is usually somewhere nobody thought to look, and on most commercial lots that is around three in the morning.
Rebuild the shape. Options that keep your spend flat and move the hours, alongside what it would cost to close the gap outright. You pick.
What you receive
Your current coverage mapped hour by hour across a full week.
The exposure window mapped against it, with the gap quantified in hours and in dollars.
At least one option that closes the worst of the gap without increasing the spend.
What it would cost to close it completely, so the decision is yours and not implied.
A schedule you can hand to your existing provider as a change request.
This is usually the cheapest item on any report we write, and it is almost always the one with the largest number next to it.
A first conversation costs nothing. Tell us the property type, the hours that worry you, and what is in place today. If we look at it and there is nothing worth fixing, we will say so.