Armed & unarmed officers · Texas License C03781 · Est. 1982 · Veteran-owned
International Security Services builds a custom guard program for each client — the same officers on the same posts, managed by the people who bid the work. Not a national vendor drawing from a rotating labor pool.
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Use the calculator: pick your site type, your coverage hours, and armed or unarmed. You get an estimated monthly cost range in three clicks — no contact details required.
This calculator gives you an estimated monthly cost range in three steps. Start by tapping the site type below — post orders are written per site, and a truck gate and a front gatehouse share almost nothing.
Post orders are written per site. A truck gate and a front gatehouse share almost nothing, and the price follows the post — not a brochure.
We made the opposite bet in 1982: one metroplex, one client list small enough to manage personally, and officers who stay on a post long enough to know which door sticks.
Ask a property manager what went wrong with their last security vendor and you hear the same four things:
That is not bad luck. It is what a national footprint requires.
U.S. security officer openings per year
Driven almost entirely by turnover, against roughly zero net employment growth.
The people who own this company are the people who run your account.
Your program is built with you, not assigned from a template.
The same officers hold the same posts for years, not weeks.
The industry runs on churn. We do not.
Speak to a manager directly. No out-of-state account manager.
A safety record we protect by being selective about the work we accept.
Every officer works from a written post order specific to your property. Here is what those typically cover.
Residents judge security by the gate: how fast it opens for them and how firmly it closes on everyone else. Vendor traffic, guest passes, and after-hours amenity access are where boards get complaints.
DFW holds one of the country's densest concentrations of distribution centers, from Alliance down through Lancaster and Wilmer. The exposure is cargo theft, seal tampering, and drivers moving through the yard unescorted.
Production floors run on shift change and material flow. Security moves with both, screening inbound supply, controlling tool and scrap movement, and keeping contractors out of live areas.
We take construction work when the assignment runs roughly six months or longer, or when it is expected to convert into an ongoing post-construction contract. We are not a short-term construction coverage provider, and we will tell you up front if the timeline does not fit.
These posts are more de-escalation than deterrence. Officers work alongside clinical staff on visitor management, elopement risk, and situations that must be handled calmly and documented carefully.
Public buildings combine open access with controlled spaces: court dockets, school visitor check-in, after-hours municipal facilities. Officers balance hospitality with screening and clear documentation.
Waterfront property is perimeter, dock, and vessel all at once. The right post controls gate and slip access, watches for unauthorized boardings, and documents anything that happens on the water side.
A car lot is an open inventory display after dark. Security is key control, lot lighting, test-drive verification, and a visible deterrent that keeps keys, parts, and vehicles where they belong.
Dedicated patrol coverage is available as a custom-bid option for qualified large or multi-site clients. It is not a standard offering.
Ask any provider for these in writing. If they hesitate on the second one, keep looking.
Every officer is licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety and background-checked before assignment. Unarmed posts are staffed by Level II officers; armed posts by Level III commissioned officers. We carry full liability and workers' compensation coverage and stay current with every state compliance requirement.
Field supervisors check posts in person to confirm officers are performing to standard and to keep a working line open between your team and ours. We have never billed supervision as a separate line item.
Guard tour systems, tracking options, radios, and custom reporting are added when a site needs them and left out when it doesn't. Daily activity and incident reports arrive on your schedule, showing what happened and anything the officer found — a light out, an open door, a vehicle that should not be there.
You work directly with the people who run the company. Decisions get made locally, the program gets tailored with you rather than handed down, and whoever wrote your proposal stays accountable for the relationship. No national call center, no new regional manager every quarter.
We keep our client list small enough to staff it properly. Every assignment we accept has to support a stable, professional post — because that is what keeps the same officers in place, turnover low, and incidents rare. Fewer clients, better fit, longer relationships.
We do not staff shoplifting or loss-prevention enforcement roles.
We decline assignments centered on domestic disturbance or drug-related calls.
We do not take bar, club, or alcohol-service assignments.
Anything under roughly six months without a path to an ongoing contract.
Weddings, parties, and single-night event coverage are not what we do.
We do not provide residential or home-watch style assignments.
We will not place an officer where there is no shelter, cooling, or restroom access. In Texas heat, that is not negotiable.
Turning down the wrong work is how we keep the right people on your post.
Our unarmed officers run $27 to $32 per hour, and site supervision or account management roles run $32 to $45 per hour. Most security companies will not publish this. We would rather you walk into the conversation informed.
Access control, gatehouse, lobby, interior and exterior rounds, deterrence and reporting. The right fit for the large majority of sites.
On-site supervisory and account management roles, and posts that require a commissioned officer.
Rates vary by geography, type of assignment, scope, and staffing needs. Every site is bid after we walk it.
Most assignments take a couple of weeks to launch. Clients changing providers typically follow a 30-day transition plan.
A new post has to be built before it can be staffed. That means recruiting, hiring, scheduling, uniforming, and training, with go-live at the end of the transition period. Larger assignments take longer because multiple officers have to be hired and trained before anyone stands a shift. We would rather give you a real date than a fast one.
Most sites do not need armed officers. Unarmed Level II officers handle access control, deterrence, reporting, and escalation to police, which covers the majority of commercial and residential posts.
Armed Level III commissioned officers are warranted where cash, pharmaceuticals, or high-value goods are handled, where there is a documented history of violent incidents on or near the property, or where an insurer or contract specifically requires it. Arming a post you do not need to arm raises both your cost and your liability exposure.
Every officer we assign holds a valid security officer license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety under Occupations Code Chapter 1702.
Level II is the non-commissioned unarmed license. Level III is the commissioned armed license, requiring a minimum 45-hour course including firearms qualification. Companies are licensed separately — ours is Texas License C03781.
A contract provider carries the licensing, training, insurance, payroll, and liability, and absorbs turnover by backfilling your post from a shared roster.
In-house teams give direct control but leave you to recruit, license, schedule, and cover every absence. U.S. contract security grew from roughly $22 billion to $33 billion between 2014 and 2022 as employers made that trade. The question worth asking is not contract versus in-house — it is how deep the provider's local bench is when someone calls out.
Six things, all of which a legitimate provider can produce in a day: the company license number, a certificate of insurance with limits named, who supervises the post and how often, the turnover rate on comparable accounts, the written escalation chain for after-hours incidents, and a sample daily activity report.
That last one is the most revealing. If a provider cannot show you what their reporting looks like before you sign, you will not like what it looks like after.
Most assignments take a couple of weeks to launch. Clients changing providers typically follow a 30-day transition plan.
A new post has to be built before it can be staffed. That means recruiting, hiring, scheduling, uniforming, and training, with go-live at the end of the transition period. Larger assignments take longer because multiple officers have to be hired and trained before anyone stands a shift. We would rather give you a real date than a fast one.
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and North Texas, from Alliance and Fort Worth east through Carrollton / Farmers Branch and Richardson, and north to Sherman–Denison.
We are licensed statewide but staff where we can supervise. If a site sits outside that footprint we will say so rather than take the contract and manage it from a distance.
