Desert Guardian Protective Services is "The" Innovative Security and Enforcement Provider. With over 30 years of security and military enforcement experience, we have assembled a truly professional security and enforcement team that is highly motivated and trained using the best technology and tools available. Our training and dedication separate us from all other agencies and our devotion to the clients we serve ensures complete client satisfaction.
Desert Guardian specializes in many areas of security, from government access control to construction, apartments and government assistance housing, we provide a quality service that is unparalleled in the industry. Our employees are trained to the absolute highest level with a multi-phase training academy that spans 5 to 7 days for each phase, not the minimum 16 hours as required by the state, giving them the knowledge, skills and abilities to protect life and property correctly and most importantly, safely. Our SORT training academy program offers the client security and enforcement personnel that rival full time, compensated police enforcement personnel. SORT personnel are trained in programs that span over 180 hours before their field training even begins. THIS is what makes us different.
Utilizing the best tactics, techniques, and procedures, we stay on the cutting edge with the latest in technology. Our security and enforcement personnel are well versed in Arizona Title 13 and have a solid understanding of the law and its' application with regard to your specific needs. This approach limits our exposure to liability while ensuring that security and enforcement procedures are carried out correctly and efficiently each and every time.
Providing the right equipment for the right job is essential. Desert Guardian personnel are well equipped for both foot and vehicle patrol. Our personnel undergo recertification of less than lethal and lethal force use more than twice as often as state requirements, ensuring your safety and theirs. Desert Guardian recognizes the need for this approach and realizes that we are not just another security and enforcement firm. We stand apart in our approach, demeanor and performance.
We encourage you to read up on other agencies, and put to test their theory of a good service, and be truly amazed at how we can make a difference. Please feel free to contact us at any time for a courtesy site walk and interview. Our command staff is available during the business day and on weekends to answer your questions.
Mission Statement
It is the mission of Desert Guardian Protective Services to work with the citizens of our community to preserve life, protect property, and promote individual responsibility and community commitment.
This is accomplished by providing a quality community oriented security service and by providing training to the public.
New DPS Form
Beginning July 1, 2009, the Licensing Unit is implementing a new procedure for upgrading an unarmed security guard registration to an armed security guard registration. If the applicant for an upgrade has not been fingerprinted in the last 90 days, he or she will be required to be fingerprinted again for this process. The cost of the upgrade remains $50, however the fingerprint fee of $24 will be added for a total of $74 when fingerprinting is required. This also means that when an upgrade is being processed for an applicant that was fingerprinted over 90 days ago, the applicant will not immediately receive his or her armed guard card. In the past we processed these upgrades while the applicant waited in our lobby. Under the new procedure upgrades will need to be dropped off and the armed guard card will be mailed or put in will call when the background check has been completed. Upgrades will be processed with the same turnaround times as other registrations.
One other change being implemented as of July 1, 2009, is the revision of our Security Guard/Private Investigator Registration Application form. A question has been added for armed applicants.
The question asks “Are you a prohibited possessor under state or federal law?"
This question must be answered by all new armed applicants, renewing armed registrations and applicants who are upgrading to an armed registration.
Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2009 21:05
An Online Quality Check
Recently, the Arizona Department of Public Safety announced it's new online license check for individual security guards, and security guard agencies. This tool gives the user the ability to search by first name, last name, agency name and or license number. What does this do for you? As a client of any security agency you want to ensure you are getting the very best. Far too often an understaffed agency will send a guard to stand post without that guard in possession of a valid license - which is a crime!The State of Arizona requires all persons in the performance of security duties be licensed prior to actually standing post.
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