About Construction Site Security Orlando

James Franklin founded Nexus Security Firm after more than 15 years in law enforcement. On a job site that experience decides small things that matter later: what an officer is told to do when someone walks the perimeter at 3am, when to call police rather than intervene, and how an incident gets written up so it holds together if a claim follows months after the crew has moved on.

The first call is a set of questions about the site, and it takes about ten minutes. Where the job is, what phase it is in and how long the schedule runs. What is on the ground: equipment, fuel, copper, staged material, finishes. Where the fence is and how many ways there are onto the property. Which hours nobody from the project is there. Whether anything has already happened.

If the answers suggest a coverage pattern, the next step is a site walk with a supervisor and your superintendent, usually after dark, because the site at 9pm is the site the officer will work. That walk produces a written read on the exposure, including the parts you can fix without buying officer hours: hardened storage, delivery staging, lighting.

Only then do we quote. If your exposure would be covered adequately by a patrol pattern with several checks a night instead of a twelve hour standing post, we will price the cheaper one and explain why. Telling a contractor to spend less on the first phase of a two year project is how we end up on the rest of it.

Nexus Security Firm holds FDACS Class B agency license B 1900066, issued under Chapter 493 of the Florida Statutes. A Class B is the license a business must hold to provide security officers in Florida, and it is valid statewide.

Individual officers hold their own licenses. Class D covers unarmed work and requires 40 hours of FDACS-approved training on a two year term. Class G is the armed license, held in addition to the Class D, and FDACS requires four hours of firearms requalification in each year of the two year period.

All of it is public record. The FDACS Division of Licensing runs a public license search that returns status and expiration for the agency and for any individual officer. We give you the officer numbers for your post before the first shift. Any security company can do this, and it is worth noticing which ones offer a number and which ones offer the word licensed.

A post starts with a written set of orders for your specific site. They name the gates and lock times, the authorized entry list, the patrol route or sweep plan and its check points, what gets logged, who gets called for what, and the escalation order with your superintendent and project manager on it. The officer carries them on post and they get rewritten when the phase changes.

On shift, an officer works the lock-up walk, the patrol pattern at irregular times, and the log. Things found get written down with a time: a gate left open, a fence cut, a light that has failed, a vehicle sitting against the perimeter, a person on site who has no reason to be. Where the post is a gate or a receiving point, the day is identity checks, sequencing and a log of every movement in and out.

A supervisor is assigned to every post and physically attends it, overnight shifts included, and arranges relief when an officer calls out so the officer already on post is not absorbing a double. Incidents are documented and the documentation goes to your project team. When an officer encounters somebody on your materials, the instruction is to make contact from a safe distance, ask the person to leave, and call police if they refuse.

The office is at 3203 Lawton Rd, Orlando, FL 32803, and the core service area is Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake counties. Within the metro that covers downtown Orlando and the Mills district, Winter Park, Maitland, College Park, Lake Nona and Medical City, the tourism corridor and International Drive, the UCF and Research Park corridor, Horizon West, Winter Garden, Ocoee, Apopka, Altamonte Springs, Sanford, Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Clermont.

A Class B agency license is valid anywhere in Florida, so projects outside the Orlando metro are workable. For patrol contracts specifically, distance changes the economics, because drive time between sites is officer time and it ends up in your rate. We will tell you what we already cover near your project before you sign anything, since that is what decides whether patrol prices well for you.