Management decided to try bringing in outside help for nighttime coverage. We started with an Unarmed security guard, mainly because we weren’t dealing with violent situations, we just needed someone trained who could patrol the property, watch for unusual activity, and respond calmly if something came up. It turned out to be more useful than we expected. The guard would check gates, walk around the loading dock area, and sometimes keep an eye on the camera screens when things were quiet. When we had a short renovation project and a few alarm systems were temporarily offline, they even handled fire watch duties during the evenings. That part alone saved us a lot of stress because we didn’t have to assign our own staff to sit around monitoring things overnight. When I was researching options I originally found a page called Security guard services Portland, Oregon and that’s pretty close to the type of service we ended up using