California cannabis-dispensary security that survives a DCC / BCC audit.
Mission Protection Servicesstaffs California retail cannabis operators under our BSIS Private Patrol Operator license (PPO 126825). Written post orders tailored to your license tier, a live GPS-stamped guard dashboard, Metrc- and CCR §5040-conformant logging, and an armed / unarmed officer mix matched to your site geometry. Same-day quote, same-day deployment inside the LA / OC / IE / SD / Riverside basin.
- California BSIS-licensed officers only
- Live, GPS-stamped guard dashboard
- Armed + unarmed mix matched to license type
California-specific compliance
DCC, BCC, and the AHJ site plan each draw a separate box around your post orders.
Retail cannabis in California runs under its own compliance regime — not generic commercial security. These are the three regulatory requirements our dispensary customers hit most, paraphrased from the underlying rule rather than quoted at length. Every post order we write is checked against each one before the armed officer clocks in.
DCC / BCC licensing verification
Before the first officer clocks in, our dispatch confirms the operator holds an active California Department of Cannabis Control license (formerly Bureau of Cannabis Control) at the right tier — Type 10 retail, Type 9 non-storefront front, distributor, or microbusiness — and the local-AHJ site plan covers the post orders we are about to write.
24/7 armed guard mandate
California imposes a continuous-presence requirement on cash-bearing storefronts. We staff a licensed armed officer (BSIS firearms permit) on every dispensary post when cash volume crosses the AHJ threshold, and rotate a supervisor so armed posture never lapses across the day.
Visitor log & ID verification
DCC §15049 / §15049.1 require a contemporaneous visitor sign-in, ID verification on each entry, and a badge-in log that survives an audit. Our guards run that log on a tablet — timestamped, GPS-stamped, and exportable for the operator’s compliance team on first request.
What the regulator expects to see
- Visitor log timestamps — ID verified, badge-in, never backfilled.
- Incident log — contemporaneous notes, supervisor signature on close.
- Metrc transfer IDs on every vault move, on the same line as the officer serial number.
- Armed officer BSIS firearms permit copy on file, with permit number on every sweep log.
- CCR §5040 security-plan revision log, version-controlled alongside the incident stream.
- AHJ-approved perimeter and reporting chain, with site-plan copy on file at dispatch.
We paraphrase the regulatory triggers rather than quote text — confirm the specific wording with your Authority Having Jurisdiction and DCC / BCC liaison before the first officer clocks in.
What we put on-site
Written post orders, GPS-stamped sweeps, and an armed posture that carries through every shift change.
The same audit trail we built for every armed and unarmed post — GPS-stamped, time-carded, and downloadable from the operator’s dashboard the moment a sweep ends.
Written post orders tailored to license type
Post orders written against the operator’s specific DCC license tier and the local-AHJ site plan — vault access, cash-transport windows, badge-in thresholds, ID-check cadence, and incident-escalation chain — briefed to every guard at start of shift, signed by the supervisor on rotation.
GPS-stamped sweeps with badge-in checkpoints
Each sweep hits the points the site plan requires — lobby, sales floor, vault room, perimeter — and is logged with a GPS stamp, an armed / unarmed officer serial number, and a Metrc transfer ID any time a vault entry coincides with a manifest move. No backfilling, no transcription.
Paid-overlap handoffs at every shift change
A 30-minute paid overlap between the day-shift concierge and the armed patrol supervisor — vault inventory count, pending incident notes, and a swept walk of the overnight post orders — so the operator never briefs a stranger at shift change and armed posture carries through.
24-hour dispatch with armed backup
A real human answers our dispatch line at any hour. If a sweep is missed, an incident is flagged, or a regulator inquiry comes in, the supervisor on rotation gets a notification and the operator’s site contact gets a same-day call — not an end-of-shift email.
California Bureau of Security & Investigative Services Private Patrol Operator. In good standing since 2010.
Every sweep GPS-stamped from the guard’s app, surfaced in the operator’s dashboard in real time — cadence tightens to meet the AHJ site plan.
Visitor log, incident log, Metrc transfer IDs, and CCR §5040 revision history — exportable as a single zipped pack on regulator request.
Field record at a SoCal dispensary
12 months continuous coverage · 0 incidents reportable to the operator’s compliance ledger.
Same armed-plus-unarmed officer rotation, same Metrc- and CCR §5040-aligned post orders, same GPS-stamped dashboard the regulator pulls first — written up in detail on the SoCal dispensary case study.
Headline metric
12 months · 0 incidents
Numbers mirror the case-study page’s PLACEHOLDER block — edit one block on that page and both views stay in sync.
Typical guard tier pricing
Per-hour guidance so the dispensary team can quote on the first call.
These are typical California bands — not a published contract. Final quote reflects license tier, site geometry, armed / unarmed mix, and the AHJ site plan the operator is operating under.
Unarmed concierge · business hours
$$/hr
Standard daytime floor coverage — lobby greeter, ID verification, customer de-escalation, compliance support for the operator’s sales staff.
Armed concierge · business hours
$$/hr
Armed officer on the sales floor during peak cash hours — BSIS firearms-qualified, paid-relief rotation built in.
Armed officer · 24/7 continuous
$$/hr
The dispensary default — one armed officer around the clock with a paid-overlap handoff at every shift change and a supervisor on rotation.
Armed patrol supervisor add-on
+$$/hr
Added to any base tier for multi-site operators and end-of-night cash-transport escort — single supervisor covers both functions.
California does not regulate guard pricing. The bands above are a planning estimate from recent dispensary placements in our service area; your brief lands with the armed-guards team lead, who answers within one business day with a number specific to your license tier and site geometry.
Quote · routed to armed guards
Ready for an armed cannabis-dispensary quote?
The form opens pre-selected to the Armed branch — your site details route straight to the armed-guards team lead at Mission Protection Services, not a generic dispatch inbox. Switch branches in the form if the post is unarmed or mixed.
What we ask for
Three minutes of filling out, and we know enough to quote: license type and tier, hours of operation, the armed / unarmed mix you’re staffing toward, the site address we’re dispatching to, and the date you want officers on the floor.
- License type
- Hours of operation
- Armed / unarmed mix
- Site address
- Go-live date
Form posts to the armed-guards team — same-day reply, usually within an hour during business hours. No phone tree. UTM param utm_source=industries-cannabis rides through so dispatch sees which campaign converted; ?service=armed keeps the form’s Armed branch selected on first paint.