Warehouse loss prevention built for shrink, not shoplift.
Mission Protection Services staffs plain-clothes loss-prevention officers for warehouses, distribution centers, and fulfillment yards under our BSIS Private Patrol Operator license (PPO 126825). Officers tailored to your rack layout, dock cadence, and outbound staging — not a body pulled off a retail post. Inventory shrink, internal theft, and dock & receiving vulnerabilities each get their own post orders; sweeps are GPS-stamped and time-carded on the same audit trail as the rest of our licensed work.
- Plain-clothes LP officers tailored to a DC footprint
- Dock & receiving escorts, BOL cross-check, trailer-seal verification
- GPS-stamped rack-row + yard sweeps on a documented cadence
Where warehouse shrink actually lives
Three loss surfaces a retail LP program won’t catch.
Warehouse loss prevention is a different job than retail — different floors, different vocabulary, and a different cadence. These are the three risk surfaces our DC and fulfillment customers lose the most shrink to before a single officer clocks in.
Inventory shrink & missing-SKU loss
High-velocity SKUs leaving the building through back-of-house paths — intermodal containers, returns bays, and pallet over/under on BOL — before the WMS reconciles. Loss-prevention coverage that doesn’t understand pick faces, rack rows, and outbound staging won’t catch the patterns.
Employee internal theft at the dock
Time-card skimming at shift change, pallet and carton skim at outbound staging, and trusted-associate shrinkage that only shows up in cycle counts weeks later. We rotate uniformed dock escorts and plain-clothes LP officers on a documented cadence your supervisor tree sees in real time.
Dock & receiving vulnerabilities
Driver check-in gaps, over/under on the bill of lading, trailer pooling overnight in unsecured bays, and exchange of seals outside camera coverage. We write receiving post orders against your specific dock layout — BOL cross-check, seal verification, and yard perimeter sweeps on a 90-second GPS cadence.
What we put on-site
A plain-clothes LP program, dock escorts, GPS-stamped sweeps, and dispatch on rotation for the next shrink callout.
The same audit trail we built for armed and unarmed posts — GPS-stamped, time-carded, and downloadable from your dashboard the moment a sweep ends. Written for DC operations, not retrofitted from a retail playbook.
Plain-clothes LP officer coverage tailored to your DC footprint
A plain-clothes LP officer working the zones that show up on your shrink dashboard — pick faces, high-velocity SKU aisles, returns staging, and outbound staging — rather than a generic mobile patrol route. Post orders are written against your specific rack layout, signed off by your operations lead before the first shift.
Uniformed dockside & receiving escorts
Uniformed officer presence at start-of-shift and end-of-day on the docks. Driver check-in, bill-of-lading cross-check against the inbound manifest, trailer-seal verification, and a documented walk of any trailer pooled overnight. Coverage tightens around peak receiving windows without breaking cadence the rest of the day.
GPS-stamped sweeps of rack rows and yard perimeter
A minimum of one sweep per hour of the rack rows and yard perimeter — every sweep GPS-stamped and time-carded on the same platform we run for armed and unarmed posts. Pick-face, outbound staging, and camera dead-zones each get their own checkpoint on the sweep.
24-hour dispatch + supervisor on rotation
A real human answers our dispatch line at any hour. If a sweep is missed or a shrink callout is flagged, the supervisor on rotation gets a notification — and your site contact gets a call within minutes, not at end-of-shift.
California Bureau of Security & Investigative Services Private Patrol Operator. In good standing since 2010.
Every sweep GPS-stamped from the officer’s app, surfaced on your dashboard in real time. Cadence tightens to match your dock windows and outbound staging peaks.
Per-shift shrink callout log, BOL cross-check history, and seal-verification trail — exportable as a single zipped pack when your shrink team asks for the audit.
Typical warehouse LP pricing
Per-hour guidance so the warehouse team can quote on the first call.
These are typical bands, not a published contract — your brief lands with the warehouse LP team lead, who answers within one business day with a number specific to your rack layout, dock cadence, and supervisor add-ons.
Plain-clothes LP officer · business hours
$$/hr
Daytime LP coverage on the pick faces, returns staging, and outbound staging — paired with a uniformed dock escort on the receiving side at peak windows.
Plain-clothes LP officer · off-shift / overnight
$$/hr
Overnight coverage during the outbound staging push and trailer-pool windows — when internal theft and dock vulnerabilities are highest, and camera coverage is usually weakest.
Full-time LP rotation · 24/7
$$/hr
Three-shift plain-clothes LP rotation with paid-overlap handoffs at every shift change — the DC default for high-velocity operations where a single skipped shift wipes out a month of savings.
LP supervisor add-on
+$$/hr
Added to any base tier for multi-site operators and end-of-night outbound escort windows — single supervisor covers both functions, written up on the same shrink dashboard.
California does not regulate guard pricing. The bands above are a planning estimate from recent warehouse and DC placements in our service area. Bands to be confirmed by the founder before this page indexes; final quote reflects rack layout, dock cadence, zone coverage, and whether a supervisor add-on is in scope.
Reference
New to loss-prevention vocabulary?
Our glossary explains the terms used across warehouse LP placements — Loss prevention, Live Scan, Power to Arrest, PPO, and the audit-trail vocabulary dispatch uses on every post.
Quote · routed to warehouse LP
Ready for a warehouse LP quote?
The form opens pre-selected to the Unarmed branch — your site details route straight to the unarmed / warehouse LP team lead at Mission Protection Services, not a generic dispatch inbox. Switch branches in the form if your post is armed, fire-watch, or mobile patrol instead.
What we ask for
Three minutes of filling out, and we know enough to quote: your DC footprint, dock windows, the high-velocity SKUs that drive the most shrink, the outbound staging approach, and the date you want coverage to start.
- Footprint
- Dock windows
- High-velocity SKUs
- Outbound staging
- Go-live date
Form posts to the unarmed / warehouse LP team — same-day reply, usually within an hour during business hours. No phone tree. UTM param utm_source=lp-warehouses rides through so dispatch sees which campaign converted; ?service=unarmed keeps the form’s Unarmed branch selected on first paint. Switch in-form if your post is different.
Quick contact
Request a warehouse LP quote
Four fields, no phone tree. Inquiries route to the warehouse LP team lead at Mission Protection Services, not a generic dispatch inbox. Prefer the branched full quote form? Open it above.