Modern Security Guard Reporting System
Modern Security Guard Reports Are Superior to Traditional Security Reports
Modern security guard business clients want modern security reports. So, if you are still using the outdated guard patrol “Wand”, “Pipe”, or “Stick” and the related “Button Patrol System”, you are in danger of losing your client when they realize what a Modern Security DAR (Daily Activity Report) App and a modern guard reporting system–built in America and including 24/7 U.S.-based Support–will deliver.
What’s the difference between a MODERN Security Guard Reporting System and a TRADITIONAL Patrol and Guard Tour Tracking and Reporting System?
- A modern guard reporting system is REAL-TIME.
- A traditional patrol reporting system is NOT real-time.
- A modern security guard app requires the mobile security officer to actually look around at the checkpoint.
- Traditional guard patrol wands, etc., allow the guard to reach around the corner in a stairwell, tap a button, and move on.
- This modern security guard reporting app allows for the collection of significant data on every scan and activity submitted.
- A tradition wand, pipe, stick and button system does NOT allow the guard to record data for the report.
- Modern security reporting software includes integrated PHOTOS in daily activity reports and photos or VIDEO in Incident Reports.
- Traditional guard reporting systems do NOT include photos or video.
- A modern security officer reports system is branded to YOUR COMPANY.
- A couple traditional guard reporting systems allow for your logo on reports.
- This modern security guard reporting system is integrated into robust but easy-to-use Security Workforce Management Software, to handle all your guard management needs in one place.
- A traditional security tracking reporting system spits out an incredibly simple report that simply shows checkpoint names scanned and possibly geotags.
- Modern Guard Reporting Software delivers polished, scheduled daily reports, keeping your clients happy.
- Traditional wands, pipes, sticks, and buttons provide your client with the ultra-basics, which may keep them satisfied…until they find something better.
- A modern guard reporting system is REAL-TIME.
Modern Security Guard Reporting Systems & Reporting Apps are FAR superior to traditional Guard Tour & Patrol Reporting Systems. DEMO or call (800) 688-9633.
Why Real-Time Reporting Makes Modern Security Systems Superior?
With a real-time reporting system, a guard can immediately report a Security Incident or other issue directly from the site. Supervisors can receive that information immediately rather than waiting until the end of a shift, when a guard returns to a workstation, or when a physical wand or pipe or stick device is downloaded and reviewed.
Real-time reporting therefore turns the security data collected from a simple historical record into an operational tool.
This creates several important advantages:
- Immediate response time: Problems can be addressed while they are still occurring rather than after the fact.
- Greater accountability: Supervisors can see patrol activity and reported incidents as they occur.
- True situational awareness: Management has a picture of current conditions across multiple sites and patrol areas.
- Faster escalation: Serious incidents can be communicated immediately to the appropriate personnel to act on accordingly.
- Better documentation: Photos, notes, timestamps, locations, and incident details can be captured at the scene.
- Improved client confidence: Clients can receive timely security reports about issues affecting their property rather than relying on basic end-of-shift reports.
- Proactive security: Management can identify and respond to developing problems instead of simply documenting that they occurred.
How Does a Modern Security Patrol Reporting System Option Promote Better Situational Awareness?
With Over 100,000 Collective Hours of Experience, our core team has been in the security and software industries for a long time, and we have seen a lot. Since the beginning, decades ago, even the demonstration videos for traditional patrol sticks, pipes, and wand & button systems have frustrated us.
If you’ve ever seen a wand and button system video you may know what I mean, if not, or if you didn’t catch it, watch one after this next brief paragraph:
In the demonstration and training videos for the tradition guard patrol reporting systems, the guard simply walks directly to the button, taps it, then walks away! They never even glance around! And why should he/ she? They’re “security reporting system” only requires that they do exactly that, then upload the data to a computer when done.
This easy modern security officer reporting system allows them to take photos at every checkpoint, record any relevant data with speech-to-text (with spell-check built in), and submit the report form to create a real-time entry in their daily report, which management can confirm in real time.
In the videos for the tradition security reporting systems a criminal could be standing 20 feet away and the guard wouldn’t even see them. Pictures and relevant data require the guard to check their surroundings at that checkpoint.
And Incident Report Alerts can come to you in real-time including video, if appropriate.
Check out this affordable and modern security reporting system to see how it promotes better situational awareness. Schedule a DEMO or call (800) 688-9633.
What Significant Security Data Is Collected on Modern Security Reporting Submissions?
While a traditional security guard tour reporting system only includes checkpoints hit and geotags, the best modern guard reporting systems collect the following:
- Security officer identification
- Date and time
- GPS Coordinates and map pin
- Photographs and video
- Observations
- Guard actions
- Historical audit trail
- Real-time status
This information not only makes for a much more professional and polished modern security report, but feeds into the Security Officer Management System where you can run analytics with bar graphs and charts to help direct smoother security operations.
What Are the Advantages of Photos and Video in a Modern Security Reporting System?
One significant advantage is that, if you direct the security officer to take a photo with each submission—notifying them through their Mobile Post Orders/ SOP Access—then that requires them to stop and look around for a moment instead of just tapping a button and walking away.
Another substantial advantage to including photos and/or video in reports is how much better the reports appear to your customer. Which, if you’ve seen the pictures of reports on this page (which, again, will be branded to your company and significantly longer than the simple one page reports we are able to picture), you can see how much more visibly pleased your clients will be with their new, reliable modern security reports.
All Security Reports and Advanced Functions Available to Your Clients Are Branded to Your Company
As far as your customer is concerned this is your system. They need not even know we exist.
What Is the Advantage of This Modern Security Guard Reporting System Being Part of an Affordable, User-friendly, and Reliable Security Workforce Management System and Apps?
Clicking on the links above will begin to answer the question, but the bottom line is that this is the most customizable guard management system we have encountered. For that reason, it may be that DAR and Incident Report Management are all you need or want. But if you need more, hovering over the “Arsenal” menu item above will show you much of what is available to you; from Patrol Vehicle Reporting, to Lone Worker Protection, to Visitor Management, to Job Pricing Software, to a Suspicious Persons Database, to the truly amazing and exclusive Community Watch App.
Call a modern guard reporting expert at (800) 688-9633 or schedule a DEMO to see how superior modern security reporting is over traditional security reporting systems.
How Does an Affordable, Easy to use, Reliable Modern Security Guard Reporting System Keep Your Clients Happy?
One of the important differentiators that places this particular modern security reporting system among the very best security guard reporting software systems you will find, is that we have demonstrated 100% Successful Scheduled Report Delivery Since Inception at the time this page was written. You won’t find a more reliable modern security reporting system than this. And that alone is sure to make your clients happy.
The other reason modern security reporting software beats traditional tracking and reporting systems is because the reports:
- Can be automatically scheduled to go out any hour of the day you wish, and/ or in real time.
- Contain more security data and proof of security presence.
- Are far more appealing in their appearance.
Modern Security Guard Reporting: More Data, More Visibility, More Value
Modern security guard reporting systems transform guard patrol reporting from a basic checkpoint verification process into a real-time security operations management tool. Unlike traditional wands, pipes, sticks, and button systems that simply document that a checkpoint was scanned, this easy modern Security DAR (Daily Activity Report) system captures meaningful security data—including GPS location, timestamps, observations, guard actions, photos, video, and incident details—and delivers that information to management in real time. Guards are encouraged to actually observe their surroundings, document conditions, and report issues as they happen, giving supervisors true situational awareness and the ability to respond accordingly. Including branded, professional reports, automated report delivery, mobile post orders, incident alerts, and powerful workforce management and analytics capabilities, a modern reporting system provides more accountability (there’s that word again), better proof of security presence, faster response, better client communication, and a dramatically more professional client experience than traditional guard tour system reports. Ultimately, modern security reporting doesn’t just document where a guard has been—it helps demonstrate what the guard actually did, what they observed, and what is happening at your client’s property right now.