Make Smart Guard Force Decisions with Location Risk Intelligence

Cut security costs while maintaining protection at high-risk locations using data-driven insights from Base Operations to validate where guard forces are truly needed.

Overview

Base Operations helps security leaders determine exactly where guard forces and other site security investments are necessary and where they can be safely reduced by using location-specific risk data that quantifies threats by type, time, and trends.

For: Loss Prevention Directors, Security Directors, and Risk Managers in retail, banking, and multi-location organizations

Delivers:

• Reduction in unnecessary security expenditures
• Clear justification for maintaining protection at genuinely high-risk sites
• Data-backed evidence for executive cost-cutting discussions
• Prevention of security incidents through smart resource allocation

How It Works: Validate Guard Force Requirements with Data

1. Map Your High-Risk Locations

Instantly visualize risk distribution across your entire portfolio through Base Operations' heat map. Filter by BaseScore (0-100) to identify your highest risk locations — those scoring above 60 represent the top 13% of risk locations.

2. Identify Guard Force Evaluation Candidates

Flag locations showing decreased internal incidents as potential candidates for guard force optimization, while maintaining protection at consistently high-risk sites.

3. Analyze Specific Location Risk

Drill down into individual sites to assess their true risk profile:

• Compare location risk to surrounding areas
• Focus on relevant retail threats (burglary, shoplifting, robbery)
• Determine which specific threats drive elevated risk

4. Verify Actual Threat Volume

Review specific incident counts within proximity to your location. A quarter-mile radius might reveal 199 shoplifting incidents, 31 vandalism cases, and 15 violent robberies over the past year.

5. Match Guard Hours to Threat Timing

Analyze when incidents occur to align guard coverage with peak risk periods. Identify whether shoplifting concentrates during mid-day and evening, while burglaries occur overnight, enabling precise scheduling decisions.

6. Check Trends Before Cutting

Examine year-over-year comparisons and seasonal patterns before finalizing decisions. A location showing a 10% increase in summer incidents warrants maintaining guards during those months, even if considering reductions at other times.

7. Justify Decisions with Evidence

Provide decision-makers with visual proof of threat concentrations near high-risk locations, effectively defending necessary security expenditures while identifying genuine cost-saving opportunities.

Results: Protection Where It Matters, Savings Where It Doesn't

Stop the guesswork in guard force decision-making. Base Operations delivers the specific, data-backed intelligence needed to:

• Deploy guards only where and when data proves they're needed
• Eliminate unnecessary security costs at genuinely lower-risk locations
• Defend necessary security expenditures with compelling visual evidence
• Ensure protection remains focused where risks are highest

Schedule a demo to see how Base Operations can optimize your guard force decisions with location-specific intelligence.