The most effective way to secure a premises.
Manned guarding remains the cleanest answer to unauthorised entry, theft, criminal damage and vandalism. MANSTOCK supplies SIA-licensed officers — vetted to BS 7858:2019, uniformed to your specification, briefed against a documented assignment instruction — from night watchman through to a permanent member of your day team.
From a single night-shift to fully integrated daytime cover.
Static guarding can be as simple as a night watchman on a single gatehouse — or as integrated as a uniformed officer who handles reception duties, visitor screening, mail processing and front-of-house alongside conventional security tasks. We brief each post against the building you actually have, not a template.
Where static guarding fits
- Commercial offices & multi-tenant reception
- Industrial sites, warehouses & distribution centres
- Construction phases that need daytime presence
- Retail, including out-of-hours and stock-rotation cover
- Healthcare, education and care-home environments
- Vacant property cover and managed-decline estates
- HNW residential and family-office contracts
Officer standards
- SIA licensed — checked at induction, mid-contract and renewal
- BS 7858:2019 — five-year work history, identity and right-to-work verified
- Site inducted — uniformed, briefed and signed off before first shift
- Customer-service trained — visible, present, professional
- Conflict-management trained — de-escalation, control and restraint where licensed
- Continuing development — refresher cycles, sector-specific add-ons
Manned security guarding is the most effective solution to secure any premises — provided the officer is briefed, retained and treated like a member of your team rather than an interchangeable agency body.
From site survey to first shift in 14 days.
Site survey
Walk the perimeter with you. Note ingress, blindspots, footfall, soft-target list.
Assignment instruction
Written post orders, escalation tree, beat times and named site contacts.
Officer selection
Matched on sector experience, language, location. Vetted, briefed, signed off.
First shift & review
30-day handover review, then monthly governance with your named operations lead.
What makes a MANSTOCK officer different.
Retained, not rotated
The same friendly face on the gate, week after week.
Time-stamped patrols
Every beat logged through our operations app — verifiable to the minute.
Escalation tree
Documented, tested, and reviewed monthly. No "I'll call my manager".
Reception & admin
Visitor logging, mail, deliveries, evac wardenship — on request.
Cover & redundancy
Sickness, no-shows, holidays — our ops desk owns the cover.
KPI scorecard
Monthly written review against agreed measures — not a compliance pack.