Marin County sits across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, where coastal geography, established commercial communities, biotech and healthcare activity, and the supporting retail and residential inventory together produce a distinct working environment. The county covers roughly 800 square miles and is anchored by the cities of San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera, and Sausalito.
San Rafael serves as the regional commercial and civic hub, with a working downtown commercial inventory and supporting professional and retail activity. Novato supports a corporate and biotech footprint along the US-101 corridor. Mill Valley, Larkspur, and Corte Madera support established residential and retail activity, including The Village at Corte Madera and the Town Center Corte Madera. Sausalito anchors a coastal hospitality and tourism economy. The county also includes substantial unincorporated land and protected open space.
ShieldWise Security operates under California BSIS Private Patrol Operator license #122008. The company is headquartered in the city of Riverside and serves Marin County as part of its broader service area. Coverage is matched to contract assignments and project work, with staffing planned around the specific engagement. Officers complete BSIS Power to Arrest training, the required skills training for the California guard card, and any property- or post-specific training the contract requires.
The same compliance discipline runs across every Marin County engagement: written post orders matched to the property, daily activity reports in the client's inbox the morning after every shift, GPS-stamped checkpoints on patrol routes, and same-night incident reports when something happens. Operations are managed from Riverside HQ by Hamoon Khodayee. Insurance documentation supports industrial, healthcare, retail, hospitality, residential, and commercial property contracts, including the additional insured endorsements often required by property management firms and corporate facilities teams.
"Marin asks for a quieter kind of security. A biotech lab, a medical office building, an upscale shopping center, and a gated residential community each need a different plan, but all of them want a presence that's professional and low-profile rather than heavy-handed. We staff the county with that range in mind."
, Hamoon Khodayee, Operations Manager, ShieldWise SecurityLast updated: June 2026. | Member: CALSAGA.
Laboratories, research facilities, and medical office buildings, particularly in San Rafael and Novato.
Office and professional buildings along the US-101 corridor.
Regional and community retail centers, including The Village at Corte Madera, the Town Center Corte Madera, and the established retail of Mill Valley and Sausalito.
Coastal hotels and supporting retail in Sausalito and the surrounding waterfront communities.
Marin County is served by the Marin County Sheriff's Office (covering unincorporated areas) along with municipal police departments in the incorporated cities. The District Attorney's Office and Superior Court are based in the county seat. Our reporting channels integrate with whichever local agency has primary jurisdiction over the property.
Every officer completes the BSIS Power to Arrest course, the required skills training for the California guard card under Business and Professions Code Section 7583.6, and any property-specific training a contract requires. Armed officers also hold an Exposed Firearms Permit under Business and Professions Code Sections 7583.22–7583.23. License is verifiable on the BSIS lookup at bsis.ca.gov, search PPO #122008.
Fire watch assignments run under California Fire Code 901.7 documentation standards. Authority Having Jurisdiction varies across the county between Cal Fire state responsibility area, the county fire department, and municipal fire departments. Local AHJ sets watch frequency and documentation requirements; our post orders match what the AHJ requires.
Active construction sites operate under California Penal Code 602 trespass framework along with standard Cal/OSHA Title 8 site-safety requirements. Documentation standards support insurance reporting and the property owner's loss-control program participation.
Walk-throughs in Marin County are typically scheduled within the same week of initial contact. Reach out to schedule. Walk-throughs can be scheduled at the property, at our Riverside office, or by video call. The walk-through drives the post orders; the post orders drive everything that happens on shift.
Property management firms with multiple sites across Marin County benefit from single-vendor coverage with one account manager and consistent procedures. We can coordinate different post types under one engagement when the portfolio mixes industrial, retail, healthcare, or residential properties.
The company maintains insurance documentation suitable for industrial, healthcare, retail, hospitality, residential, and commercial property contracts, including the additional insured endorsements often required by property management firms and corporate facilities teams. Certificates are issued before officers post on site.
First, the honest part, because Marin is a distant market for us and that should be clear up front: we're a Southern California firm, not a North Bay one. We'll come back to what that means. What we can speak to is the kind of security Marin's economy actually calls for, and it's a specific mix. San Rafael, the county seat, concentrates the city and county government, the Marin County Civic Center, the courts, and the offices and services that radiate from them. There's a real and growing life-science cluster, BioMarin, the Buck Institute, Ultragenyx, with labs and research campuses that bring their own access concerns. Healthcare anchors like MarinHealth serve the whole county. And then there's Marin's retail and residential character: the shopping around Corte Madera, the walkable downtowns of Mill Valley, San Anselmo, and Larkspur, the waterfront communities of Tiburon and Belvedere, and a county of high property values where estates, HOAs, and second homes are common. So a property here might be a county office building, a research lab, a medical campus, a downtown retailer, or a private residence on the water.
We cover Marin as a region rather than pretending to be embedded in any one town. Across San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, San Anselmo, Larkspur, and the Tiburon peninsula, the work follows the property. On a research or medical campus we build the post around controlled access and a clear visitor-escort rule, because the concern is who's in the building, not a smash-and-grab. On a retail or downtown post it's a visible, consistent presence and officers who can de-escalate and document cleanly. On residential and estate work, including vacant or second homes, it's scheduled mobile patrol on timing that varies so a property doesn't have a predictable empty window, with every round logged on GuardTrac so the owner or HOA can see it from anywhere. We walk a site before we quote and write post orders specific to it. On retail and residential property especially, the duty to provide reasonable security where harm is foreseeable, the standard from California's Ann M. v. Pacific Plaza Shopping Center, is the lens we bring.
Now the honest geography, plainly. ShieldWise is a California-licensed Private Patrol Operator, PPO #122008, headquartered in Riverside, in Southern California, not the North Bay. Are we based in Marin? No. Our license is valid statewide, but we don't keep a Marin yard or supervisors who live in the county and know each town, and for a single standing post a local Marin firm may genuinely be the better fit. Where we tend to make sense is a client with sites across California, or a property owner with holdings in more than one region, who wants one licensed vendor held to a consistent standard. Our officers carry current BSIS guard cards under Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations, and we're a member of CALSAGA, the statewide trade association for licensed security agencies.
The honest limits. Our unarmed officers observe, document, and escalate; they don't physically intervene in an active-violence situation, and a private guard is not a substitute for the police. We don't provide executive or close protection. And if a local firm fits your property better, we'll tell you.
Yes. The county is an active service area for us, staffed by officers who work in the region.
Yes. Much of Marin's work is in upscale and sensitive settings, so we brief officers for a low-profile, professional presence with strong access control and careful documentation, suited to biotech labs, corporate offices, and high-value retail.
We maintain dedicated pages for San Rafael and Novato, plus coverage across Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Ross, and the Greenbrae and Kentfield areas.
Officers document incidents in writing during the shift. A supervisor reviews each report, and you receive it on the schedule set in your contract, with a same-shift phone call for serious incidents.
A note on emergencies: ShieldWise Security provides private security services. We do not provide police, medical, fire, or emergency first-responder services. In an active emergency, always call 911 first.
Call (714) 716-7430 or email info@shieldwisesecurity.com with the property address and the type of coverage you're considering. We respond within one business day with a clear answer on deployment timing and a written proposal scoped to the actual property. Every contract begins with a walk-through; the walk-through can be at the property, at our Riverside office, or by video call.
PPO #122008
Licensed, bonded, and insured under California law. License verifiable on the BSIS license lookup, search PPO #122008.