Licensed BSIS guards for winery estates, agricultural property, and downtown commercial in San Joaquin County's wine country
Lodi is wine country, and a fair amount of the security work reflects that. The city of about 68,000, an hour south of Sacramento, anchors one of California's most important wine regions: more than 85 wineries, over 100,000 acres of vineyards, and roughly a fifth of the state's winegrape production , more than Napa and Sonoma combined. Around the wineries sits a broader agricultural economy of almonds, cherries, and row crops, a walkable downtown full of tasting rooms, restaurants, and shops, and the events and agritourism that bring steady visitor traffic. A winery and tasting room, a vineyard or ag operation, a downtown retailer, and a harvest-season event each need a different plan, and we scope to the property.
ShieldWise Security is a California-licensed private patrol operator (PPO #122008), with officers working across the Central Valley and the Sacramento region. Lodi is an active service area for us, and its wine-country, agricultural, and downtown mix is the kind of work we staff to the specific site.
Production facilities with access control and inventory protection; customer-facing tasting rooms with parking coverage, crowd management, and a guest-friendly presence during busy weekends and releases.
Crush and harvest bring round-the-clock operations and outside crews; wine-country events and festivals bring crowds. We cover the adjacent private property , events on public streets are city-run.
Rural and farm property, equipment yards, and ag operations where perimeter checks and patrol matter, especially seasonally.
The tasting rooms, restaurants, and shops of the downtown core, with loss-prevention coordination and a steady presence, plus residential and construction across the city's growth areas.
Every contract starts with a walk-through. We document entry points, the property layout, parking, lighting, and the hours that carry risk, then write post orders specific to the property. For a tasting room that means parking coverage and a calm, guest-friendly presence; for a production facility or vineyard it means access control and perimeter checks. Officers log patrol and access activity through our digital reporting system and write up incidents during the shift. A supervisor reviews the reports, and you receive them on the schedule set in the contract, with a same-shift phone call for anything serious.
ShieldWise Security operates under California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services Private Patrol Operator license #122008. Every officer completes the BSIS Power to Arrest course and the required guard-card skills training, carries a valid guard card on shift, and completes any property-specific training the post requires. Armed posts are staffed only where the contract requires it; for most winery, tasting-room, retail, and residential properties, unarmed officers are the right fit. We're licensed, bonded, and insured, with documentation available on request, and we're a member of CALSAGA
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.
Agricultural and vineyard properties often have security needs that are different from regular commercial buildings. These sites may include open land, equipment yards, storage areas, fuel tanks, irrigation systems, worker access points, barns, gates, and remote roads that are difficult to monitor without consistent patrols.
ShieldWise Security provides agricultural and vineyard property security services focused on visible deterrence, gate checks, mobile patrols, access control, incident documentation, and after-hours monitoring. Our officers help protect valuable equipment, crops, vehicles, tools, materials, and restricted areas while supporting property owners, managers, and farm operations with professional reporting and fast escalation when suspicious activity is found.
Last updated: June 2026. | Member: CALSAGA.
Lodi is wine country at Central Valley scale, the heart of California Zinfandel, with a large concentration of wineries and tasting rooms, an active events calendar, and a walkable downtown along School Street. Around that sits the agriculture and the residential and retail of a growing San Joaquin County city. The security profile blends tasting-room and event work, agricultural and industrial property, and downtown commercial.
At a winery or a tasting-room event, the real work is crowd flow and the parking areas after dark, handled by a visible, de-escalation-first unarmed officer who fits the setting rather than overwhelms it. For agricultural and industrial parcels, it's access control, gate and fence-line checks, and GPS-logged vehicle patrol. Downtown retail and commercial property gets a consistent officer, parking support, and clean incident reporting routed to the manager on site.
On location: ShieldWise is a California-licensed Private Patrol Operator, PPO #122008, headquartered in Riverside, not Lodi. We serve the city on a contract and project basis, no local office claimed. Our unarmed officers observe, document, report, and escalate; they aren't a substitute for the police.
Lodi's security work splits between the wine-country tasting rooms and event venues around School Street downtown and the agricultural and industrial properties along the SR-99 corridor. For clients here we staff unarmed patrol, event coverage with crowd-flow and parking-area management, vehicle patrol, access control, and written incident reports.
Contact ShieldWise Security for a walk-through and a proposal specific to your location. PPO #122008 , licensed, bonded, and insured.
Get a Free Quote Contact UsLodi wineries, agricultural properties, and downtown commercial blocks carry different overnight patrol and access-control profiles. The walk-through documents the specific risk hours and access points for this property before the post order is written.
We document entry points, lighting, blind spots, prior incident history if the property has it, and the hours that actually carry risk.
From that walk-through we write post orders specific to the site, so the officer is not improvising.
Officers log patrol activity through our GuardTrac digital reporting system and write up incidents during the shift, not after.
A supervisor reviews those reports, and you receive them on the schedule set in the contract.
For anything serious, you get a phone call the same shift, not a summary three days later.
"Lodi winery clients often need coverage tied to harvest season, crew schedules, and weekend tasting events. We write the post order to those specific windows, not to a year-round template that misses when the risk actually peaks."
Last reviewed: June 2026. | Member: CALSAGA.