How to Hire a Drone Security Company
A step-by-step brief for buying drone patrols, alarm response or event overwatch — and the evidence to ask for before you sign.
Start with the threat, not the drone
Write down what you are protecting against: theft from a laydown yard, trespass on a solar farm, vandalism at night, crowd safety at an event. The threat decides the patrol pattern, the sensors (thermal, zoom, spotlight, loudspeaker) and whether you need a person on site, a remote pilot or a drone-in-a-box system.
Decide the operating model
Options include a guard company that adds drone patrols to existing officers, a dedicated drone patrol service that flies scheduled or alarm-triggered missions, a drone-in-a-box system you buy or lease and monitor yourself, or a tethered drone for persistent overwatch at events and incidents.
Ask for evidence
Ask for the FAA Part 107 certificates of the pilots, any night, over-people or BVLOS waivers relevant to your site, the state security contractor or guard licence where your state requires one, liability insurance that covers aviation and security work, and references from sites similar to yours.
Compare on the same brief
Send every provider the same site size, hours, threat and response expectations, and compare patrol frequency, response time, what is recorded and kept, reporting, integration with your alarm or video system, and monthly cost.
Ready to compare providers?
Describe your project once and get quotes from suitable drone security providers.