Event security in Burnaby

Burnaby sits between Vancouver and the Fraser region, with Metrotown, Brentwood and a dense industrial south side that all need consistent after-hours coverage.

Xtreme provides event security across Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed, with officers assigned to regional retail and office. Typical work includes gate and bag-check control, crowd monitoring and floor and perimeter posts, supervised in real time by the 24/7 National Security Operations Centre.

When the crowd is dense, there is no room for improvisation. Event security is planned with the venue and supervised live from the 24/7 NSOC. In Burnaby, that means a programme written for this geography — the travel between Metrotown and Lougheed, and the difference between a daytime post at regional retail and an after-hours run around high-tech campuses.

Every programme is scoped precisely to your site after a free security assessment.

Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed concentrate regional retail, office space and transit-oriented towers along the same SkyTrain spine, so a Burnaby programme has to move between a mall floor, a tower lobby and a station-adjacent public realm without lowering the standard.

The Big Bend industrial area on the south side of the city, the approaches to Burnaby Mountain and the high-tech and film sites between them are a different assignment from the retail core. Edmonds and the industrial parks need patrol and yard coverage written for those streets, not a copy of a Metrotown post order.

High-tech campuses and film studios in Burnaby are workplace sites, not extensions of the Metrotown or Brentwood retail floor. Lougheed's transit-oriented towers sit on the same SkyTrain spine and still need a residential briefing rather than a mall briefing.

Edmonds and the Burnaby Mountain approaches are quieter, local geographies beside a city that is often described only in terms of its shopping centres. Big Bend keeps industrial yards and freight doors in the same municipal picture, and the post order has to name which of those the officer is actually walking.

Metrotown and Brentwood can look similar on a map and still fail as copies of one another once a post is a tower lobby rather than a retail floor. Lougheed, Edmonds and Big Bend then pull the same city toward transit-oriented housing and industrial yards respectively.

A Metrotown retail floor and a Big Bend yard are both Burnaby, and that is about as far as the similarity should be allowed to run.

What officers actually do in Burnaby

At regional retail, the brief starts with gate and bag-check control. At office, crowd monitoring usually leads. High-tech campuses in and around Metrotown often adds floor and perimeter posts. Across the metro, these are the elements we scope after walking the site:

• Advance planning with the promoter or venue
• Gate, bag-check and queue management
• Crowd monitoring and floor teams
• Back-of-house and VIP routes
• Egress and incident response
• A post-event report supervised by the 24/7 NSOC

The mix is confirmed on a free security assessment of the actual property in Burnaby.

Officers posted in Burnaby work under British Columbia licence B6594. Every officer on post holds the required worker licence before the first shift.

Coverage in Burnaby is supported from our Vancouver office at 1200 W 73rd Ave, #1100, Vancouver, BC V6P 6G5, with 24/7 backup from the NSOC.

Behind every event security post in Burnaby stands a firm of 4,500+ full-time staff, a network of 17,000+ licensed officers, 40+ offices, 270+ patrol units and a 24/7 National Security Operations Centre.

Related coverage in Burnaby

See also Mobile patrol · Construction security · Loss prevention · Fire watch · Concierge security in Burnaby, the security guard services in Burnaby overview, Event security as a service, and the British Columbia service area.

Nearby service areas: Vancouver · Coquitlam · Surrey.

Frequently asked questions

Can Xtreme deliver event security in Burnaby?

Yes. Xtreme provides event security in Burnaby, British Columbia, with 24/7 NSOC supervision.

Are officers in Burnaby licensed?

Officers posted in Burnaby work under British Columbia licence B6594. Every officer on post holds the required worker licence before the first shift.

What does an event security programme in Burnaby include?

Typical elements include advance planning with the promoter or venue; gate, bag-check and queue management; crowd monitoring and floor teams; back-of-house and VIP routes; egress and incident response; a post-event report supervised by the 24/7 NSOC. A free security assessment in Burnaby confirms the mix for the site.

What’s the first step for event security in Burnaby?

Call 1-800-730-3712 (Press 1 Canada, 2 USA, 3 Australia) and ask for a free security assessment in Burnaby. We will walk the property, confirm the brief and put a supervised team in place.

What other services can you run in Burnaby?

Alongside event security, we also provide uniformed guards, mobile patrol, loss prevention, construction security, fire watch and concierge security. Each is scoped to the site.

How is coverage in Burnaby supported?

Coverage in Burnaby is supported from our Vancouver office at 1200 W 73rd Ave, #1100, Vancouver, BC V6P 6G5, with 24/7 backup from the NSOC.