Alrod was founded in 1978 by Albert W. Thweatt as an outgrowth of an opportunity to provide security services to areas of the University of Virginia. From humble beginnings employing 6 students as security guards the company has grown to become arguably the largest minority owned and operated company in Central Virginia employing over 450 persons.

The company's expertise in providing security services through armed and unarmed guards as well as surveillance systems allowed it to become:

  • A certified Small Business
  • A Preferred Provider
  • A Hub Zone company
  • A graduate of the 8(a) programme
  • A mentor to 8(a) companies under the SBA Mentor/ Protege programme
  • A top secret cleared company
Our Human Interface Security Services include:
  • Armed Guards
  • Unarmed Guards
  • Patrol Vehicle Services
  • Alarm Responses
  • Periodic Checks and surveillance
  • Strike Force
Other Centralized Station
Additional services we provide include:
  • Business & Residential Alarms
  • Business Card Access Control
  • Fire/ Smoke Detection Alarm
  • Business opening & Closing
  • Monitoring
  • Patrols
  • Telephone CCTV Monitoring

Our staff has a wide ranging skill set of Technical Services:

  • Evidence Technicians
  • Patrol Command Systems
  • Surveillance Videos, cameras and Closed Circuit Televisions
  • Photographic Identification Services

Administrative and Data Management
To support our team we :

  • Process and Assess Incident Reports
  • Provide Security Bulletins and Alerts regularly and in Emergencies
  • Prepare, Manage and Implement Security Training programmes for customers and their staff at various levels including self defense, managing natural disasters, securing against acts of terror, working with hazardous material
  • Manage sensitive data in various forms including paper based, electronic or computer generated formats including personnel and top secret information

This area is critical to security and Alrod is an expert at Investigations for

  • Criminal Background/Records
  • Commercial and Industrial Undercover Work
  • Employment and Other Background Checks

As a result of our customer driven and focused culture and reputation for excellence Alrod expanded its operations into areas where these attributes along with our competitive advantages have created exciting and lucrative business opportunities. Alrod has specialized Products and Services capable of meeting the needs of several types of entities.

Federal and State Security

As a top secret cleared company and a Preferred Provider under the GSA Schedule we are capable of handling all the services associated with the Federal and State Government including:

  • Special Entry and Exit management for military bases, ports, parks, monuments etc.
  • Special surveillance
  • Specialized Equipment including magnetometers, x-ray units, Motor vehicle examination
  • Natural Disaster prevention, management and recovery
  • Acts of Terror
  • Crowd Control

Commercial Security Services

We have developed customizable programmes capable of meeting the needs of banks, housing developments, Corporate offices, parking garages, restaurants, public outdoor venues and functions, and other such facilities.

Some specialized services include:

  • Surveillance and Patrol
  • Crowd Control
  • Bilingual Services
  • Safety and Emergency Services

College and University Security Services

Alrod has developed a Security Provision Programme for Colleges and Universities which can be customized to meet the needs of varying sized institutions.

We have become renown for our HBCU programme, which for provides quality service and is tailored to meet their budgets, funding peculiarities, historic community, special interest groups and student predilections and involvement.

Alrod's HBCU programme includes flexible and unbundled pricing for:

  • Providing unarmed and/or armed guards
  • Providing security and self defense training for staff and students
  • Technology security
  • I.D. cards
  • Community safeguarding and surveillance
  • Semi Mediation services
  • Multi lingual communication 

  
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