Montreal, Quebec
BSP-licensed, bilingual security guards for commercial, corporate, residential and industrial sites across Greater Montreal — dispatched 24/7 from our Cavendish HQ.
Call our Montréal team514-279-7209$29–$40 / hour
Per guard, depending on the post, training and schedule.
Get my exact price1 · Services
2 · Local proof
A 3-day music festival in Montreal (25,000 daily attendees) ran with zero evacuations, zero pit-crush incidents and sub-4-minute medical response — here's how.
Read the case study3 · Coverage
Our Montreal guard operation covers every borough and greater-Montreal suburb from the same Cavendish dispatch.
Office towers, condos, retail podiums, hotel lobbies — Ville-Marie, Place Ville Marie, Quartier international.
Boutique commercial, restaurant-bar licence control, condo concierge on Saint-Denis and Saint-Laurent.
Industrial parks, warehouse gate-posts, Décarie complex, corporate campuses.
Retail, condo towers along the canal, commercial lock-up, event facilities.
Hospitals, student residences, McGill/Université-de-Montréal adjacent properties.
Industrial, port-adjacent, light manufacturing, mixed retail/residential.
Carrefour Laval, Dix30 Brossard, Longueuil office parks — same dispatch, same SLAs.
Pointe-Claire, DDO, Kirkland — corporate campuses, retail, residential condo.
4 · Local services
Every service below has its own Montréal page, with local details and answers to common questions.
| Service | Typical sites | Local page |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile patrol | GPS-tracked rounds and alarm response | Mobile patrol in Montréal |
| Event security | Festivals, concerts, galas and conferences | Event security in Montréal |
| Construction site security | Gatehouse, night watch and theft prevention | Construction site security in Montréal |
| Security guard services | Static posts, front desks and access control | Security guard services in Montréal |
| Fire watch security | Hot work, impaired fire systems, inspections | Fire watch security in Montréal |
| Concierge security | Lobby desks, visitors and parcels | Concierge security in Montréal |
| Condo security | Concierge, overnight patrol and parking | Condo security in Montréal |
| Residential security | Condos, rental buildings and estates | Residential security in Montréal |
| Commercial security | Office towers, retail and industrial sites | Commercial security in Montréal |
| Retail security | Stores, malls and big-box retail | Retail security in Montréal |
| Loss prevention | Uniformed and plain-clothes agents | Loss prevention in Montréal |
| Private security | Discreet protection for homes and families | Private security in Montréal |
| Bodyguard | Close protection for executives and VIPs | Bodyguard in Montréal |
| Security agency | Licensed agency for short- and long-term contracts | Security agency in Montréal |
| Security company | One provider for guards, patrol and events | Security company in Montréal |
5 · How we deploy
Our Montreal operations manager visits your site to map entry points, shift ratios, post orders and bilingual requirements specific to your borough.
We write post-order documents, ratios and schedules aligned to CNESST, BSP and your insurer's expectations — fixed quote within 24 hours.
Guards are matched to the site — language profile, industry experience, physical requirements — and briefed on-site before shift one.
GPS patrol logs, timestamped digital incident reports and weekly supervisor site visits — all accessible through your client portal.
6 · Reviews
Reviews from the businesses and organizations that trust Vision with their security.
“Very great company, if not the best in the field.”
Arnaud Bellemare · Property Manager, Ascentia
“Fantastic service, great team! Vision Security has been our trusted partner for equipment site protection. Their guards are vigilant, professional, and understand the unique challenges of our industry.”
Johnny Makris · CEO, Loc Equip
“We work with this company, and their professionalism is impeccable. We have never regretted choosing them. Our collaboration with the agent Mamadou is exceptional: he is serious, competent, and highly professional in his work.”
Celina Bouatmane · Director, Otika Services
7 · Why Vision — Montréal
Hiring a security guard in Montreal is not just about filling a post — it's about placing a trained, BSP-licensed, bilingual professional who represents your business, de-escalates incidents before they become liabilities, and produces the documentation your insurer and the Ville de Montréal require. Vision Security was founded in Montreal and our dispatch sits on Boul Cavendish, which means faster vetting, faster replacements, and closer supervision than any out-of-province provider. Every guard we deploy in Montreal is individually licensed by the Bureau de la sécurité privée, background-checked, insured, and briefed on the specific protocols of your site.
Every Vision Security guard working a post in Montreal holds a current individual licence issued by Quebec's Bureau de la sécurité privée. That licence covers criminal-record verification, mandatory training hours, and annual re-validation. Hiring a guard without a valid BSP agent card exposes you, your insurer and the property owner to provincial fines and contract-voiding liability — we will not place an unlicensed body on your site.
In Montreal, a guard who can only operate in one official language fails at the door. All our Montreal guards conduct visitor intake, incident reports and emergency communication in both French and English — no exceptions. Trilingual guards (French/English/Spanish or Arabic) are staffable on request for multi-tenant buildings in Côte-des-Neiges, Saint-Laurent and Parc-Extension.
If a scheduled guard calls in sick at 2am on your Plateau condo post, our Cavendish dispatch pushes a replacement from our on-call Montreal bench within the hour. That's something no Toronto- or Ontario-based provider can promise on a Montreal site — and it's the single biggest reason our Montreal clients stay with us.
Every Montreal post is documented: hour-by-hour logs, digital incident reports, photo-linked patrol checkpoints, CNESST coverage for our guards, and $5M liability insurance. When your insurer or the Régie asks for records, we produce them in the format they expect.
8 · Questions
Yes. Every guard we deploy in Montreal holds a current individual licence from Quebec's Bureau de la sécurité privée (BSP). We verify the licence status in the BSP registry before every placement and re-verify on renewal.
Yes. We staff Montreal posts from 4-hour one-offs (event lock-up, moves, hearings) up to 24/7 multi-year contracts. Short-term coverage is typically dispatched within 24 hours.
Yes. All Montreal guards operate in French and English. Trilingual guards (e.g., French/English/Spanish, French/English/Arabic) are available on request for multi-tenant buildings.
Professional BSP-licensed guards in Montreal typically run $29–$40 per hour depending on post type, training level, equipment and shift premiums. Unarmed static corporate posts sit at the lower end; event, executive-protection and high-risk posts at the upper end. Anything under $29/hr in Montreal is a red flag for under-insured or under-licensed providers.
Yes. Our Montreal dispatch covers all of Greater Montreal including Laval, Longueuil, Brossard, Boucherville, Saint-Laurent and the West Island under the same contract and response SLAs.
Yes, subject to BSP authorization and client-side due diligence. Armed deployments require specific permit conditions, and we'll walk you through the documentation before deployment.
Our Cavendish dispatch is notified instantly, and a replacement is dispatched from our Montreal standby bench. Contractual SLA is under one hour in Greater Montreal; any missed hours are refunded.
Share your site address, hours and shift requirements — we'll return a BSP-compliant post-order plan and fixed quote within 24 hours.
Call our Montréal team514-279-7209Montréal headquarters
Suite 620-3285 Boul. Cavendish Montréal, QC H4B 2L9
Nearby: Laval · Trois-Rivières · Québec City · Ottawa · Toronto · Niagara Falls
All services: Security guards · Mobile patrol · Event security · Construction security · Loss prevention · Residential security · Commercial security · Fire watch · Hospitality security
