Most cannabis losses don't happen while you're open. Across our 1,100 documented incidents at licensed dispensaries and grows in Los Angeles County, 82 percent happened between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., and the single busiest hour was 11 p.m. ValleyGuard puts live Intervention Specialists on your cameras during exactly those hours, so somebody is watching when your building is empty.
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Pry Bar at the Front Door, 5:53 AM Sherman Oaks
This clip is from 5:53 a.m. on a January morning at a Sherman Oaks dispensary. Three men come over the outer fence with a pry bar to work on the front door. Thirty-eight seconds after the first detection, our Intervention Specialist is on the speaker, telling them to leave. They keep working, so a second, harder warning goes out, and at 5:56 they run. LAPD gets called a minute later with a verified crime in progress and a live description of three suspects, which moves through dispatch differently from an alarm signal.
Panorama City, 12:43 AM: Three Warnings and a Police Call
This clip is from 12:43 a.m. on a May morning at a cannabis site in Panorama City. Multiple intruders cross the fence, and six seconds after the first detection, our Intervention Specialist is on the speakerphone. That's a live person talking to them, not a recorded siren, and they ignore her. She warns them again, then a third time when they start working on a building door, and she calls LAPD at 12:46 with a verified crime in progress. They clear the property at 12:50. Every step of that is on the record, with timestamped clips from three cameras and a written incident report showing the times, the warnings, and the dispatch reference, which is what you hand an inspector or attach to a claim.
Downtown LA, 1:11 AM: They Came for the Truck Out Front
This clip is at 1:11 am on a September morning outside a Downtown Los Angeles dispensary, and the people in frame aren't going for the shop. They're going for a U-Haul parked at the curb. That camera runs our loitering setting, where the installing technician sets a dwell time so people walking past on the sidewalk are left alone, and anyone who stops longer gets spoken to. Twenty-six seconds after they stopped, an Intervention Specialist was on the speaker, and two minutes later the block was clear.
Where We Provide Cannabis Video Surveillance for Dispensaries and Grows
We monitor licensed storefronts, grows, and distribution sites across the San Fernando Valley in Northridge, Chatsworth, Van Nuys, Sylmar, Panorama City, North Hollywood, and Sherman Oaks; on the Westside in Venice and Westwood; through the harbor in Wilmington and Long Beach; and in Downtown Los Angeles. More than 1,200 documented incidents at those sites since September 2021, 82 percent of them between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Why Los Angeles Dispensaries Choose Valley Alarm
Valley Alarm is a local licensed security company that has protected California businesses since 1981, and our Intervention Specialists are US-based and UL-listed. We're not a national platform that has never set foot in your neighborhood. Our team understands how cannabis operators actually work, how inspectors think, and how crews approach a dispensary or a grow in the real world. When something happens you get video, a written report, and people who can help you respond and prevent the next one.
What Happens When You Request a Cannabis Monitoring Quote
We start with a short call about your dispensary or grow, covering your address, your hours, your current cameras, and anything that's already happened. Then we review your floor plan or walk the site to see where cameras and speakers belong. You get a monitoring plan built around your actual risk and budget, showing which areas we cover, how we respond to each type of event, and what it costs, and once you approve it we connect your cameras and run live tests before anything goes fully online.
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