Our Story

Always Vigilant. Never Compromised.
built.

Founded

2018

Headquarters

Brampton

Licensing Authority

Private Security and Investigative Services Branch (PSISB), Ministry of the Solicitor General, Ontario

Our Promise

Stand guard. Communicate clearly.

The Founding Story

A company built to be beyond ordinary security.

Survivors Protective Services didn't begin with a grand thesis. It began with a frustration one shared by dozens of Ontario property managers, contractors, and event organizers we'd worked alongside over the years.

The security industry, for all its uniformed seriousness, had quietly become a race to the bottom. Guards hired on Monday, deployed Tuesday, gone by Friday. Dispatch calls routed to overseas call centres. Subcontractors sent in place of the personnel you actually signed a contract with. “Trust me, we patrolled” in place of any real reporting. Coverage gaps no one owned. And every year, premiums that somehow went up anyway.

"We kept meeting clients who had three horror stories, one lukewarm provider, and no faith that the fourth company would be any different."

We founded Survivors in 2018 with a narrow, stubborn commitment: to be the opposite of all of that. Our guards would be employees, not gig workers. Our dispatch would be staffed by humans we could name. Every shift would be logged, photographed, and reported. Every client would have one phone number and one person who picks up.We started small  a handful of construction sites in Ontario and Brampton and grew the way trust grows: one renewed contract at a time. Six years later, we’re a thousand-person operation protecting residential towers, industrial yards, corporate campuses, and some of Ontario’s most reputation-sensitive environments. But the commitment hasn’t drifted.

Because the moment it does is the moment we become the company we built Survivors to replace.

Work With Us

Surveillance & Peace of Mind.

What we do, every day.

Deliver dependable, technology-driven protective services to Ontario properties, people, and projects — executed by trained guards, backed by transparent reporting, and held to a standard we’d accept at our own homes and sites.

Where we're going.

To become Ontario’s most trusted private security partner — not through scale alone, but through a reputation for showing up, reporting honestly, and refusing to let our growth outpace our standards.

Why we exist.

Because safety isn’t a product line — it’s a promise people make to their tenants, their crews, their residents, and their guests. Our job is to help those promises hold, shift after shift, without anyone noticing we were there.

 

Core Values

Four principles
we won't negotiate.

Values are only useful when they have teeth — when they make hiring decisions harder, deployment decisions slower, and contract decisions occasionally unprofitable. These are the five we’ve accepted the cost of.

Accountability

We own what goes right and what goes wrong. No blame-shifting to "the contractor," "the system," or "the other shift." Every incident has a name on it.

Transparency

Logs, reports, photos, timestamps — all available to you in real time. If we can't show what happened, we treat it as though it didn't happen.

Professionalism

Uniforms pressed. Reports filed. Clients addressed with respect. The standard is consistency — what looks like effort once is table stakes with us.

Inclusivity

We hire for character and train for skill. Our team mirrors the communities we protect, because trust is built where people see themselves represented.

Licensed · Insured · Compliant

Credentials,verified.

We are a fully licensed, insured, and compliant Ontario security firm — and we’re happy to share documentation with any prospective client before the first contract is signed.

 

PSISA Licensed

Registered under Ontario's Private Security & Investigative Services Act.

$5M Liability

Comprehensive general liability insurance, with certificate available on request.

WSIB Registered

Every guard fully covered under Workplace Safety & Insurance Board.

CPIC Cleared

All personnel cleared through Canadian Police Information Centre.

First Aid & CPR

Every deployed guard holds current First Aid and CPR certification.

Ontario Fire Code

Fire Watch services fully compliant with Ontario Fire Code requirements.

Book 7 Certified

Traffic control operations certified under Ontario Traffic Manual Book 7.

Ongoing Training

Internal Survivors team ensures quarterly professional development.

In the Community

Community

Built in Ontario. Invested. in Ontario.

We don’t operate from a call centre in another province. Our leadership lives, hires, and builds in the same communities we protect — across the Ontario.

Survivors actively partners with local skills-training programs, supports hiring from newcomer communities, and sponsors safety initiatives with municipal organizations. Our team mirrors Ontario’s cultural fabric by design, not by accident.

When you hire Survivors, you’re hiring neighbours — and reinvesting in the very communities your properties, projects, and people belong to.

Work With Us

Let's talk about what you're protecting.

Whether you’re dealing with coverage gaps, outgrew your current provider, or are just starting to evaluate security partners — we’d rather have an honest conversation than send a templated pitch deck.