Vetted K9 handlers and static guards, booked directly

For handlers

K9 handlers and static guards. GuardPost never charges you a penny, and you keep 100% of the rate the client posts.

1. 1Sign up and add your documentsYour SIA licence, right to work, public liability insurance of at least £2 million, and photographs matched to your ID. K9 handlers add NASDU or BIPDT certification, the dog's microchip and transport.
2. 2Wait to be clearedA person at GuardPost checks each document against the issuer or the public register. Nothing is instant, and until every mandatory check is green you cannot apply for work — that gate is the whole point of the platform.
3. 3Find workThe board shows the town, the hours, the rate and what the site asks for. Turn on job alerts and say how far you will travel, and new jobs near you come to your phone.
4. 4Get bookedWhen a client accepts you, the full address, the gate details and the site contact are released to you, and both of you are emailed a job sheet with a calendar file — so the address is in your inbox even if the app is down on the night.
5. 5Work the shiftBook on at the gate, check in as the job asks, log anything that happens with photos, then book off and write the report. It is time-stamped, location-stamped and locked once submitted.
6. 6Get paid by the clientSign a self-billing agreement and GuardPost raises the invoice in your name, weekly. The client pays you directly — GuardPost is not allowed to receive your money and never does.

For clients

Businesses booking cover for a site. You set the rate, you choose the handler, and you see exactly what was checked before they arrive.

1. 1Post the jobDates, hours, what the site is and the hazards you know about — the law requires us to ask, and the handler is shown it before they apply. Your address stays private: the public listing shows the town only.
2. 2Set your rateGuide rates today: static guarding from £13.50 an hour, general purpose patrol from £19, drug detection from £35 and explosive detection from £40. The handler receives all of it.
3. 3Choose from vetted applicantsEach one shows their vetting, when each document expires, their reliability score and their reviews. You never do the checking; you see the result of ours.
4. 4Book and agreeYou sign a short agreement naming the dates, the rate and the amounts — one for the handler's work, one for GuardPost's fee. It is what makes an unpaid invoice collectable.
5. 5Watch the night, then sign offYou can see book-on, check-ins and anything logged as it happens. When the report arrives you have 24 hours to sign it off or raise a problem; after that it clears and is billed.
6. 6If something was wrongRaise a concern for up to 7 days. The handler answers, GuardPost decides, and both of you get the reasons. If a site was left unattended, report it and the handler cannot take new work while it is looked into.

What we check, and how often

Vetting is the product. It is also a legal defence: supplying an unlicensed operative is a criminal offence, and checking is what answers it.

• · SIA licence — read against the SIA’s public register by a person, about every 30 days.
• · Right to work in the UK — share code or original documents.
• · Public liability insurance — the certificate, re-checked twice a year.
• · Photographs matched to photo ID, and for K9 teams the dog’s certification, microchip and transport.
• · Site-specific extras when a client asks — a CSCS card, an enhanced DBS check, BS 7858 screening.

A document stops counting the day it expires, automatically — the handler comes off every job that asks for it without anybody having to notice. What we cannot do is see a licence suspended this morning: the register is read monthly, not live. It is public, so a client can check the badge at the gate themselves.

Who pays whom

Two payments to two businesses, and GuardPost is only ever one of them.

• · The client pays the handler for the work, on an invoice raised in the handler’s name.
• · The client pays GuardPost for the introduction — 12% as standard, 15% for urgent cover, 8% for a booking of five shifts or more, and 5% once the same pair have ten shifts behind them.
• · Handlers are charged nothing, ever. That is the law for an employment agency, and it is also the deal.
• · Billing runs weekly, Monday to Sunday, after the work is signed off. Cancelled and unworked shifts are not billed.

Direct Debit is not set up yet, so each invoice says how to pay it. Because GuardPost never holds a handler’s money, it cannot pay them if a client does not — what protects a handler instead is who we let book: a company checked on Companies House, and no more bookings while a fee is unpaid.

Reliability, in plain numbers

One score, visible to clients, built from what actually happened.

• · Everybody starts on 100. A completed shift is +2.
• · Cancelling with 24 hours’ notice or more costs 3; inside that, 12. Not turning up costs 30.
• · Leaving early costs by how much of the shift was left, from 2 to 25 — and nothing at all if the client stood you down.
• · Below 60 you cannot apply for or be booked on work.

What GuardPost does not do

Said plainly, because the opposite is what people assume.

• · No monitoring. Nobody watches a screen while a shift runs. Check-ins are a record read afterwards, not a safety line — handlers keep their own lone-worker arrangements, and in an emergency the number is 999.
• · No employment. Handlers are self-employed and work under the client’s direction on site.
• · No holding of money. Wages go straight from the client to the handler.