Ocean Growth Security provides school security services in Dubai for private schools, nurseries, training centres and university campuses. School security has one clear priority: knowing who is on the premises, and knowing where the children are at every point in the day.
Our officers work to the school’s own routine — drop-off, break, dismissal, buses, after-school activities and evening events — and they are briefed on child protection requirements as well as access control.
An officer at a school gate is in a position of trust, and the standard is higher than at a commercial site. Our staff are screened before deployment, briefed on the school’s safeguarding policy, and clear that they do not take a child off the premises, do not release a child to an unverified adult, and do not discuss a child with anyone who is not authorised.
Where a school has a specific concern — a custody dispute, a known risk to a pupil, a previous attempt to collect a child — that is written into the post order and briefed to every officer on the post, not just the one who was on duty when it happened.
Security at a school succeeds or fails in the ten minutes before the bell and the ten minutes after it. We build the rota around the school’s timetable rather than a flat eight-hour shift, so there are more officers on the gate at drop-off and dismissal and fewer in the middle of the day when the campus is contained.
We also agree the drill and emergency procedure with the school in advance. If the campus has to be locked down, the officer’s job is defined: hold the entry point, control the corridor or gate they are responsible for, and account for who came in.
Ocean Growth Security is a SIRA-licensed Dubai company. Our officers hold the licences their posts require, work to a written post order and are supervised on a set inspection cycle. Every contract has a named supervisor who is the school’s first point of contact.
We work with private schools, nurseries and early years centres, training institutes, language and tutoring centres and university campuses across Dubai, including Deira, Bur Dubai, Al Barsha, Jumeirah, Mirdif, Silicon Oasis and Dubai South.
Do you provide female officers for nursery and early years posts? Where a post requires a female officer we will confirm at the scoping stage whether we can staff the hours you need.
Can your officers cover only the gates, or do they patrol too? Both. The common arrangement is a staffed main gate plus a patrol officer covering the perimeter and car parks on a logged route.
Can you cover school holidays? Yes. Holiday cover is usually scoped down to a smaller presence, since the campus is contained but still holds equipment and records.
If you are reviewing school access control, preparing for an inspection, or covering a new term, contact us and we will walk the campus with you before proposing anything.
