What a verified patrol record looks like
ARMS Technologies · September 26, 2026
This is one real weekday night shift on a construction site, from 6 PM to 6 AM, taken from an ARMS report. The guard's name has been changed. Here is how to read it.
The four numbers at the top
- Slots patrolled: 6 of 8. The contract splits the shift into eight 90-minute slots. Four were fully covered and two partly; two had no patrol at all.
- Rounds walked: 10 across the 12 hours.
- Checkpoints reached: 36 of 38. Two were never reached this shift, and one of them has no record on any recent round, which suggests it may be unreachable and worth checking.
- Longest unwatched: 1 hour 29 minutes, from 10:29 PM to 11:59 PM. A slot is 90 minutes, so this stretch was almost a full slot with no coverage.
The coverage strip
Below the numbers is a timeline of the whole shift. Green ticks are verified patrol activity; pink is time with no verified coverage; dark red marks gaps long enough to have fitted another full round. Most people understand the shift from this strip in five seconds.
Rounds credited to when they were walked
Some rounds were filed well after they were walked, in some cases more than an hour later, during a later slot. ARMS credits each round to the slot in which it was actually walked, and shows the filing delay beside it. A late filing cannot make an empty slot look covered.
Why the record can be trusted
Staff position is recorded continuously and automatically, indoors and out; nothing has to be tapped. Where a site does use tapped checkpoints, each tap is checked against three independent location signals, so a copied code used from the wrong place fails. Every record carries the time it happened and the time ARMS received it, and a submitted record can only be added to, never edited.
What to do with it
A report like this is not a verdict on anyone. It is a shared, factual starting point for a conversation between the owner, the property manager and the security provider about what the contract promises and what the site is getting.