Security operations, surveillance, investigations, executive protection, and risk management for any business that carries real risk: multi-site groups, retail and grocery operations, hospitality, and family-owned companies. The standard was forged on the casino floor, and that practice has its own page. This one is for everyone else.
One integrated protective practice: the building, the cameras that watch it, and the people the business cannot afford to lose.
The full protective operation of a business, designed and run as one system. Staffing models sized to the site, the hours, and the risk rather than to habit. Post orders and procedures a team can actually follow on a hard night. A customer-facing posture that reassures the right people and deters the wrong ones without turning the front door into a checkpoint.
Emergency response planning, asset protection, and workplace violence prevention are built into the program rather than bolted on. Where a department has drifted, or was never built at all, the firm assesses candidly and builds it: leadership, structure, training, equipment, and the reporting an owner needs to trust it.
Use of force, firearms, and less-lethal programs. The moment an employee puts hands on a customer is the moment a business's liability is decided. Richard Acosta is TASER certified by Axon, current through 2026, NRA certified, and a CCW instructor registered with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. For armed teams he delivers firearms training and qualification and supplies the armed guard policies and procedures to stand behind them; for every team he builds use-of-force policy, deployment standards, training cadence, and post-incident documentation so a defensible decision on the floor is still defensible in a deposition. The full training practice, from report writing to the security academy, lives on the Training & Resources page.
K9 programs. Detection and patrol capability for businesses and events that need presence without a heavier posture. Richard has run every part of a working K9 program, from standard operating procedures and budget to handler hiring, training, and daily operations.
Camera systems are only as good as their design, their coverage, and the people reviewing them. The firm designs and audits surveillance for businesses of any size, evaluates whether the system actually watches what matters, and builds the retention and review practices that make footage useful the day it is needed.
Investigations of theft, fraud, and internal loss are delivered by someone who has led thousands of them, many in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, and the working relationships remain. Technology and system selection is handled on the owner's side of the table, with no vendor relationship to protect.
Owners, principals, senior executives, and their families carry a different exposure than the business does, and it rarely stays inside the building. The firm designs and oversees protective programs for the people an enterprise cannot afford to lose: threat assessment of persons of concern, close protection for public appearances and travel, residential and office security, and protocols for the moments when a disgruntled customer, a terminated employee, or a stranger with a grievance becomes a real concern.
Programs are discreet by design. Good executive protection is felt by the principal as ease, not as an entourage.
The discipline that pays for itself. Threat and vulnerability assessments that identify where a business is exposed before a claim, an auditor, or a thief does. Insurance and claims exposure reduction that insurers and brokers recognize, because the controls are documented, not described. Liability mitigation that closes the gaps negligent security claims are built on.
Internal theft and fraud controls across cash handling, inventory, receiving, and procurement, built for the way loss actually moves through a business. It is the same control discipline that protects casino cages and count rooms, sized for the operation in front of it.
The casino floor is the hardest room in the world to protect.
Cash-heavy, open to the public, running around the clock, watched by regulators and plaintiff attorneys alike: nothing tests a security program the way a casino does. Every service on this page was built and proven there, then carried to grocery groups, retail operations, and family-owned businesses that want the same standard without the casino overhead. The gaming practice itself, from game protection to tribal gaming, lives on its own page.
When a need sits outside the practice, connecting the client with the right specialist is treated as part of the engagement, not a referral out the door.
Multi-site groups, retail and grocery operations, hospitality, and family-owned companies that want the standard the strongest operators demand, sized and priced for the operation in front of it, alongside the gaming operators the firm was built for.
Defense and plaintiff attorneys handling security and surveillance matters, and the insurers and brokers who underwrite the risk.
Most engagements begin with the assessment. The first conversation is private and carries no obligation.