Keep every post order current — at every site, every shift.

Post orders go out of date the day an officer transfers, a contact changes, or a post moves. SOP Live keeps your security SOPs and post orders in one place, checks them for gaps and dead emergency numbers, and flags where two sites no longer agree.

Transferred officersNames & contacts that no longer reach anyone
Dead numbersEmergency lines nobody has dialed in a year
Site-to-site driftPosts that now contradict each other
The problem

The post order that's wrong when it matters most.

Post orders are written for a site as it was, then left alone while officers, contacts, and posts change around them. Here's what SOP Live catches:

Transferred officer

Still routing to someone who's gone

In an emergency, notify Site Supervisor Peter Jacobs at +1 415 555 0148.
Dead emergency line

A number nobody has dialed in a year

For a medical emergency, call the on-site clinic at ext. 2231 before calling 911.
Conflicting escalation

Two sites, two chains of command

Site A: notify Security, then the GM. — Site B: notify the duty manager, who owns first response.
Staffing assumption

A patrol that assumes officers you don't have

Two officers maintain the perimeter while a third covers the lobby desk.
What SOP Live does for security teams

Post order management that keeps the manual true.

01

One place for every post order

All your post orders and security SOPs in one library, with one current version per site.

02

Audit each post order

Flags vague steps, missing owners, and instructions an officer couldn't follow — and drafts the fix.

03

Check every emergency number

Pulls every contact a post order tells an officer to call and flags the missing, wrong, or out-of-date ones.

04

Catch sites that contradict

Finds where two sites' post orders give different escalation, reporting, or chain-of-command.

05

Push a change across sites

New post, removed guard, a shift cut from three officers to two — update every post order it affects at once.

06

Owners, reviews & a record

Every post order has an owner and a review date, and every change is logged — defensible if it's ever questioned.

Emergency contacts

The number that fails you mid-incident is the one nobody dialed in a year.

Every post order tells an officer who to call. SOP Live pulls out every number and flags the ones that are missing, wrong for the country, or out of date — and on the full plan, checks each one is still live.

Phone check · perimeter post order3 of 5 need attention
Control room · +34 971 00 00 00
OK
×
On-site clinic — no number in the post order
MISSING
×
Emergency line — "911" at a site in Spain
USE 112
!
Area supervisor — not checked in 14 months
STALE
Duty manager · +34 600 00 00 00
OK
Across sites

When two sites disagree, an officer follows the wrong one.

The same situation — an intrusion, a medical call, a refused entry — shows up in post orders across every site, and over time they drift apart. SOP Live compares them and shows you exactly where they no longer agree.

Cross-site check · intrusion response4 conflicts
HIGHWho owns the first response?
Site A post orderCall Security, then the GM
Site B post orderDuty manager owns it — no scene step
An emergency contact that's stale at one site
3 of 6 sitesName a supervisor who transferred in March
Reporting window24h at four sites, 48h at two
Defensible

After an incident, "we have post orders" isn't the same as "they were current."

Negligent-security claims turn on whether your procedures were adequate and followed. SOP Live keeps a dated record: what each post order said, what changed, who owned it, and which risk the update closed.

Ownership & history38 post orders
Perimeter · owner: M. Ruiz
REVIEWED MAY
!
Lobby access · owner: J. Pallero
DUE THIS MONTH
×
Loading dock · owner left — email bouncing
REASSIGN
Night patrol · edit approved by A. Cole
LOGGED
Common questions

Post orders & security SOPs.

What are post orders?

Post orders are the site-specific standard operating procedures that tell a security officer what to do at a given post — patrols, access control, emergency response, escalation, and who to call. They drift out of date quickly as officers, sites, and contacts change.

Is SOP Live post order management software?

Yes. SOP Live audits, drafts, and maintains post orders and security SOPs across every site — keeping owners, emergency contacts, and escalation paths current, with an audit trail of every change.

How do I keep post orders updated?

Give each post order an owner, set a review cadence, and let SOP Live flag what has drifted — transferred officers, dead numbers, removed posts, and conflicting escalation between sites — so they stay current instead of being rewritten only after an incident.

Does this help with negligent security liability?

It helps you show diligence: a dated record of what each post order said, what changed, who approved it, and which risk it closed — maintained evidence that matters when procedures are questioned after an incident.

See what SOP Live would find in one post order.

Request a review of one post order or security SOP — stale contacts, dead numbers, conflicting escalation, and suggested fixes. No deployment or setup required.

Request a post order audit Talk about your sites