Warehouse Video Monitoring
in Toronto
Warehouses and distribution centres in Toronto keep loaded trailers and dock doors exposed between shifts, and the logistics corridors of the GTA are where much of that freight waits. Riowell guards watch Toronto warehouses live after the shift, with your yard schedule in the protocol so that a tractor arriving off schedule is the call that gets made.
A warehouse is busiest when it is staffed and most exposed when it is not: loaded trailers on the yard, dock doors along one wall, and a fence line that runs behind the building. The losses that hurt are a trailer hooked up and pulled away overnight, or a dock door worked open on a weekend. Riowell guards watch the docks, the trailer yard and the perimeter live once the last shift leaves, so a tractor arriving when nothing is scheduled is seen while it is still at the gate.
What the Toronto Police Service figures say
In 2025 Statistics Canada recorded 5,835 break-and-enters in the Toronto Police Service area, all property types combined: 178.34 per 100,000 people, a change of −11.05% on the year before.
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0180-01 (2025)Toronto Police have required an alarm to be verified before they respond since 10 September 2018. A guard who has watched the event on camera is a verified call.
Source: Police alarm-response policies, summarised in our verified-response notesÉquité Association names Toronto among the top five cargo theft hotspots in Canada, with Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Toronto and Montreal.
Source: Équité Association, Cargo and Heavy Equipment Theft Trend Report (2024)
On warehouses and distribution centres, the zones that matter
Loading docks
Dock doors and levellers when the building is closed, and anyone working at a door from outside.
The trailer yard
Tractors arriving off schedule, and anyone at a parked trailer's doors or kingpin.
The fence line and gates
The perimeter behind the building, and vehicles at the gate after hours.
Entrances and the office
Staff doors, the office and any area where high-value stock is kept.
If the site runs some shifts and not others, the protocol follows your schedule. The recorder on site keeps recording if the internet drops, every event a guard logs becomes a clip with its time and camera, and you see the cameras and clips in your own app.
Written with you before monitoring starts
- Monitoring hours that follow your shift pattern, weekends and holidays.
- Expected yard moves and carriers, so a scheduled pickup is not flagged.
- Who is called first: the operations manager on call, then police when a theft is seen in progress.
Survey, install, then monitoring
- 01
Site survey
We walk your property, ideally once after dark, and look at each camera as a live view rather than a recording: what a guard could actually see and act on. We check the site's internet connection and where people really get in.
- 02
Install
Our own technicians install or adjust cameras where a view can't be acted on, fit the recorder that keeps recording on site, and set up your app. Where your existing cameras are up to it, we use them.
- 03
Monitoring starts
Your site, camera map and protocol go to the guards, and monitoring starts. We review the first week of events with you and tune the zones so your phone rings for things that matter.
Sites we survey in Toronto and the GTA
- Downtown Core
- North York
- Scarborough
- Etobicoke
- East York
- York
- Midtown
- Liberty Village
- Leslieville
- The Junction
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Tell us about your site. We book a survey, tell you camera by camera what a guard can act on, and quote the monthly service in writing.
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