Est. 2021 · Rapid City, South Dakota · Butte and Billings, Montana
From a bar door in Rapid City to a federal post in Montana.
Odin’s Gate Guards staffs armed and unarmed posts, mobile patrol, fire watch and event security across South Dakota and Montana. Every shift comes back with a log.
Same day
Sprinkler down, alarm out, or a post to fill tonight?
Fire watch and emergency callouts go on the phone, not in a form. The line is answered around the clock.
What we staff
Eight services, and an honest answer about which one you need.
Most people calling a security company already know something is wrong but not what to buy. These pages say what each service actually involves, who it is for, and when it is the wrong choice.
Same day
Fire watch
Your sprinkler, alarm or standpipe is down and the fire marshal wants a watch posted tonight.
What this involves →Armed or unarmed
Event security
Staffing, entry control and crowd management for a date on the calendar.
What this involves →Armed or unarmed
Mobile patrol
A marked vehicle checking your property on an irregular schedule through the night.
What this involves →Armed
Armed guards
Armed officers for posts where the risk, the client or the insurer requires it.
What this involves →Armed or unarmed
On-site guards
A standing post — someone at your door, gate or desk for a defined shift.
What this involves →Unarmed
Bar and nightlife security
Door, ID and floor coverage for venues that serve late.
What this involves →Armed or unarmed
Construction site security
Copper, tools, fuel and equipment, watched overnight and through shutdowns.
What this involves →Unarmed
Background checks
Pre-employment and tenant screening for Black Hills businesses.
What this involves →
Federal past performance
We hold armed-guard contracts you can look up.
Most security companies ask you to take their word for it. Ours is a matter of public record — two Federal Emergency Management Agency awards for Level II armed guard services, supporting disaster response on the Crow reservation in Montana.
70FBR825C00000002
$723,072
Level II armed guards and officers, disaster declaration DR-4847, Crow Tribe of Montana.
Federal Emergency Management Agency · December 9, 2024 – April 28, 2026
Verify on USAspending.gov ↗70FBR826C00000004
$343,200
Level II armed guard security services, disaster declaration DR-4847, Crow Tribe of Montana.
Federal Emergency Management Agency · April 28, 2026 – October 26, 2026
Verify on USAspending.gov ↗
KOTA Territory News · 26 March 2024 · Reported by Adrian Carbajal
Two television stations covered what happened downtown.
We work the doors at Press Start, Paddy’s, Murphy's and Aby’s, and patrol between them at no charge. Here is what the venue manager and our owner told the reporter.
“I have seen a major cutback in weapons coming into the bar. I have seen a major step up in the community of respecting us and actually caring about people's safety.”
Judge Hutto
Manager, Press Start
KOTA Territory News, 26 March 2024 ↗“We have been able in the last two almost three years of operation to cut calls to the RCPD at our locations by an average of 75%.”
Rockwell Peterson
Owner / Operator, Odin’s Gate Guards
KOTA Territory News, 26 March 2024 ↗Note on the 75% figure: that is our owner’s own count, given to a reporter in March 2024. The Rapid City Police Department has not published a number of its own, and we are not presenting it as theirs.
Where we work
Three offices, and a straight answer about the gaps.
A guard has to physically get to your site, so coverage is a drive-time question. These are the offices officers actually dispatch from and the towns each one genuinely reaches.
Headquarters
Rapid City, South Dakota
Headquarters, and where the company started. The downtown contracts KOTA reported on are worked out of here.
Reaches
Rapid City · Box Elder · Sturgis · Spearfish · Deadwood · Lead · Belle Fourche · Custer · Hill City · Hot Springs · Wall
Office
Butte, Montana
Opened in August 2024 when we acquired the Timberline Security business, along with its premises and its Butte phone line.
Reaches
Butte · Anaconda · Deer Lodge · Dillon · Helena · Bozeman
Office
Billings, Montana
Covers south-central Montana and the Bighorn corridor, including the disaster-response work on the Crow reservation.
Reaches
Billings · Laurel · Hardin · Red Lodge · Columbus
Next step
Tell us what you are protecting.
Two questions about the site and two about how to reach you. If it is urgent, skip the form and call — the line is answered around the clock.