Armed security in Austin, TX
Ophion Tactical Security provides armed security officers, event security and Level IV executive protection in Austin and Travis, Williamson and Hays counties.
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How Ophion works in Austin
Ophion Tactical Security is a Texas-licensed security company (Texas DPS license B28459401) that staffs armed security programs, events and protection assignments in the Austin area. Armed posts and patrols are staffed by Level III commissioned security officers. Protection assignments are staffed by Level IV Personal Protection Officers.
What a site needs depends on where it sits. Downtown and north Austin, around the Domain, are mostly office and mixed-use property with lobbies, loading docks and shared entrances. Along I-35 and US 183, toward Round Rock, Cedar Park, Kyle and San Marcos, the work is more often job sites, warehouses, schools, churches and dealerships with open lots and a perimeter.
Either way it starts the same. We learn how the property runs, often on a site walk with you, and write post orders for it before an officer is scheduled. Officers work under field supervision, and reports reach the point of contact you name.
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Three disciplines. One standard.
What Ophion does in this market, by discipline. Each assignment is scoped with you before anyone is scheduled.
Commercial armed security in Austin
For a property that needs armed officers week after week, Ophion sets up a security program instead of filling a post. In the Austin area that covers commercial property and offices, construction sites, private schools, churches, warehouses and automotive dealerships.
Active construction sites create access-control, theft and after-hours monitoring challenges. A job-site program usually combines gate access control during working hours with after-hours coverage or mobile patrol. The post orders say who may enter, what gets logged and who is called.
Not sure whether you need a posted officer or patrols? Read about armed security officers, or tell us about the site and we scope it with you.
Event security in Austin
Ophion provides Level III event security in Austin for weddings, private and brand events and festivals and conventions. Pour Vous Entertainment Group, which produces weddings, private events and festivals across Texas, uses Ophion for its Austin and Dallas events. The Pour Vous case study describes how officers work with the event team and venue staff.
Public events on city streets and parkland are permitted through the Austin Center for Events. Its planning guide says the Austin Police Department sets the minimum number of police officers, expects a security plan and allows organizers to hire a Texas-licensed security company. Ophion can staff that private security and plan it with your venue or organizer.
Executive protection in Austin
Ophion Tactical Security provides Level IV Personal Protection Officers in Austin and the surrounding counties for executives, public figures and private families. Agents are assigned to the person, not to a post, and work in a suit and tie or plainclothes to fit the setting: an office, a dinner, a public appearance or a residence.
Assignments are planned around the principal’s schedule, with advance work on venues, entrances, exits and routes scaled to what that schedule involves. At Pour Vous Entertainment Group events in Austin, Ophion adds Level IV personal protection when an event calls for it.
To start, send the dates and locations. Names and sensitive details can wait until we talk. Read more about executive protection in Texas.
Licensed by Texas DPS.
Private security in Texas is regulated by the Department of Public Safety under Occupations Code Chapter 1702. The state licenses the company, and an officer needs a state commission to work armed.
Company license B28459401
Ophion Tactical Security LLC is licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Look it up in the state’s license search.
Level III · Commissioned security officer
Texas requires a security officer commission before an officer may carry a firearm on duty. Ophion’s armed security officers hold it.
Level IV · Personal protection officer
A separate state license for protecting an individual while armed. It is issued only to someone who already holds a commission.
What clients say on Google.
Ophion Tactical Security holds a 5.0 rating from 17 reviews on Google. These are highlights from three of them, from clients across Texas.
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17 Google reviews
Review highlights are quoted from Ophion’s Google Business Profile. An ellipsis (…) marks where a review was shortened. Rating and count as of October 2026.
Work in this market
Event security for Pour Vous Entertainment Group
Ophion Tactical Security provides Level III event security and, when required, Level IV personal protection for Pour Vous events in Austin and Dallas.
Pour Vous has continued to use Ophion for weddings, private events and other productions
Local answers.
What people ask before they hire security here. If yours isn’t listed, ask us directly.
(512) 766-8962
Ophion works in Austin and in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, including Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Georgetown, Kyle and San Marcos. For a site farther out, tell us the location and we confirm whether we can staff it.
The State of Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety regulates private security under Occupations Code Chapter 1702 and licenses both security companies and individual officers. Ophion Tactical Security holds Texas DPS license B28459401, which anyone can check in the state’s online license search.
It depends on the event. The Austin Center for Events planning guide says the police department sets the minimum number of police officers, expects a security plan and allows organizers to hire a Texas-licensed security company. Ophion can staff that private security and plan it with your organizer.
Gate access control during working hours, after-hours coverage or vehicle patrols, incident reporting and supervisor checks. The post orders say who may enter, what is logged and who is called, and they are written for your site.
Where we work.
Travis, Williamson and Hays counties
Downtown, East Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Georgetown, Kyle and San Marcos
Ophion in Texas
Armed security officers
A security program for your property: Level III security officers on posts and patrols, working from post orders written for your site.
Event security
Weddings, private and brand events, festivals and conventions, coordinated with the venue and organizer.
Executive protection
Level IV protection agents for executives, public figures and families.
