Philip St. Moritz founded Security Services, Inc. in 1982. Security Services, Inc. was created as a value added service for Mr. St. Moritz’s successful janitorial company located in Western Pennsylvania. Upon incorporation, Security Services, Inc. experienced steady growth through established contacts from the janitorial company, and the general need for a service oriented security company in Western Pennsylvania.

In 1989, Mr. St. Moritz made the decision to expand Security Services, Inc. through acquisition of smaller security companies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia. To date, over 23 acquisitions have been completed with the most recent acquisition of Whitemarsh Security in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1995, due to the growth of Security Services, Inc. and licensing requirements in various states, St. Moritz was added to the Security Services, Inc. name. St. Moritz Security Services, Inc. then added the slogan “Protecting Your Interests”. A new corporate logo was created, and the uniforms were changed from black and gold to black and red.

A security company was needed to provide police officer escorts for jewelry and jewelry representatives traveling from location to location. St. Moritz was approached to develop this network and perform this service for jewelers across the country. St. Moritz created the Jewelry Escort Division and developed a network of over 2000 off duty and retired police officers to provide the service for the jewelry companies.

Due to the success of the Jewelry Escort Division, St. Moritz continued to look for niche businesses within the security industry. St. Moritz refined the ATM Division in 2001. The ATM Division specializes in on-call, armed security officers to guard ATM technicians as they repair ATM machines. St. Moritz developed a network of proprietary security officers and contracted, affiliate security companies to provide guard service for the ATM Division. For this division to operate properly, St. Moritz had to staff a twenty four hour Dispatch Center to handle the volume of call requests from ATM technicians. The St. Moritz Dispatch Center became an integral part of the ATM Division and a value added service for all St. Moritz clients.

With St. Moritz network of proprietary security officers, off duty/retired police officers, and contracted, affiliate security companies; St. Moritz created a National Services Division in 2002. The National Services Division specializes in providing coverage for national retailers and companies searching for streamlined guard service through one point of contract and billing.

By 2003, St. Moritz was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the Pittsburgh area by the Pittsburgh Business Times. On a national level, St. Moritz was ranked as the 34th largest security company in the United States. St. Moritz enjoys the distinction of being the largest, privately held, Pittsburgh based security company.

St. Moritz entered the Florida market by opening offices in Hollywood and Orlando. We established ourselves as major provider of guard coverage statewide.

We expanded our services into providing high end retail establishments with very high quality public relations minded officer’s for clients such as Cartier, DeBeers and Gucci. We are now providing service nationwide and especially in large markets such as New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.

St. Moritz has experienced tremendous growth over the past 25 years. The projection for the next four years has St. Moritz reaching the one hundred million mark by 2010. This growth will be achieved by entering more of the top markets in the United States, continued niche business, evidence our being awarded the contract to provide service for the US Consulate in Vancouver, BC, and strategic acquisition of smaller security company accounts.