Security guards are stationed in many places here.  They inspect your purse and person at every entrance to a mall.  They're stationed in a "guard shack" at the entry of every housing development. 
Since we've been here for a year we've made friends with many of them. 
This is Pathricia Pondug, a security guard for The Redwoods.

The guard at MacDonalds, where we buy our Monday breakfast of Egg-de-sol.

The guards at the entry of Redwoods