About Us

Antares Private Security was founded with the desire to provide a courteous, professional and superior service to our clients. Our company’s uncompromised commitment to customer service is an extension of our founders’ pursuit for excellence and self-improvement, forged throughout the years by their personal, professional, diligent and ethical work/service record.

Jose Lopez, (J. R.) our company’s President and CEO, immigrated to the U.S. as a young adult and has worked incessantly in self-development through extensive training and education. Jose has been involved in law enforcement for over 25 years and the

security industry for more than 20 years now. He was a police supervisor (sergeant) for 10 years and a Lieutenant and Commanding Officer of an entire police division for his last three years in law enforcement. He has taken several courses in supervision, law

enforcement management, and is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute (SLI) and command staff development. He has worked many assignments as an off-duty security officer including personal and property protection,

surveillance, and assisting with loss prevention (asset protection) at retail chain stores. Jose provided instruction of the School Security Campus Aide 24-hour state mandated course (SB1626) for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) and has instructed the BSIS security guard

curriculum through the LAUSD Adult School Branch program for several years. He has also taught numerous other law enforcement related classes like Driver Education, juvenile traffic school, and Character Counts!, Additionally, he was a First Aid and CPR/AED instructor with the LASPD. Jose possesses a bachelor’s degree in Professional Studies and also earned a Masters degree in Emergency Services Administration from Cal State University Long Beach.

He is a Homeland Security Agency instructor for the Incident Command System (ICS). and is also a POST Certified Academy Instructor, a BSIS instructor, an NRA, DOJ, and BSIS firearms instructor, and a BSIS baton instructor. He additionally holds a clear state teaching credential in law enforcement occupations, elementary and secondary social sciences, and ESL.