Scheer Security Alarm Systems

Specialties

Since 1990 we have installed all sorts of low voltage systems, including burglar alarms, fire alarms, audio systems, CCTV systems, home automation systems, lighting systems, network cabling, and telephone cabling. We have recently expanded our product line to include home safes from Amsec USA.

We provide central station monitoring for all our services. Technicians are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

All of our technicians participate in ongoing training by manufacturers and vendors to stay abreast of new products and technologies. We install up to date technology and provide the latest items available. We know how to use everything we install, and we make sure you know how to use it, too.

In the burglar alarm area we provide land line communication, network based communications, and cellular communication, to the central station.

Scheer Security is a fully licensed and bonded low voltage company, holding both an electrical contractor’s C10 license and an ACO alarm company license. We also hold UL certification for fire alarm systems.

History

Established in 1979.

Doug Scheer started Scheer Security in Whittier, CA in 1979, where he took care of some of the old-​style direct line burglar alarm receivers in the police departments. He also started one of the first contract central station companies, which he sold in 1989 when he returned to the Bay Area.

After 15 years in Concord, Scheer Security moved into the former YMCA building on Main Street in Oakley on the California Delta in East Contra Costa County.

Since 1990 we have installed all sorts of low voltage systems, including burglar alarms, fire alarms, audio systems, CCTV systems, home automation systems, lighting systems, network cabling, and telephone cabling. We have recently expanded our product line to include home safes from Amsec USA.

Meet the Business Owner

Doug S.

Business Owner

Doug Scheer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father’s job took the family all over the country and even overseas; Doug graduated from high school in Fremont, California. He moved to the Los Angeles area at 18 and started Scheer Security a year later.

Scheer was one of the first automated central stations to monitor alarms in Los Angeles. While central station monitoring is still part of Scheer Security, Doug has seen the industry change from the old dry cell battery alarms with key locks for arming and disarming, to fully automated systems controlled via iPad.

Doug returned to the Bay Area in 1989 and moved to Oakley in 2004 with his wife and sons. They bought the property at 3460 Main Street for their business. The lot behind it is home to Boy Scout Troop 152’s annual Christmas tree sale.

Doug Scheer is a past president of the Oakley Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves on the Ironhouse Sanitary District Board.