Handheld Security Metal Detector

A hand-held metal detector wand for entrance screening. The supplier lists it as heavy duty, which is the wording on the carton rather than a measured figure, and it comes as one plain model with no size or colour options. What a buyer is choosing here is the format: something a guard carries on the belt and sweeps over a person or a bag, as against a fixed frame standing in the doorway.

Guarding companies use them at mall and office block entrances, bank halls, hotel gates, stadiums, schools and church compounds, usually alongside a bag search and a visitors' book. Security firms buy them in quantity when they take on a new contract and need every post equipped on the same day; schools, churches and event organisers usually take one or two.

Sold as a single item with no variants, packed 25 pieces to a carton for firms kitting out several posts at once. Ask about the power source and spares before you commit to a batch — a wand that has gone flat is a wand your guards will keep waving without switching on.