The embodiment of the invention provides a security patrol monitoring method and device, and the method comprises the steps: collecting a monitoring video of a patrol point, and tracking a pedestrianin the monitoring video, so as to build a movement track of the pedestrian; and if it is determined that the pedestrian is a security guard, whether the security guard patrols is judged according to the movement track of the security guard. According to the embodiment of the invention, the monitoring video of the patrol point is collected, pedestrians in the monitoring video are identified throughan image identification technology. According to the time sequence of the identified video frames of the pedestrian, the movement track of the pedestrian is established, whether the pedestrian is a security guard or not is identified through an image identification technology, and whether the pedestrian patrols or not judged according to the action track of the security guard. With the help of the video image recognition technology, the security guard can be accurately recognized, and whether the security guard normally inspects according to the specification can be judged.