Five people on our officer list call the Acle area home, none more than ten miles out, which gives Broadland firms a familiar local face. Behind them stand the wider Norfolk network and a control room watching every shift.
Trusted Protection in Acle
Acle doesn't need a large standing guard force, but it does need officers who know the roads and can reach Damgate Lane Industrial Estate or a farm gate without a long drive. Our five local security workers handle routine patrols, alarm calls and key holding. When a job grows, such as cover for a function at Saint Lawrence's Centre or a guard on a building plot, we add vetted colleagues from around the county and log every arrival by GPS.
Acle Business Profile
With five registered security workers close by, Acle contracts are built around predictable rotas: regular patrol windows, set keyholding duties and planned static shifts. If one is unavailable, a replacement from elsewhere in Norfolk steps in. All have passed BS 7858 vetting and draw a PAYE wage, so there are no agency subcontractors, and the control room we run tracks each booking from start to finish.
Broadland lists 5,070 registered businesses, and builders dominate with 1,040. At 20.5% of firms that is well clear of Britain's 14.1%. Plant, diesel and stock left out overnight are the obvious targets, so towers and evening rounds tend to be the first request. Professional services follow on 660 and business services on 355, while utilities, at 1.1% against 0.6%, add a handful of critical sites.
Saint Lawrence's Centre for Training and the Arts is the town's main venue. Should an event there plan for 200 or more, Martyn's Law will apply, and our stewards can bring an entry plan with them. What Martyn's Law means for venues.
Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Updated October 2026.
Security Requirements in Acle
Acle's named commercial places are few: Damgate Lane Industrial Estate, Moulton Nurseries Plant Centre, two stations at Acle and Lingwood, five pubs or bars and a single mapped construction site. It is a place where a handful of premises matter a great deal to the people who run them.
For those owners, the main worry is an unattended building at night. Alarm response and keyholding remove the need to drive out after an activation, while patrols add a visible check on the estate.
Services in Acle
Have a look through the services underneath; most Acle clients start with patrols or keyholding and build from there.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk logged 122 crimes across the one-mile radius around Acle between September 2025 and August 2026.
Forty-nine fell under violence and sexual offending. The remainder spread thinly: 15 for damage or arson, 14 for nuisance behaviour, 13 for other theft and 11 for shop theft. Set the newest quarter beside its twin a year back and the drop is 46%. With totals this small, one break-in or act of vandalism can matter more to an owner than any trend, so prevention rests on locks, lighting and alarms.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Acle's Norfolk Constabulary team sets two priorities: nuisance behaviour, especially in parks and open spaces, and road safety across Broadland.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Acle.
Areas We Cover Near Acle
Great Yarmouth, Norwich and Loddon fall within our Norfolk coverage, letting a business spread across two or three of them keep one contract.
Postcodes We Cover in Acle
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Acle, covering parts of Broadland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, East Suffolk, South Norfolk and Norwich.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Acle Security FAQs
Yes, five on our list live within ten miles. They handle most routine work, and colleagues from around Norfolk join them for bigger jobs. Every one holds an SIA badge, has been vetted to BS 7858 and is on our payroll.
Builders make up 20.5% of Broadland's register, so plot protection is everyday work for us. We mix camera towers, after-dark rounds and a gate officer where needed, and a GPS-logged report follows each visit.
Damgate Lane Industrial Estate can join a patrol route, with shutters and doors tested and yards walked at a different hour each night. Keyholding and alarm attendance can be bundled into one agreement.
No. Police.uk shows 122 crimes in a one-mile radius across twelve months, and the newest quarter was 46% down on its equivalent. The real risk for owners is the occasional break-in or damage.
Yes. Our badge-holding stewards and door teams work performances, training days and community events. If numbers might reach 200, we will help you get ready for Martyn's Law.
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