# Canton Retail and Vehicle Crime Security | Go Security > Canton police list shoplifting, vehicle crime and off-road bikes as priorities. Retail officers, car park patrols and CCTV towers in west Cardiff. Source: https://gosecurity.uk/security-canton.html --- [Home](https://gosecurity.uk/) / [Locations](https://gosecurity.uk/locations.html) / Canton, Cardiff # Security Services in Canton Shop theft, car crime and illegal off-road riding: those are the three things Canton's neighbourhood officers have said they want to bring down, and each has a matching answer for local traders. [Book a Free Audit](https://gosecurity.uk/security-audit.html)Get a Quote ✓ SIA-Licensed Officers✓ 24/7 Control Room✓ 100% PAYE Workforce✓ BS 7858 Vetted Trusted Protection in Canton ## Lining up with Canton's police priorities Canton's police team has been specific. Officers are going after retail theft, crimes against vehicles and the misuse of off-road motorbikes. The year's numbers support that choice: 475 shoplifting reports and 556 vehicle offences inside a one-mile ring. Shopkeepers at Capital Shopping Park or Corp Market, and anybody with a car park to look after, can reinforce the effort with uniformed staff, unpredictable patrols and cameras that capture faces and number plates clearly enough to use. - Police priorities: retail crime, vehicle crime, off-road bikes - 556 vehicle offences logged in a year - Eighty licensed people from our network close by - 194 licensed premises inside 5km Get a Quote [View Canton on OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Canton%2C%20Cardiff) Canton Business Profile ## Our Canton team and Cardiff's economy Canton contracts draw on 130 people on our register whose homes are a 10-mile journey or less away. Eighty hold SIA cards and are active for shifts. Ten bring cars, which keeps a patrol moving between Ely Industrial Estate, Fairwater Workshops and Tollgate Close Trade Park. Each person cleared BS 7858 screening before joining, is paid through PAYE, and registers arrival on site by satellite. Office-based professional firms make up the bulk of Cardiff's 12,130 registered businesses; builders and shopkeepers come after. Two smaller groups punch above their national weight: care and health, at 6.3%, and finance, at 3.1%. Surgeries and care homes benefit from a steady person at the front desk and someone checking in on staff who work alone. Banks and advisers suit a polished reception and an officer who attends alarms at night. 80 SIA-licensed officers within 10 miles 12,130 Registered businesses in Cardiff 49 Active construction sites mapped within 5 km 194 Pubs, bars & nightclubs within 5 km ### Retail parks and estates around Canton - **Industrial & business parks:** Bessemer Close Workshops, Ely Industrial Estate, Leckwith Industrial Estate, Fairwater Workshops, Penarth Road Industrial Units and Biffa Waste Management Resource Centre - **Retail parks & shopping centres:** Corp Market, Capital Shopping Park, Gripoly Mills Retail Park, Glynstell Park, Stadium Plaza and Tollgate Close Trade Park - **Hospitals:** Saint David's Hospital, Priory Hospital Cardiff, Nuffield Health Cardiff Bay Hospital and Llandough Hospital - **Rail stations:** Ninian Park, Waun-gron Park, Grangetown, Cardiff Central and Fairwater ### Venues & Martyn's Law Cardiff City Stadium, Chapter and Llanover Hall Arts Centre draw audiences. Wherever a crowd tops 200, Martyn's Law duties will attach once it takes effect in 2027, and we can provide crowd stewards and bag checkers. [What Martyn's Law means for venues](https://gosecurity.uk/blog-martyns-law.html). Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). Updated October 2026. Security Requirements in Canton ## Shops, stadiums and trade parks Ninian Park, Waun-gron Park and Fairwater stations are all handy, and Cardiff Central is a short ride. Shoppers spread across Capital Shopping Park, Glynstell Park and Gripoly Mills, while Llandough Hospital and Saint David's Hospital lie within reach. Forty-nine building projects are plotted inside 5km, and 194 pubs, bars and clubs trade in the same radius. Our Canton rota can swing from guarding a compound at dawn to running a door at midnight. [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cowbridge_Road_East_shops.jpg) by Haydz d, CC0 Services in Canton Retail officers, car park rounds and camera towers top the Canton list, with door and event staffing further down. [Security guarding](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#guards) · [Mobile patrols](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#mobile) · [Key holding](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#keyholding) · [Alarm response](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#alarm) · [Event security](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#event) · [K9 security](https://gosecurity.uk/security.html#canine) · [CCTV towers](https://gosecurity.uk/cctv.html#tower) · [CCTV monitoring](https://gosecurity.uk/cctv.html#monitoring) · [POD intruder alarms](https://gosecurity.uk/cctv.html#pod) Crime & Security Data ## Canton crime by category Across a complete year, Police.uk logged 4,087 offences within one mile of Canton. Assaults and sexual offending came top with 1,139. Vehicle crime ranked second on 556, shop theft third on 475, then public order on 427 and nuisance behaviour on 376. The newest quarter climbed 14% compared with twelve months before, and shoplifting went up 62%. Those figures mirror the police list almost exactly, which gives shops and car park operators a strong reason to act now. 4,087 Recorded crimes in 12 months 1,139 Violence & sexual offences 556 Vehicle crime 475 Shoplifting 427 Public order 376 Anti-social behaviour Source: [Police.uk](https://www.police.uk) open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate. Local Policing ## South Wales Police in Canton Canton officers have named shoplifting and retail crime, vehicle crime, and off-road motorbikes and illegal vehicle use as their priorities. Canton South Wales Police **Current neighbourhood priorities:** - Shoplifting & retail crime - Vehicle crime - Off-road motorbikes & illegal vehicle use [View this team on Police.uk →](https://www.south-wales.police.uk) Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Canton. Areas We Cover Near Canton ## West Cardiff and beyond The officers working Canton also turn out in Pontcanna, Llandaff and Riverside, each about a mile away, handy for anyone with premises dotted across west Cardiff. [Pontcanna](https://gosecurity.uk/security-pontcanna.html) [Riverside](https://gosecurity.uk/security-riverside.html) [Caerau](https://gosecurity.uk/security-caerau.html) [Grangetown](https://gosecurity.uk/security-grangetown.html) [Llandaff](https://gosecurity.uk/security-llandaff.html) [Cardiff](https://gosecurity.uk/security-cardiff.html) [Fairwater](https://gosecurity.uk/security-fairwater.html) [Gabalfa](https://gosecurity.uk/security-gabalfa.html) [Cathays](https://gosecurity.uk/security-cathays.html) [Butetown](https://gosecurity.uk/security-butetown.html) [Adamsdown](https://gosecurity.uk/security-adamsdown.html) [Roath](https://gosecurity.uk/security-roath.html) Postcodes We Cover in Canton ### Canton postcode coverage The 7 postcode districts nearest central Canton, covering parts of Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan and Caerphilly. CF11CF5CF10CF24CF14CF64CF23 Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? [Check coverage](https://gosecurity.uk/coverage.html). Canton Security FAQs ## Frequently asked questions ### How can our shop help with Canton's retail crime problem? Shop theft grew 62%, and police want it reduced. A uniformed retail officer puts many would-be thieves off, while store detectives collect evidence that holds up. Every incident note we write can go straight to the Canton neighbourhood team. ### Cars are being broken into in our car park. What helps? With 556 offences, vehicle crime is Canton's second biggest category. A camera tower relayed to our controllers, plus patrol visits at varied hours, makes thieves think twice and records anything that does happen for police and insurers. ### Off-road bikes keep using our land. Can you stop them? Police in Canton list illegal off-road riding as a priority. We time patrols for when riders are reported, help close off access points and add monitored cameras, producing reports that support enforcement. ### Is there enough local staff to cover us? Yes. Of the 130 people on our register living close to Canton, 80 are licensed and taking bookings. That depth covers regular rotas as well as extra requests anywhere in Cardiff. ### Can you protect a clinic or care home? Care and health providers form 6.3% of Cardiff firms. Our reception officers keep difficult conversations calm, and staff working alone can check in with controllers through the shift or at night. Free, no-obligation quote ## Get a security quote in Canton Tell us about your site and what you need. We'll price it and come back to you, normally within one working day. - SIA-licensed, BS 7858 vetted officers on PAYE - 24/7 control room for urgent cover - Prefer to talk? Call [0800 471 4792](tel:+448004714792), day or night ## Protect your Canton business Canton shops and car parks can have our £250 survey without paying a penny; for prices on retail officers or patrols, dial 0800 471 4792. [Book a Free Audit](https://gosecurity.uk/security-audit.html)Get a Quote --- Go Security Ltd, Unit 2K1, Hastingwood Business Park, Wood Lane, Birmingham B24 9QR. Tel 0800 471 4792 (24/7 control room). Email control@gosecurity.uk. Registered in England & Wales no. 11722692. ICO registration ZB604756.