Clun is a small Shropshire town near the Welsh border, and most of the security work here is rural: farm patrols, solar CCTV towers for remote yards and key holding for premises left empty.
Trusted Protection in Clun
In a place the size of Clun, the risks are spread out rather than concentrated. Police.uk recorded only 21 crimes within a mile over the latest year, yet burglary and vehicle crime both featured, and the local policing team lists rural crime as a priority. For farms, workshops and The Green Industrial Estate, that points to patrols that reach outlying buildings, cameras that work without mains power and a key holder ready when an alarm sounds.
Clun Business Profile
Shropshire has 15,925 registered businesses, and the largest group by some distance is agriculture, with 3,095 firms. That is 19.4% of the county total, compared with 4.5% across Great Britain. Construction comes next at 2,045 and professional services at 1,955. A security plan in this part of the county therefore has to work across fields and lanes as much as across streets.
Motor trade businesses also sit above the national share, at 3.7% against 3.0%, and vehicles stored outdoors are attractive targets wherever they are. Our answer combines forecourt or yard CCTV towers with overnight mobile patrols. Officers are SIA-licensed, BS 7858 vetted and employed on PAYE, and every visit is confirmed by GPS book-on with a digital report sent to the client.
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 Clun
The facts paint Clun as a small, rural community. There are three pubs, bars and nightclubs within 5km and one industrial estate, The Green, with no retail parks, rail stations or large venues mapped nearby. Security needs here are less about crowds and more about distance: making sure that a building checked at night really was checked, and that someone can attend if a sensor is triggered.
Services in Clun
These services suit Clun's farms, rural workshops and small businesses, booked individually or as a package:
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Only 21 crimes were recorded within a mile of Clun on Police.uk between September 2025 and August 2026.
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 8 of those, burglary for 4 and vehicle crime for 3, with public order and criminal damage and arson at 2 each. The totals are small, but the categories matter to rural businesses: burglary and vehicle crime are exactly the offences that target outbuildings, machinery and parked vans. Monitored cameras and periodic patrols are a proportionate response rather than a full-time guard.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
West Mercia Police's rural team covering Clun has chosen rural crime, road safety and anti-social behaviour as its priorities, based on resident feedback and crime data.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Clun.
Areas We Cover Near Clun
From Clun our coverage extends to Bishop's Castle (5 miles), Craven Arms (8 miles) and Church Stretton (12 miles).
Postcodes We Cover in Clun
The 5 postcode districts nearest central Clun, covering parts of Powys, Shropshire and Herefordshire, County of.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Clun Security FAQs
It depends on what you have to lose. Crime is low, with 21 offences recorded within a mile in a year, but 4 were burglaries and 3 involved vehicles. For a farm or workshop with valuable kit, a CCTV tower or occasional patrol is often cheaper than one theft.
Yes. Solar CCTV towers are designed for places with no mains supply, which suits many of Shropshire's 3,095 agricultural businesses. Footage can be monitored remotely by an NSI Gold accredited monitoring centre, which can then contact you, a key holder or the police.
West Mercia Police's Bishops Castle and Craven Arms Rural team lists rural crime as one of three priorities, alongside road safety and anti-social behaviour. Private patrols and cameras complement that work by covering individual properties overnight.
We can. Key holding, alarm response and mobile patrols are well suited to small industrial units that are empty outside working hours. Each patrol visit is logged by GPS, so you can see when your unit was checked.
Motor trade firms are 3.7% of Shropshire businesses, a little above the 3.0% national level. For any business with vehicles parked outdoors, a CCTV tower covering the yard plus overnight patrols is the usual starting point, and our free audit can confirm the right mix.
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