From Bonnington and Hawkhill industrial estates to Ocean Terminal and Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, Edinburgh's commercial addresses are spread wide. We match guards, patrols and monitored CCTV to each of them.
Trusted Protection in Edinburgh
Edinburgh's commercial sites fall into two groups. On one side are working estates such as Hawkhill Industrial Estate, Stewartfield Industrial Estate, Bonnington Industrial Estate and the Albion Business Centre, where units empty at night. On the other are shopping destinations like Waverley Market, Fountain Park, Meadowbank Shopping Park and Ocean Terminal, busy all day with public footfall. The first group needs alarm response and patrols; the second needs visible officers and careful handling of customers and staff.
Edinburgh Business Profile
The City of Edinburgh has 18,640 registered businesses. Professional services is the biggest group at 3,580, ahead of hospitality at 1,960 and construction at 1,695. Finance stands at 3.7% of firms, compared with 2.1% across Great Britain, which suggests corporate reception security and out-of-hours alarm response. Utilities are also above average at 1.0% against 0.6%, and those critical sites usually call for guarding backed by remote CCTV monitoring.
Within 10 miles of Edinburgh our network has 50 registered security workers, 25 of whom hold a current SIA licence and are active for shifts, including 5 with their own vehicle for mobile patrol routes. All are vetted to BS 7858 and paid through PAYE. Our 24/7 in-house control room manages keys and alarms, and every visit is recorded by GPS book-on with a digital report.
Venues near the centre include The Stand Comedy Club, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and the Scotsman Picturehouse. Venues for 200 or more people will need to meet Martyn's Law once it takes effect, and our event security officers can help operators prepare. 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 Edinburgh
The mapped picture of Edinburgh is crowded: 460 pubs, bars and nightclubs within 5km, stations at Edinburgh Waverley, Haymarket and Slateford, and health sites including the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion and Leith Community Treatment Centre. Cinemas such as Everyman and Vue add evening crowds to the mix.
For businesses this means footfall that runs late and transport links that bring people through all day. Shops and venues need staff who manage crowds calmly, while the 68 mapped building sites need overnight protection.
Services in Edinburgh
Pick the services that suit your Edinburgh shopping centre unit, industrial estate premises, venue or construction site.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk does not hold figures for Edinburgh, because recorded crime in Scotland is published by Police Scotland.
That means we cannot show the one-mile breakdown used on our English and Welsh pages. Police Scotland releases its own statistics, which are the right source for anyone researching the city. For a view of your own premises, our free on-site security audit uses a 25-point checklist to assess access points, lighting, alarms and staff routines, giving you a practical risk picture without relying on area-wide figures.
Local Policing
Edinburgh is policed by Police Scotland. Our officers keep clear incident records that can be shared with the police when an event on your site needs reporting.
Policing in Edinburgh is provided by Police Scotland.
Areas We Cover Near Edinburgh
We also look after businesses in Leith at 1 mile, Portobello at 3 miles and Musselburgh at 5 miles from Edinburgh.
Postcodes We Cover in Edinburgh
The 9 postcode districts nearest central Edinburgh, covering parts of City of Edinburgh and Midlothian.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Edinburgh Security FAQs
Yes. Both are among six shopping centres and retail parks within 5km of Edinburgh, along with Cameron Toll and Fountain Park. Uniformed retail officers deter theft and support staff, and store detectives can work discreetly where that suits the shop better.
We do. Mobile patrols visit units on Bonnington, Hawkhill and Stewartfield industrial estates at irregular times, checking doors, shutters and yards. Each stop is logged by GPS and written into a digital report you can read the next morning.
Scottish recorded crime is published by Police Scotland, not Police.uk, so the one-mile figures we use elsewhere are not available for Edinburgh. Our free security audit, worth £250, gives a site-specific assessment instead.
Finance makes up 3.7% of Edinburgh businesses, above the 2.1% national share. Offices like these typically use corporate reception security during the day and key holding with alarm response overnight, all coordinated by our 24/7 control room.
There are 68 construction sites mapped around Edinburgh and construction accounts for 1,695 local businesses. CCTV towers with remote monitoring cover open sites, and static guards or patrols can secure plant and materials overnight.
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