Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Matford Business Park and Princesshay shape much of Exeter's working day. Our officers protect units, stores and building plots across them, alongside the hospitals and venues in between.
Trusted Protection in Exeter
Map Exeter's commerce and a list of names appears quickly. Industry clusters at Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Matford Business Park, City Industrial Estate, the Vulcan Estate and Exeter Trade Park. Retail runs from Princesshay and the Guildhall Shopping Centre to Haven Banks and Alphington Road retail parks and the St Thomas Shopping Centre. Each of these places needs something slightly different, and our local officers already know the layouts, access roads and quiet corners of most of them.
Exeter Business Profile
Exeter's local roster is 35 strong, every name within a ten-mile drive. Twenty-five are licensed and active for shifts, and ten have cars, so estate loops and alarm visits around the city stay workable. Anyone we place has been checked against BS 7858 and draws a PAYE salary, and our own control room sees each check-in as it happens.
Exeter's own council register lists 4,470 firms: 735 in professional services, 640 builders and 350 in leisure and entertainment. Utilities make up 1.3%, double Britain's 0.6%, and health and care 6.0% compared with 4.4%. Hospital sites like Wonford and Heavitree, both part of the Royal Devon & Exeter, and the Nuffield generally need staffed receptions and support for lone workers.
Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, the Barnfield Theatre and Exeter Cavern draw regular audiences, and Timepiece trades late. Any room licensed for 200 or above will need to meet Martyn's Law once it takes effect, and our stewards help such places get ready. 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 Exeter
Within 5km there are five stations, from Exeter St Davids and Exeter Central to St James' Park, Exeter St Thomas and Polsloe Bridge. Around them cluster 89 licensed bars and clubs and a long roll of hospitals, shops and trade counters.
No single approach fits all of that. A trade counter on Marsh Barton needs someone holding keys plus a monitored alarm, a Princesshay retailer wants a uniformed guard by the tills, and a building plot needs towers and night rounds.
Services in Exeter
Click any service listed next for detail; a typical Exeter client mixes two or three across different premises.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
For the year ending August 2026, Police.uk logged 7,884 crimes within a mile of Exeter's central streets.
Violence and sexual offending came first at 2,935, roughly 37%. Nuisance behaviour reached 1,308, shop theft 1,061, damage and arson 556 and public order 463. The newest quarter exactly matched its counterpart twelve months earlier, while shop theft eased 7%. Even so, more than a thousand thefts is steady pressure on Princesshay and the Guildhall, and the nuisance count matters for venues and late-opening stores.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Devon & Cornwall Police's city-centre team in Exeter has three aims: engaging the community, tackling anti-social behaviour in both homes and the centre, and preventing violence towards women and girls.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Exeter.
Areas We Cover Near Exeter
Topsham, about 4 miles out, Crediton at 7 and Exmouth at 9 are covered too, so companies with branches outside the city can use one provider.
Postcodes We Cover in Exeter
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Exeter, covering parts of East Devon, Exeter, Teignbridge, Mid Devon and West Devon.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Exeter Security FAQs
Yes. Marsh Barton, Matford Business Park and City Industrial Estate all sit in the 5km radius. Patrols test shutters and doors, check the yard on a varying schedule, and leave a GPS-stamped note after every call.
We can. Police.uk shows 1,061 shop thefts near the city centre last year. A uniformed presence or a store detective puts thieves off, supports staff and gathers evidence for police and insurers.
Thirty-five registered security workers live within ten miles; 25 hold current licences and are active for shifts, and ten drive. That lets us hold static posts in the centre while patrols run on the estates.
They do. Health and care is 6.0% of Exeter's register, where Britain's figure is 4.4%. We staff front desks, back up lone workers and cover evenings and weekends, with every shift visible to our control room.
Forty-eight building plots appear within 5km. Each gets its own mix of gate officers, dog teams, solar towers or overnight patrols, with a digital record emailed after each visit.
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Tell us about your site and what you need. We'll price it and come back to you, normally within one working day.
Phone 0800 471 4792 and an assessor will audit your premises free of charge, a £250 visit, or we can price estate rounds, store guards or building-plot cover.
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