Garston is a south Liverpool district with a long dockland and industrial heritage, and today its mix of retail, hospitality and business parks shapes what local firms need. We provide retail officers, door supervisors, patrols and CCTV.
Trusted Protection in Garston
Liverpool's 14,975 registered businesses lean towards shops and hospitality. Retail and hospitality each account for 10.4% of firms, well above national levels of 7.8% and 6.5%. In Garston that shows up at New Mersey Shopping Park and Boulevard Retail Park, and in the 80 pubs and bars within 5km. Alongside them, industrial sites such as Garston Industrial Estate and Estuary Commerce Park carry the area's working heritage forward and need overnight protection.
Garston Business Profile
Garston sits inside the home radius of 45 people on our register, counting everyone within 10 miles. Two thirds, 30 people, are SIA-licensed for rostering, and 15 have a car for patrols and alarm response. All are BS 7858 vetted and on PAYE, and every visit is time-stamped through GPS book-on with a digital report, under the eye of our 24/7 control room.
Professional services are the largest sector in Liverpool with 2,360 firms, followed by construction with 1,830 and retail with 1,555. Retailers benefit from uniformed officers and store detectives to cut shoplifting and protect staff. Pubs and restaurants need door supervisors and evening cover. Offices and construction firms, including those working on the 5 sites mapped within 5km, look to key holding, CCTV towers and patrols.
Cineworld, Woolton Cinema and the Toxteth Annexe Conference Centre are the named venues within 5km. Where capacity reaches 200, Martyn's Law will bring duties from 2027, which our event officers can help operators plan for. 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 Garston
Garston's dockland and industrial past is reflected in the estates around it: Garston Industrial Estate, Liverpool International Business Park, Triumph Business Park, Estuary Commerce Park, Compass Industrial Park and Venture Point. Five rail stations, including Liverpool South Parkway and Hunts Cross, lie within 5km, alongside Spire Liverpool Hospital and the South Liverpool NHS Treatment Centre. Industrial units, retail parks and stations each need a different kind of cover.
Services in Garston
Each service listed next can cover a Garston shop, pub, business park, office or building site.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Between September 2025 and August 2026, Police.uk recorded 1,949 crimes within one mile of Garston.
Violence and sexual offences made up 727, roughly 37%. Anti-social behaviour followed at 304, shoplifting at 204, criminal damage and arson at 195 and public order at 176. The latest quarter was 11% below a year before, but shoplifting rose 20%. That divergence matters for retailers, who face a growing theft problem even as the wider figures ease.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Merseyside Police's Garston team is focused on anti-social behaviour at Garston Under the Bridge and on parking around St Marys Road.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Garston.
Areas We Cover Near Garston
Speke, Aigburth and Woolton are each 2 miles from Garston. We also cover the other south Liverpool districts listed below.
Postcodes We Cover in Garston
The 10 postcode districts nearest central Garston, covering parts of Liverpool, Knowsley and Halton.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Garston Security FAQs
Yes. New Mersey Shopping Park and Boulevard Retail Park are within 5km, and shoplifting near Garston rose 20% on the year before. Store detectives and uniformed retail staff from our network make theft harder and staff safer.
The pool is 45 strong within a 10-mile radius. Of those, 30 carry a current SIA licence for bookings and 15 have cars for patrol and alarm duties.
Hospitality makes up 10.4% of Liverpool businesses against 6.5% nationally, and 80 licensed premises trade within 5km of Garston. Our door supervisors are licensed, vetted and trained for evening work.
We patrol estates including Estuary Commerce Park, Triumph Business Park and Garston Industrial Estate, testing doors and fence lines after closing, and each check carries a GPS time stamp.
The Garston team at Merseyside Police is tackling anti-social behaviour Under the Bridge and parking problems around St Marys Road. Anti-social behaviour accounted for 304 offences within a mile.
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