Devon & Cornwall Police's Torrington Rural team has named severe and persistent anti-social behaviour, and drugs and organised crime, as its priorities for Great Torrington. Our patrols, cameras and guards help local businesses respond to both.
Trusted Protection in Great Torrington
Great Torrington is a Devon town whose neighbourhood police team has set out three priorities: community engagement, persistent anti-social behaviour and drugs and organised crime. For a shop, pub or industrial unit, that translates into practical steps. Monitored CCTV gives evidence the police can use, patrol visits deter loitering around closed premises, and a written incident log builds the record needed to deal with repeat problems.
Great Torrington Business Profile
Torridge has 3,700 registered businesses, and 1,235 of them are in agriculture. That is 33.4% of all firms, more than seven times the 4.5% British share. Construction follows with 515 and professional services with 300. Farm machinery, fuel and livestock buildings spread across open countryside are best covered by rural mobile patrols and solar CCTV towers with remote monitoring.
The motor trade, at 3.6% against 3.0% nationally, adds garages that benefit from forecourt cameras and overnight patrols. All officers we place are SIA-licensed, vetted to BS 7858 and paid through PAYE. Each patrol visit is recorded by GPS book-on, and our 24/7 control room receives alarm activations and coordinates the response.
The Plough Arts Centre is the named venue within 5km. If an event there or elsewhere expects 200 or more people, it will come within Martyn's Law when the Act begins, and our event security staff can help organisers 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 Great Torrington
Within 5km of the town are Hatchmoor Industrial Estate, Dartington Crystal, Week Farm Solar Park, Deep Moor Gas to Energy and the Huntshaw Cross Transmitting Station. Energy and transmission sites tend to be unmanned and remote, so remote CCTV monitoring and alarm response suit them. Torrington Community Hospital and around eight pubs and bars complete a modest town centre.
Services in Great Torrington
See the services below for Great Torrington farms, factories, energy sites, shops and pubs.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk logged 332 offences in the mile around Great Torrington during September 2025 to August 2026.
More than half, 173, were violence and sexual offences. Shoplifting followed with 34, anti-social behaviour with 28, criminal damage and arson with 27 and public order with 23. The most recent quarter was 5% higher than a year earlier. Shoplifting and damage are the categories that affect businesses most directly, and both respond well to visible deterrence and good camera coverage.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Great Torrington is policed by Devon & Cornwall Police's Torrington Rural team, which lists engagement, persistent anti-social behaviour and drugs and organised crime as priorities.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Great Torrington.
Areas We Cover Near Great Torrington
Bideford is 5 miles from Great Torrington, Northam 7 miles and Barnstaple 9 miles, and all three fall within our cover.
Postcodes We Cover in Great Torrington
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Great Torrington, covering parts of Torridge, North Devon and West Devon.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Great Torrington Security FAQs
The Torrington Rural police team lists severe and persistent anti-social behaviour as a priority. Monitored CCTV, patrol visits and detailed digital incident reports give your business evidence to share with police and deter repeat problems.
Yes. Agriculture makes up 33.4% of Torridge businesses, compared with 4.5% across Great Britain. Solar CCTV towers and rural mobile patrols suit farms where buildings are spread out and mains power is limited.
Sites such as Week Farm Solar Park, Deep Moor Gas to Energy and Hatchmoor Industrial Estate are within 5km. We provide remote CCTV monitoring, alarm response and static guarding.
Police.uk recorded 332 offences within a mile over 12 months, including 34 shoplifting offences and 27 cases of criminal damage and arson. The latest three months were 5% higher than a year before.
We cover Bideford at 5 miles, Northam at 7 miles, Barnstaple at 9 miles and Hatherleigh at 10 miles, as well as Chulmleigh at 13 miles.
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