Gig nights at Manchester Academy, plays at Contact and race meetings at the National Speedway Stadium all fall within 5km of Longsight. Our network supplies stewards, door supervisors and crowd planning for each.
Trusted Protection in Longsight
Few parts of Manchester have so many audiences close by. Longsight's 5km radius covers concert spaces such as Manchester Academy and Academy 3, the Contact theatre, the GMB Banqueting Hall and a speedway stadium, plus 462 licensed pubs, bars and clubs. Event organisers need trained stewards, searches at the door and someone watching the queue. Licensees want door supervisors who know the area. We provide both, along with guarding for shops and wholesale yards.
Longsight Business Profile
Longsight benefits from one of our larger local pools: 165 people on our register have addresses inside 10 miles, 120 of them with an SIA licence in force and open to bookings, and 55 travelling by car. That depth matters when a big show needs a full stewarding team. Each officer is PAYE, screened under BS 7858 and checks in by GPS with our 24/7 control room.
Manchester counts 24,550 registered businesses. Professional services lead with 4,455, retail is second on 2,915 and hospitality third on 2,035. Retail runs at 11.9% of firms, well above the 7.8% British level, which points to demand for uniformed retail officers and store detectives. Wholesale, at 5.7% against 3.6%, brings warehouse guarding and gatehouse control on estates such as Hoyle Street and Downing Street.
Manchester Academy, Contact and the National Speedway Stadium each draw crowds within 5km. Venues holding 200 or more people will have Martyn's Law duties when they begin in 2027, and our event security officers can support search, stewarding and evacuation planning. 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 Longsight
Five rail stations sit within 5km of Longsight, among them Levenshulme, Ardwick and Belle Vue. Industrial land runs through the Thames, Bond Mark and Monton Street estates, while shoppers head to Fallowfield Retail Park, Urban Exchange and Afflecks. With 104 construction sites mapped nearby, contractors are a big presence too. Security plans here have to cope with crowds, retail theft and empty building plots, sometimes on the same street.
Services in Longsight
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Crime & Security Data
Police.uk shows no Longsight figures because Greater Manchester Police is not currently supplying complete data to it.
Without that data we won't guess at local totals. What we can point to is the neighbourhood team's own focus, which covers burglary, drugs and anti-social behaviour, and robbery with theft from the person. Those concerns map onto venue queues, shop floors and empty premises after hours. A free on-site audit with our 25-point checklist is the best way to judge the risks at a specific address.
Local Policing
The Longsight neighbourhood team of Greater Manchester Police is prioritising burglary, drugs and anti-social behaviour, and robberies and theft from persons.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Longsight.
Areas We Cover Near Longsight
Rusholme, Levenshulme and Gorton are each about 1 mile from Longsight, and we place officers and patrols across all three.
Postcodes We Cover in Longsight
The 9 postcode districts nearest central Longsight, covering parts of Manchester, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Longsight Security FAQs
Yes. Our SIA-licensed stewards and event officers work at concert spaces and theatres within 5km of Longsight. For audiences of 200 or more, we help organisers with Martyn's Law preparation, bag searches and crowd plans.
We do. There are 462 pubs, bars and nightclubs inside 5km, so licensed premises are a large part of local trade. Door supervisors from our network are BS 7858 screened and hold SIA licences.
Greater Manchester Police is not publishing complete data to Police.uk, so we leave the figures out rather than show a partial picture. The local team's priorities of burglary, drugs and robbery still give a useful guide.
Retail is 11.9% of Manchester businesses, compared with 7.8% nationally. We supply uniformed retail officers and store detectives for shops at places such as Fallowfield Retail Park and Urban Exchange.
There are 165 people on our register inside 10 miles, and 120 carry a current SIA licence and accept shift bookings. Fifty-five have a car, which helps with mobile patrols and alarm response.
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