Anti-social behaviour, shoplifting and road safety are the three issues Lancashire Constabulary's Medlar-with-Wesham team has chosen to focus on. We back local shops, units and empty properties with guarding, patrols and inspections.
Trusted Protection in Medlar-with-Wesham
The neighbourhood team in Medlar-with-Wesham names its concerns plainly: anti-social behaviour, shoplifting and road safety. Two of those land directly on businesses. Shoplifting produced 10 recorded offences inside a mile last year and anti-social behaviour 12. Neither figure is large, but for a small retailer one repeat offender makes a difference. We offer uniformed guards for trading hours, evening patrols past shopfronts and monitored alarms with a keyholder on call.
Medlar-with-Wesham Business Profile
Every one of the 15 officers in our network who live within 10 miles of Medlar-with-Wesham currently holds an SIA licence and is open for bookings, and 5 of them drive. So static posts and patrol rounds can both be staffed from nearby. All are screened to BS 7858 and paid by PAYE, and the GPS book-on system records when each officer arrives and leaves.
Fylde counts 3,560 registered businesses, led by professional services on 605, construction on 430 and retail on 295. Property firms are more common than usual, at 5.8% against 4.7% nationally, and empty buildings between lets need void protection, key holding and regular inspections. Hospitality, at 7.6% compared with 6.5%, adds pubs and function rooms that may want door supervisors on busier evenings.
Mill Farm stadium, Business & Banqueting and a regular car boot sale are the venues listed within 5km. Events drawing 200 or more people are covered by Martyn's Law, and we provide stewards, searches and door staff. 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 Medlar-with-Wesham
Within 5km lie Progress Business Area, Brook Mill Industrial Estate, Wareing Buildings, a waste water works and the Cuadrilla fracking site, plus the Kirkham and Wesham and Salwick stations. Wesham Rehabilitation Centre is nearby, along with 18 pubs and bars. Industrial and utility sites like these generally need perimeter patrols, alarm response and, where plant is exposed, CCTV towers.
Services in Medlar-with-Wesham
Each of these can be organised for a Medlar-with-Wesham shop, business unit, empty property or event.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Across September 2025 to August 2026, Police.uk logged 73 offences inside the mile around Medlar-with-Wesham.
Violence and sexual offences made up 27 of them. Anti-social behaviour came next with 12, shoplifting with 10, criminal damage and arson with 7 and drugs offences with 4. These are low totals, so the practical risk for most firms is opportunistic theft and damage rather than sustained crime, which alarms and patrol checks handle well.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Medlar-with-Wesham has its own Lancashire Constabulary neighbourhood team, whose priorities are anti-social behaviour, shoplifting and road safety.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Medlar-with-Wesham.
Areas We Cover Near Medlar-with-Wesham
Kirkham is just 2 miles from Medlar-with-Wesham, Lytham St Annes 6 miles and Preston 8 miles. More covered towns are listed below.
Postcodes We Cover in Medlar-with-Wesham
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Medlar-with-Wesham, covering parts of Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre and Blackpool.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Medlar-with-Wesham Security FAQs
Yes. The Medlar-with-Wesham police team lists shoplifting as a priority, and 10 offences were recorded close by last year. A uniformed SIA-licensed guard deters theft and records each incident for police follow-up.
Fifteen officers in our network live within 10 miles, and all 15 hold a current SIA licence and accept bookings. Five have cars for mobile patrols, and every officer is BS 7858 vetted.
Property businesses make up 5.8% of Fylde firms, above the 4.7% national share. We provide void property protection, key holding and scheduled vacant building inspections, each logged by GPS with a written report.
Progress Business Area, Brook Mill Industrial Estate and the Cuadrilla fracking site are all within 5km. For sites of this kind we offer patrols, alarm response and CCTV towers monitored at an NSI Gold accredited centre.
Besides Medlar-with-Wesham we cover Kirkham at 2 miles, Lytham St Annes at 6 miles, and Blackpool, Penwortham and Preston at 7 to 8 miles, so several properties can share one patrol schedule.
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Let us carry out a free audit of your Medlar-with-Wesham premises, ordinarily £250, or call 0800 471 4792 for prices.
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