A forced shutter, a guard who cannot make a shift, an alarm going off on a Moston trading estate: we arrange cover from a pool of 180 local security workers, with our 24/7 control room handling the call.
Trusted Protection in Moston
Not every security need in Moston is planned months ahead. Units on Navigation Trading Estate or Victoria Trading Estate can be left exposed after a break-in, shops lose a booked officer to sickness, and 71 mapped construction sites nearby mean plenty of plant left out overnight. Because 125 of the 180 people on our register within a 10-mile radius are SIA-active, we can look to fill a gap from people already living across Manchester, coordinated round the clock by our control room.
Moston Business Profile
Across Manchester, 24,550 businesses are registered. Professional services top the list with 4,455, retail comes second with 2,915 and hospitality third on 2,035. Retail runs at 11.9% of firms compared with 7.8% nationally, so shop-floor guards and plain-clothes detectives suit many local stores, particularly one that needs someone on the door after an incident. Wholesale, at 5.7% versus 3.6%, adds warehouse guarding, gatehouse control and patrols.
Officers we place around Moston have passed BS 7858 screening, sit on PAYE and check in by GPS, so even a last-minute placement is logged and reported in the same way as a long-term contract. The size of the local pool, with 125 licensed people active for shifts, is what makes short-notice work practical across sites from Wilsons Park to Clayton Industrial Estate.
Broadhurst Park, the Manchester Velodrome and the National Indoor BMX Arena all lie within 5km, alongside The Sheridan events venue. Bigger crowds of 200-plus will bring Martyn's Law duties once the Act commences, and our stewards can handle entry checks for fixtures and functions. 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 Moston
Six trading estates and business parks lie inside a 5km circle around Moston, along with retail sites such as Harpurhey Shopping Centre, Cheetham Hill Retail Park and Manchester Fort Shopping Park, North Manchester General Hospital, five stations and 308 pubs, bars and clubs. That density means incidents at one site can quickly affect neighbours, and cover often needs adding at short notice.
Services in Moston
Moston clients can book these services as a one-off emergency placement or as ongoing cover.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk figures for Moston are missing from this page, and here is why.
The force covering the area, GMP, has not been sending a full set of records to Police.uk, and a partial count would mislead more than it informs. The local neighbourhood team's stated focus, set out below, is a better guide for now. To understand the risks at your own address, our free on-site security audit (a £250 value) works through a 25-point risk checklist.
Local Policing
The Moston and New Moston neighbourhood team at GMP has set five areas of focus: road safety, drug dealing, anti-social behaviour, burglary and serious youth violence.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Moston.
Areas We Cover Near Moston
Newton Heath and Harpurhey are each a mile from Moston, and Blackley is 2. Our short-notice and contract cover extends to all of them.
Postcodes We Cover in Moston
The 7 postcode districts nearest central Moston, covering parts of Manchester, Oldham, Tameside, Bury and Salford.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Moston Security FAQs
Phone our control room, which is staffed 24/7. We will look to place an SIA-licensed officer from the 125 active in our local pool to hold the premises while shutters, doors or glass are fixed. Burglary sits on the Moston and New Moston team's priority list.
GMP's submissions to Police.uk are incomplete at present, so we leave the numbers off. What we can point to is the Moston and New Moston team's list: road safety, drug dealing, anti-social behaviour, burglary and serious violence involving young people.
Retail makes up 11.9% of Manchester businesses, and Harpurhey Shopping Centre, Cheetham Hill Retail Park and Junction Trade Park are all within 5km. We place uniformed guards and store detectives, including short-term placements while a problem is dealt with.
With our alarm response and key holding in place, the activation is received by our control room and one of our officers goes to the unit, whether it is on Navigation Trading Estate, Crown Business Centre or Satellite Park. You get a written digital report afterwards.
Seventy-one construction sites are mapped inside 5km. Contractors can book CCTV towers, night and weekend patrols or a static officer to keep plant and materials where they belong, stepping cover up if a site starts attracting attention.
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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.
Whether it is tonight's gap or next year's contract, ring 0800 471 4792, or ask for the free £250 audit of your Moston site.
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