Selly Oak brings together major hospitals, a University station, student streets around Bournbrook and busy retail parks, and Go Security fits guarding, retail officers and patrols to each of those very different settings.
Trusted Protection in Selly Oak
Selly Oak packs a lot of variety into a small radius. Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital sit within reach, a station called University serves the area, and police describe a student area around Bournbrook where residential burglary is a concern. Battery Retail Park and Selly Oak Retail Park draw shoppers, and 246 pubs, bars and clubs are mapped within 5km. Go Security plans each site around its own users and hours.
Selly Oak Business Profile
Five hundred and ten people in our network live inside a 10-mile radius of Selly Oak, and 210 of them hold valid SIA licences and take bookings. Among them are officers qualified for K9 work. Every one has cleared BS 7858 vetting and is employed on PAYE, never as a casual contractor.
Birmingham is home to 38,605 registered businesses: 5,245 in professional services, 4,695 in retail and 3,795 in construction. Health and care accounts for 7.5% of firms set against 4.4% nationally, and retail for 12.2% set against 7.8%. Those weightings favour front-desk security, support for staff on their own and store detectives over heavy static guarding.
The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre, Bournbrook and Selly Oak Social Club and Avenue Members Club host gatherings, and any venue or event for 200 or more will need to satisfy Martyn's Law once it arrives. 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 Selly Oak
Five stations, Selly Oak, University, Bournville, Pineapple Road and Kings Norton, keep people moving through the area. Industrial land sits at Birkdale and Lemar industrial estates, Stirchley Trading Estate and The Glassworks, while healthcare ranges from the Oaklands Centre to St Andrew's Healthcare.
Shoppers by day, nightlife into the evening and hospitals that never close create overlapping needs. With 49 construction sites mapped nearby, site security joins retail and healthcare on the list.
Services in Selly Oak
Selly Oak businesses, venues and healthcare providers can book any of these services, managed from our 24/7 control room.
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 counted 5,624 crimes inside one mile of Selly Oak.
Violence and sexual offences made up 2,089, about 37%. Shoplifting was second at 823, then criminal damage and arson at 416, vehicle crime at 410 and public order at 393. Overall crime and shoplifting each climbed 20% when the most recent quarter is set beside the same months a year before. Retailers, car park operators and anyone running late venues have clear reasons to review their cover.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
West Midlands Police's Selly Oak team is running Operation Stance against shop-related crime, tackling speeding and parking in Selly Park, and targeting residential burglary around Bournbrook.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Selly Oak.
Areas We Cover Near Selly Oak
We also cover Bournville, Stirchley and Harborne, each about 1 mile from Selly Oak.
Postcodes We Cover in Selly Oak
The 10 postcode districts nearest central Selly Oak, covering parts of Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Solihull and Sandwell.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Selly Oak Security FAQs
Yes. Police.uk puts shoplifting 20% higher in the most recent quarter than a year before, with 823 offences across the year. Police are running Operation Stance on shop crime, and store detectives can add protection inside your premises.
Health and care is 7.5% of Birmingham's business base, comfortably above the 4.4% British figure. For clinics and wards we provide front-desk officers, escorts for staff leaving late and a vetted keyholder for alarms overnight.
Within 10 miles of Selly Oak we have 510 registered security workers, and 210 of them are licensed and taking bookings. That depth supports multi-site contracts and posts that run day and night.
We provide SIA-licensed door supervisors for venues such as Underground and Avenue Members Club. With 246 pubs, bars and clubs mapped nearby, evening cover is a large part of local demand.
Forty-nine construction sites are mapped within 5km of Selly Oak. CCTV towers, static guards and out-of-hours patrols help keep plant and materials secure.
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