Selsey's recent crime figures have climbed, with criminal damage and anti-social behaviour prominent. Our mobile patrols, CCTV towers and key holding are arranged to answer exactly that kind of pressure on local premises.
Trusted Protection in Selsey
Police.uk counted 805 offences inside one mile of Selsey between September 2025 and August 2026, and the most recent quarter sat 42% above its counterpart a year earlier. Behind violence and sexual offences, at 278, came anti-social behaviour on 232 and criminal damage and arson on 100. For a workshop, holiday business or farm unit, broken windows, graffiti and nuisance riding are the realistic threats, and visible patrols plus recorded camera coverage tend to blunt them.
Selsey Business Profile
We do not publish a local head count of officers for Selsey, so cover is drawn from the wider Go Security network across West Sussex. That suits the work here, which leans towards scheduled mobile patrols, key holding and alarm response rather than permanent posts. Each officer carries an SIA licence, has cleared BS 7858 screening and sits on PAYE, and every visit is tracked through GPS book-on in our 24/7 control room.
Chichester district holds 6,875 registered businesses, led by professional services with 1,235 and construction with 925. Two sectors outrun the national picture. Agriculture accounts for 6.8% of firms against 4.5% across Great Britain, which brings a need for rural patrols and solar-powered camera towers on open land. Professional services, at 18.0% versus 15.6%, point to offices wanting reception cover and someone trusted to hold the keys.
Selsey Pavilion, the local cinema, is the named venue within 5km. If an audience of 200 or more gathers there after 2027, Martyn's Law duties will apply, and stewarding can be supplied for screenings and events. 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 Selsey
There is no rail station within 5km, and the commercial footprint is compact: Trident Business Park and Ferry Yard Industrial Park make up the named estates. Small units like these often stand empty overnight, so alarm response and locked-up checks carry more weight than a guard on the gate.
Seven pubs, bars and clubs operate within the same radius. Combined with the police focus on scrambler bikes and catapult misuse, that suggests evening and weekend nuisance is worth planning for around shopfronts and yards.
Services in Selsey
Selsey premises usually draw on a small set of services, chosen to suit quiet units, open land and evening trade:
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Twelve months of Police.uk data for the one-mile area around Selsey show a rising curve and a damage-heavy mix.
Violence and sexual offences lead at 278 and anti-social behaviour follows at 232, but the 100 cases of criminal damage and arson matter most to property owners. Public order added 67 and other theft 32. The jump of 42% in the latest quarter compared with the same months a year before is the figure to watch. Practical answers include lit and monitored perimeters, regular patrol visits and a named key holder agreed in advance.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Sussex Police's Selsey North and South team is concentrating on anti-social behaviour, including catapult misuse, nuisance electric scrambler bikes, and drug-related harm.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Selsey.
Areas We Cover Near Selsey
Beyond Selsey, our coverage takes in Bognor Regis at 6 miles, Chichester at 7 miles and Emsworth, 10 miles away.
Postcodes We Cover in Selsey
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Selsey, covering parts of Arun, Chichester and Havant.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Selsey Security FAQs
Police.uk does not give causes, but it shows the latest three months running 42% above the same period a year before. Anti-social behaviour, with 232 reports, and criminal damage, with 100, are prominent. Regular patrols and monitored CCTV give premises owners a measured way to respond.
Agriculture makes up 6.8% of firms in the Chichester district, well above the 4.5% national share. For farmyards and machinery stores we use rural mobile patrols, solar CCTV towers that need no mains supply, and POD intruder alarms linked to our control room.
Units on estates such as Trident Business Park or Ferry Yard Industrial Park are often empty after hours. Key holding with alarm response, plus scheduled lock and unlock checks, keeps someone accountable for the building without paying for a full-time guard.
We cannot police roads, but the Selsey North and South team lists illegal scrambler bike use as a priority. On private land we can advise on barriers and add patrols and camera coverage, and our digital reports give you dated evidence to pass on to Sussex Police.
Professional services make up 18.0% of local firms, above the 15.6% national figure. Offices typically choose key holding, alarm response or reception cover, and our free security audit, with its 25-point checklist, helps decide which is proportionate.
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Phone 0800 471 4792 for a free on-site audit worth £250. We will look at damage risk, empty-hours exposure and access, then quote for patrols or cameras.
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