South Brent is a place of farms, a single business park and very little recorded crime. Agriculture makes up 16.4% of South Hams businesses, so our work here centres on rural patrols, solar camera towers and alarm response.
Trusted Protection in South Brent
Mapping shows few commercial sites within 5km of South Brent: Brent Mill Business Park, The Barn at Barons Hill Farm and 3 pubs. There is no station, no shopping centre and no mapped building site. Police.uk recorded only 4 offences inside a mile in a year. In a setting like this, the worry is less about crime levels than about property far from neighbours, where a break-in at a barn or unit could go unseen until morning.
South Brent Business Profile
South Hams has 5,320 registered businesses. Agriculture is the biggest sector with 870, then construction with 720 and professional services with 650. Farm property suits rural patrols on changing schedules and solar CCTV towers that need no power cable. We serve South Brent from our wider officer network; each officer is SIA-licensed, BS 7858 vetted and paid by PAYE.
Manufacturing is also a little above the national figure, at 5.9% of firms compared with 4.6%. Workshops and production units, perhaps on sites like Brent Mill Business Park, generally need alarm response, key holding and access control rather than full-time guards. Contractors with plant stored on farms or in yards can ask for temporary camera towers, monitored through an NSI Gold accredited monitoring centre.
The Barn at Barons Hill Farm is the events venue listed nearby. Gatherings of 200 or more will need to account for Martyn's Law after it commences, and we can supply stewards and event security for weddings, parties and shows. 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 South Brent
The Totnes West police team has linked its local priority to the summer months, mentioning parks, open spaces and local events alongside anti-social behaviour. For South Brent, that suggests seasonal pressure on farmland and venues rather than a steady crime problem. Owners of barns, event spaces and isolated units can use patrols at varied times and monitored alarms to cover the gap when nobody is on site.
Services in South Brent
These services can be arranged for a South Brent farm, workshop, event barn or rural business.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
From September 2025 to August 2026, Police.uk logged just 4 offences in the one-mile area around South Brent.
Two of those were violence and sexual offences, one was anti-social behaviour and one other theft. Figures this low say more about how quiet the area is than about any trend. The real exposure for a rural business is the distance from help if something does happen, which is why alarm monitoring, key holding and patrol checks are worth considering.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
South Brent is covered by Devon & Cornwall Police's Totnes West team, whose current priority concerns anti-social behaviour around parks, open spaces and local events during the summer.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers South Brent.
Areas We Cover Near South Brent
Buckfastleigh is 4 miles from South Brent, Ivybridge 5 miles and Modbury 6 miles. The full list of covered towns follows.
Postcodes We Cover in South Brent
The 6 postcode districts nearest central South Brent, covering parts of South Hams, Teignbridge, Plymouth and West Devon.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
South Brent Security FAQs
No. Police.uk shows only 4 offences within a mile over 12 months. The bigger issue for farms and units is their distance from neighbours, which monitored alarms and patrol checks help to cover.
Agriculture makes up 870 of South Hams' registered businesses, or 16.4%. We provide rural mobile patrols at unpredictable times and solar CCTV towers that work without mains power.
Yes. The Barn at Barons Hill Farm is listed near South Brent, and police mention local events in their summer priority. We supply SIA-licensed stewards and door staff, and help organisers plan for Martyn's Law.
Manufacturing accounts for 5.9% of South Hams firms. Alarm response, key holding and access control suit workshops, with every attendance recorded by GPS and a digital report sent to you.
We also cover Buckfastleigh at 4 miles, Ivybridge at 5 miles, Modbury at 6 miles, and Ashburton and Totnes at 7 miles, so properties spread across the area can share one patrol route.
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We can carry out a free security audit of your South Brent farm or business, worth £250, or give you a quote on 0800 471 4792.
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