Stone has a small but fully licensed officer group close by: five officers in our network live within 10 miles, and all five are SIA-active. We plan their shifts around the town's estates, shops and surrounding farms.
Trusted Protection in Stone
Every officer registered near Stone holds a current SIA licence, which means the whole local group can be rostered. Five people is a compact team, so our 24/7 control room books them for regular posts and patrol routes and brings in support from wider rotas when a contract needs more. That suits Stone's mix of Mount Industrial Estate, Walton Industrial Estate and Stone Business Park, town-centre shops and farmland across the Stafford district.
Stone Business Profile
With five licensed officers in our network living locally, Stone contracts are planned rather than improvised. The same faces return to the same sites, which helps with access codes, routines and staff familiarity. Each officer is BS 7858 vetted and employed on PAYE, and every visit is recorded by GPS book-on with a digital report sent from our control room.
The Stafford council area has 5,520 registered businesses: 740 in professional services, 700 in construction and 585 in agriculture. Farming's share of 10.6%, against 4.5% nationally, makes rural patrols and solar CCTV towers relevant across the district. The motor trade is also above average at 4.0% versus 3.0%, so forecourts benefit from CCTV towers and overnight patrols.
Crown Wharf theatre and The Lamb Inn are among the venues within 5km. Any gathering there of 200 or more people will fall within Martyn's Law in 2027, and we can provide stewards to help organisers prepare. 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 Stone
Stone's commercial sites are mostly industrial: Old Joules Works, Mount and Walton industrial estates, Stone Business Park and Douglas Park all fall within 5km. The town has its own station but no hospital or retail park in that radius, and 26 pubs and bars plus seven construction sites are mapped. Police concerns about Westbridge Park and the town centre show that evening nuisance and retail theft are the everyday issues.
Services in Stone
The services below can be arranged for a Stone industrial unit, shop, pub, farm or building site.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk logged 1,185 offences within a mile of Stone during the twelve months ending August 2026.
Violence and sexual offences made up 492, about 42%. Anti-social behaviour came second with 217, then public order with 113, and criminal damage and arson and other theft with 73 each. The notable figure is the trend: the latest three months were 24% higher than a year earlier. Combined with police concerns over anti-social behaviour and shoplifting, that rise is a good reason for businesses 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
Staffordshire Police's Stone Town team is dealing with anti-social behaviour in Westbridge Park, drug supply in the town centre, and low-level nuisance and shoplifting around B&M.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Stone.
Areas We Cover Near Stone
Eccleshall is 5 miles from Stone, while Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent are each 7 miles away. We also work in the towns listed below.
Postcodes We Cover in Stone
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Stone, covering parts of Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Stone Security FAQs
Our records show five officers with home addresses inside 10 miles of Stone, each one SIA-active. Because the group is compact, regular posts go to them first and the control room tops up from teams further afield.
Police.uk shows the latest three months were 24% higher than the same period a year earlier, out of 1,185 crimes in the year. Our no-cost site audit, normally £250, tests your premises against 25 points so you know where to act.
Local police mention low-level anti-social behaviour and shoplifting in the town centre, particularly around B&M. A uniformed officer at busy times deters theft and supports staff, with incidents logged digitally.
Yes. Mount Industrial Estate, Walton Industrial Estate and Stone Business Park are all within 5km. We run locked-up patrols, hold keys, attend alarms and fit POD intruder alarms on empty units.
Agriculture makes up 10.6% of Stafford district businesses, more than double the British share. Off-grid camera towers and patrol drivers checking gates and barns give farmers a timed, written record of each visit.
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Ask us for a free on-site audit, worth £250, or phone 0800 471 4792 for a quote on guarding, patrols or key holding in Stone.
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