Homes and businesses share the streets of Winson Green, a Birmingham district, and its firms do not always get notice before trouble arrives. Our control room, open around the clock, books guards, dog handlers, key holders and patrols when a premises needs help unexpectedly.
Trusted Protection in Winson Green
A forced shutter on Heath Street Industrial Estate, a supermarket facing a run of thefts, street racing around Spring Hill: these are the kinds of problems local police describe around Winson Green. When one lands on your business, call us. We can arrange a licensed officer to secure the site, a dog team for large or open yards, a key holder for alarms, or a CCTV tower while a longer plan is agreed.
Winson Green Business Profile
The network here is large: 530 security workers in our network live within 10 miles of Winson Green, 215 hold a current SIA licence and can be booked, 90 have a car, 15 work with dogs and 5 are trained for CCTV duties. All are vetted to BS 7858 and employed on PAYE, and every patrol is checked in by GPS and logged with our control room.
Of Birmingham's 38,605 registered businesses, 5,245 are professional services firms, 4,695 are retailers and 3,795 are builders. Retail's 12.2% share, against 7.8% nationally, means store detectives and uniformed officers are in steady demand. Healthcare and care providers, at 7.5% of firms compared with 4.4% elsewhere, tend to want a staffed front desk, someone looking out for staff on solo shifts, and overnight presence.
New Bingley Hall, the Jewellery Quarter Conference Centre and the Blue Orange Theatre are all within 5km. Martyn's Law will put duties on venues of 200 or more capacity from 2027, and our event teams can help with stewarding and search. 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 Winson Green
Winson Green combines homes with commercial land. Within 5km lie Benson, Summerfield and Hockley industrial estates, the Boulton Industrial Centre and Middlemore Business Park, alongside Tollgate Shopping Centre, Grand Central and the Newtown Centre.
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital and Summerfield Urgent Care Centre are nearby, and five stations, including Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Snow Hill, sit in the same radius. There are also 357 licensed premises in that radius, so evening trade is part of the picture.
Services in Winson Green
Book emergency or planned cover for a Winson Green shop, yard, clinic or venue using the services below.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Over the year to August 2026, Police.uk logged 9,642 offences in the mile around Winson Green.
Violence and sexual offences made up 4,481, about 46% of the total. Vehicle crime followed with 818, then criminal damage and arson with 690, public order with 641 and other theft with 558. The newest quarter ran 4% ahead of its 2025 equivalent, and shoplifting climbed 15%. Vehicle crime and damage hit yards and car parks hardest, which is where patrols and CCTV towers help.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
The Winson Green team at West Midlands Police is working on long-standing crime and ASB including street racing around Spring Hill, and shoplifting at supermarkets such as Tesco Spring Hill and Lidl Dudley Road.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Winson Green.
Areas We Cover Near Winson Green
Handsworth, Lozells and Ladywood are each a mile from Winson Green, and Smethwick is 2 miles. The full list of nearby areas appears below.
Postcodes We Cover in Winson Green
The 9 postcode districts nearest central Winson Green, covering parts of Birmingham and Sandwell.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Winson Green Security FAQs
Our 24/7 control room can arrange a licensed officer to secure the premises, followed by key holding, alarm response or a CCTV tower. Locally, 215 licensed officers from our network are open to bookings inside 10 miles.
Yes. Fifteen handlers with dogs live inside 10 miles. K9 security suits large or open sites such as yards on Benson or Summerfield industrial estates, where a handler and dog can cover a wide perimeter.
The local police name shoplifting at Tesco Spring Hill and Lidl Dudley Road as a priority, and shoplifting within a mile rose 15%. Store detectives and uniformed officers deter theft and keep evidence-ready records.
Behind violence, vehicle crime ranked next, at 818 offences. Car park patrols, CCTV towers and monitored cameras help deter theft from and of vehicles.
Care and health organisations are 7.5% of the city's firms, well over the 4.4% British level. We can staff reception desks, check on employees working alone and keep watch overnight.
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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.
Ring 0800 471 4792 if your Winson Green premises needs cover, or book our free on-site security audit, a £250 service, to plan ahead.
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