Security Services in Harborough

Most things, honestly. We provide security services in Harborough, across Leicestershire and nationwide, with 21 specialist security services on offer.

The everyday side is guards and door staff. Key holding, alarm calls and visits to empty buildings come next. We spend plenty of time in warehouses and distribution yards, usually on the gatehouse, and on building sites too. Shops, hotels and pubs are regulars. A school or pharmacy now and again. And events, from a corporate dinner to a full outdoor festival. If yours doesn’t fit a category, ring us anyway.

Yes, and it’s some of the most demanding work in the district. Magna Park near Lutterworth is around 16 million sq ft of logistics space, and in May 2026 Marq Logistics put forward plans for up to 3.23 million sq ft more. More sheds means more trailers, more contractors on site and more building plots sitting empty overnight.

Manned guarding in Harborough at a site like that means a gatehouse that logs every vehicle, checks seals against paperwork and doesn’t wave anyone through because the queue’s getting long. At night it’s the trailer park and the fence line. Commercial security in Harborough also means watching the plot next door, because building sites and empty units nearby draw people testing the perimeter. Every quote for security for commercial properties in Harborough starts with us walking your site, and our risk mitigation services in Harborough come from what we find. If a better lock fixes it, we’ll tell you.

Leicestershire Police currently list drug dealing in Market Harborough as one of their three priorities for the area. They’re running plain-clothes patrols, gathering intelligence and applying for warrants. That’s police work.

What we can do is stop your premises becoming part of the problem. Our officers keep entrances, rear yards and car parks clear, move people on from private land, report anything suspicious straight to the police and keep body camera footage and written notes that hold up later. If the same faces keep turning up behind your building, that record is what gets something done about it.

Two separate things, but they often turn up together. Harborough District Council has an alcohol Public Spaces Protection Order covering Market Harborough and Lutterworth town centres. Police and authorised officers can tell people to stop drinking and hand it over, with a £100 fixed penalty for refusing. Police have also named anti-social behaviour on e-bikes and e-scooters as a priority, with names passed to the council for follow-up.

Our officers can’t enforce the order, so no fines. What private security guards in Harborough can do is keep your doorway and car park clear, refuse entry and write down what happened, with times and descriptions. When it’s the same riders or the same group every week, that’s the evidence police and the council need.

You fill in the council’s Event Notification Form and email it, with any supporting documents, to the events team. It then goes to every member of the Event Safety Group, who may come back to you with questions. The council’s clear that running a safe event stays the organiser’s responsibility, and licences and insurance are on you.

So get us involved early. Event security in Harborough works best when the security plan is written into the event plan from the start, so the Event Safety Group can see who’s on the gates and how the crowd will be managed. For shops and bars around The Square, security for events in Harborough might simply be an extra door supervisor on the night the Christmas lights go on.

We do. Airfield Business Park on Harrison Road, on the north side of town, has a new phase of 11 industrial and warehouse units from 1,500 to 67,000 sq ft, next to the Harborough Innovation Centre. It’s a mix of food production, trade and storage.

For sites like these, it’s usually a gate officer during working hours and patrols after dark. New units sitting empty before tenants move in need visits too, because that’s when cable and copper go missing. Once a site’s busy, you can switch from patrols to a full guard without changing provider.

We do a fair amount of that. Shops between tenants, offices waiting for a buyer and units on the estates all turn up across the district.

Vacant property security in Harborough means visits at random times and a proper check inside and out each time. Private property security in Harborough suits owners who live away, and we’ll hold keys so nobody has to drive over at 1am when the alarm trips. Managing agents and residents’ groups book community security in Harborough for shared parking courts and communal doors, and the cost of our community security services in Harborough can be shared out between households. New-build developments also use us for security for residential properties in Harborough while homes are handed over. Property security in Harborough is really just someone turning up, checking properly and telling you what they found.

Depends what happens there out of hours. A locked unit, a closed office or a house while you’re on holiday usually just needs security patrols in Harborough, and they cost a fraction of a guard. Visit times change every night, doors, windows and fences get checked, and each stop is logged with GPS and photos.

If there’s stock moving, staff working, cash or customers about, you want a person on site. Plenty of clients do both: a guard in the day, patrols at night.

Same day, most of the time. Ring in the morning and we can usually have someone with you by the afternoon. After a break-in, or if another firm’s guard hasn’t arrived, emergency cover reaches you within 2 to 4 hours. Planned cover normally starts a day or two after we’ve agreed the brief.

You can hire security guards in Harborough for one evening, a few months or years, and there’s no long tie-in. If an alarm turns out to be a genuine break-in, our officer calls Leicestershire Police, keeps the scene untouched and stays until the building’s secure. Call 023 8111 2814, or send the form and we’ll email back within 4 working hours.

We can. Much of Harborough district is farmland and villages, from Foxton and Lubenham to Husbands Bosworth. Farms, equestrian yards and rural businesses get hit for machinery, fuel, tools and quad bikes, usually at night and often from vehicles that don’t belong in the lane.

Random-timed patrols, a key holder on call and an alarm someone actually answers do more for most rural sites than a full-time guard, and cost far less. For high-value kit or a site that’s been hit before, a static guard for a few weeks can break the pattern.