Call us today on 02476 368 186 for a free review of your current arrangements or advice on any security issue

24 hr on-site Guard Protection

All our fully SIA licensed staff are trained to fulfil a wide range of roles and to integrate seamlessly into your own team to ensure a secure, welcoming and professional working environment.

Whether you’re looking for short or long term cover for security receptionists or front of house personnel, retail security staff or professionally managed access control, we’re able to help.

• Front of house security staff
• Receptionists
• Concierge management
• Uniformed and non-uniformed guarding
• Access control
• CCTV monitoring
• Security porters
• Licensed door supervisors
• Store detectives
• Cash Collections
• Cash Collectors

Retail, Industrial & Commercial Guarding

A visible security presence is a recognised deterrent and a uniformed security officer from Mercia Securities can help provide peace of mind for other staff and divert potential problems.

All our staff are SIA licensed and fully trained to professionally and calmly handle all manner of situations.

We can provide security for the following types of business:

• Retail premises security
• Business centre security
• Reception area security
• Factory security
• Warehouse security
• Empty premises security
• Airport security
• Hospital security
• Pubs & clubs security
• Construction site security
• Vehicle compound security
• Exhibitions & special event security
• Parks & estate security

CCTV & Remote Monitoring

With criminal activity and anti-social behaviour on the increase, electronic monitoring of your home or business property is an excellent way to protect your premises.

• CCTV cameras provide an immediate deterrent and can considerably aid crime prevention, preventing property damage or criminal activity before it happens
• Remote monitoring of CCTV footage helps to ensure speedy Police response
• Is a recognised way to reduce your insurance premiums
• Digitally recorded images of evidential quality can help identify the accused should there be a prosecution following a crime on your premises

Live feeds are closely monitored at our Control Centre 24 hours a day by our experienced staff. Highly trained to recognise and interpret events, they are able to assess a situation and take the appropriate action, be it to call the Police or send a mobile patrol to prevent non-criminal disturbance on your property.

Key Holding & Alarm Response

Regulations lay down by the Association of Chief Police Officers state that keyholders must be able to attend their premises within 20 minutes of being notified that their alarm has been triggered.

• What would happen if YOUR alarm was triggered tonight?
• Would be able to attend if you were ill, on holiday or had had a drink?
• Would you really want to be dragged out of bed to go into an empty building alone?

Our Alarm Response and Keyholding service is a cost-effective way to release you from these responsibilities.

When notified of an alarm activation, our Control Centre will send an immediate response unit to deal with the incident. Once onsite, we’ll investigate with a full external and internal search of the premises. Whether it’s a false alarm and the system simply needs resetting and premises securing, or there has been an intrusion and Police or emergency contractors are called, our mobile patrol will deal with the situation quickly and efficiently. You’ll receive a full written report of the action taken and can rest easy knowing that your premises are secure and staff are not exposed to unnecessary danger.

Patrol services

Ensuring your premises are secure can be a headache. When you leave each night, the business is a potential target for any would be intruder.

Crime prevention with Mobile Patrols
Mobile patrols offer an excellent preventative and very affordable security service to all types of business and private clients. Because costs are shared by other customers in the same patrol area, the service offers significant cost savings over the traditional full-time dedicated security guard.

All our Patrol Guards are SIA licensed, fully equipped with the latest technology and highly trained to deal to a wide range of situations effectively and confidently, ensuring that any incident will be resolved in a professional and speedy manner.

Our Mobile Patrol service offers

• Patrols operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Random visits to avoid anticipation by potential intruders
• Regular checks for signs of intrusion/open doors & windows, property damage and vandalism or graffiti
• An early warning and fast response to any incident

Personal protection

Today more and more people are recognising the need for personal protection. Our specialist close protection team offer not only the peace of mind and first rate level of security service you are looking for, but an understanding of your personal needs.

Be it TV or media celebrities, sports personalities or business executives our team is sensitive to the individual needs of their charge and have the experience to sensitively handle any situation.

Event security

The first line in protection and image

In many circumstances the first point of contact at your event is with a member of the security team. As such, that team must be an effective ambassador for your company or event and be able to confidently and professional manage any situation that arises.

Mercia Securities has provided security and steward services for exhibitions & shows, concerts & festivals, sporting events, product launches, private parties and corporate functions. We can supply any number of fully SIA licensed staff, all highly trained for the following roles, to provide a safe environment and an enjoyable experience.

• Stewards
• Security staff- uniformed or plain clothes
• Turnstile operators
• Gate staff
• Car park attendants
• Ticket collectors
• Front of house staff
• Hospitality staff

Confidential waste shredding & disposal

Compliant destruction of sensitive materials is vital to your business

With crimes such as identity theft on the increase and ever tighter data protection regulations, secure shredding is an essential part of your company’s security policy.

Holding information for excessive periods not only incurs unnecessary storage costs but it leaves you vulnerable to risks of theft, misuse and non-compliance fines. Under the Data Protection Act, the confidential and secure destruction of any data which could identify a living individual is a legal requirement. Failure to comply is a criminal offence that carries fines of up to £5,000.

Reduce this risk with secure shredding of all your confidential material
Mercia Securities can help with our document destruction service. Our operators will collect your sealed bags/containers and transport them to our secure facility where they will be totally destroyed, and all shredded paper recycled.

You will be issued with a certificate of destruction, detailing the time, date and quantity of documentation destroyed so you can rest assured that your sensitive, confidential information is not going to get into the wrong hands or create potential legal problems.

If like many companies you’ve not got a secure system for disposing of your confidential information, pick up the phone and call us today and remove the risks before it’s too late.