What is mobile guarding?
Mobile patrols combine visibility, rapid response, and adaptability, helping to protect premises, assets, and people more effectively than static guarding while complementing other security measures.
With mobile security services, professional officers patrol multiple sites or areas in a vehicle, on a bike or on foot. Officers follow scheduled or random routes to deter crime, monitor premises, and respond quickly to incidents.
Patrols can cover large areas, external perimeters, and remote locations, ensuring no part of a site is left unattended. This means your security coverage across multiple locations can expand quickly, using fewer security personnel.
Mobile guarding can also integrate with other security systems, such as CCTV, alarms, and access control, to create a layered security approach. For many businesses, this flexibility makes mobile guarding a practical and proactive solution.
How mobile patrols benefit your business
Comprehensive coverage across your sites
Mobile security patrols provide flexible security coverage across buildings, car parks, and external areas, ensuring nothing is left unattended. They act as a visible deterrent and can cover large areas efficiently, making them a cost-effective alternative to static guards or cameras alone.
Flexible and unpredictable patrols
Schedules can be tailored to peak risk periods or randomised to create unpredictability, reducing opportunistic crime while reassuring employees, customers, and visitors. Each patrol operates in fully marked vehicles, providing a visible presence that limits criminal activity and anti-social behaviour, keeping your premises and staff safe.
Operational support beyond security
Patrols can perform routine checks, such as ensuring fire exits and access points are clear, doors and windows are locked, and maintenance issues are reported. This adds practical value beyond crime prevention, supporting safety and compliance while potentially reducing costs on property management services.
Cost-effective and scalable
Fewer officers can cover larger areas efficiently, reducing staffing costs while maintaining, or often improving, high standards of protection. Services can scale up or down to meet seasonal demand, additional sites, or changing business hours. As your security needs evolve, our flexible service adapts with you.
Integrated with wider security solutions
Mobile patrols work best when combined with other services, for example, CCTV monitoring, keyholding and alarm response and monitoring. This layered approach delivers both proactive deterrence and rapid incident response, providing comprehensive, complementary protection for assets, employees, and visitors alike.
Here’s how one business is already using mobile guarding as part of an integrated security approach.
How XCELERATE GYMS benefits from mobile guarding
When XCELERATE GYMS expanded across the UK and overseas, they partnered with Securitas for a scalable, all-in-one security solution. By combining remote CCTV monitoring, mobile patrols, and maintenance support in one monthly package with a fixed cost, they achieved consistent coverage across multiple gyms without the cost or complexity of traditional guarding. This integrated approach provided both visibility and rapid response, helping to safeguard staff, members, and premises while supporting the business as it grew.
Mobile guarding: a smarter security solution for UK businesses
Mobile patrol services offer businesses in the UK a flexible, cost-effective, and proactive security solution. By combining wide-ranging coverage, rapid response, and added operational value, mobile patrols provide protection that evolves with a business’s needs. When integrated with other security services, they form a robust, layered approach that deters crime and mitigates risk.
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