When you’re searching for a security company Gillingham that actually understands the town’s crime patterns, Region Security Guarding delivers SIA-licensed guards, dog handlers and 24/7 monitoring across the Medway towns. We’re built for the sites where a locked door isn’t enough: warehouses, retail parks, construction hoardings and busy high streets.
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Kent Police’s most recent figures put Gillingham’s overall crime rate at around 81 offences per 1,000 residents, roughly 15% above the county average. Criminal damage and arson are recorded at 1.43 times the national rate, and violent and sexual offences sit at 1.21 times the national rate, with over 4,000 reports logged locally in the past year.
Kent Police’s own force-wide response average runs close to 19 minutes for emergency calls, well outside the 15-minute national target, and priority calls take considerably longer.
Each of those figures maps to a specific gap in coverage, and that’s what our services are built to close. The response-time gap is why our static guard or gatehouse presence matters most. Someone already on site can intervene and log an incident with a reference number before police arrive, rather than reporting damage that’s already been done.
The elevated criminal damage rate is why our overnight mobile patrols and CCTV monitoring are typically paired on industrial and retail sites; a scheduled sweep past a vulnerable fence line or shutter catches an attempt in progress instead of confirming it the next morning.
And the higher rate of violent and sexual offences locally is why manned guards on retail and business park sites are trained in de-escalation, not just observation, so a guard’s presence lowers the temperature of a situation rather than just documenting it.
Region Security Guarding holds SIA Approved Contractor status, ISO 9001:2015 certification, NASDU association for K9 units and SafeContractor approval, solid proof that our guards meet strict national safety and quality standards.
All officers fully SIA licensed & vetted
Quality management system certified
Health & safety compliance accredited
Four core disciplines, one management team, one point of contact, whatever mix your site needs, we can flex the cover without adding a second supplier to manage.
One guard is posted at a single fixed point: a gate, a reception desk, or a store entrance. They provide a written brief on who’s authorised to enter and what to log, so access decisions never depend on guesswork.
Our Guards verify vehicle registrations and driver ID against a pre-approved list, record arrival and departure times, and issue visitor passes. This gives you a running log of everyone who’s been on site and when.
Our handler and trained dog sweep yards, warehouses and perimeters faster than a foot patrol alone. They cover ground a single guard would need far longer to clear and act as a visible deterrent the moment they arrive.
We assign a guard to the fixed patrol route across your site. They check entry points, fire exits, and blind spots on a rotation agreed with you. They handle visitor sign-in and incident response as they arise during the shift.
Before a single guard is booked, one of our supervisors walks the site with you. That visit covers access points, previous incidents, delivery times, and any areas you already know are vulnerable: a fire exit that doesn’t lock properly, a fence line that backs onto waste ground, a loading bay with no camera coverage. That walk becomes a written site brief, not a verbal handover.
Guards aren’t assigned from a generic list. Someone covering a construction site needs a different brief to someone on reception at a healthcare centre, so we match guards by relevant experience and, where needed, run them through a short site-specific induction before their first shift.
Supervisors then carry out unannounced spot-checks during the contract, not scheduled visits the guard knows are coming, but genuine checks that a checkpoint routine is actually being followed.
At agreed intervals, you get a short written debrief covering what was logged, anything flagged as a risk, and any change we’d recommend to the patrol pattern. If your site changes, a new delivery schedule, a fence repair, a change in opening hours, the brief gets updated, and guards are re-briefed, rather than carrying on with an outdated routine.
From retail parks off the A2 to riverside industrial estates, our teams are built around the sectors that actually make up Gillingham.
Our static cover is posted at the compound gate to control plant and material access, with a mobile patrol checking the fence line and storage containers overnight once the site is unmanned.
Our guards patrol loading bays, perimeter fencing and yard storage on a fixed rotation, with vehicle and delivery checks logged against your goods-in schedule for sites across Gillingham Business Park and Medway City Estate.
We position the guard near the entrance during trading hours to manage shoplifting risk and difficult customers directly, then switch to perimeter checks once the unit closes. They cover both daytime and after-hours risk on one contract.
Reception-based guards manage visitor sign-in and deliveries during the day, with access control extended to out-of-hours entry for occupiers who need staff able to come and go outside standard hours.
Guards are briefed on de-escalation procedures specific to patient-facing environments, managing entry points and responding to incidents without disrupting clinical areas.
Access control is set up at building entrances with a visitor log, paired with scheduled patrols through communal areas and car parks during the hours residents flag as higher risk.
Three things set us apart from the next quote in your inbox: how fast we mobilise, how transparently we track our own guards, and how long our people actually stay.
We’re ranked in the top 25% of UK security companies, and our pricing is aligned with public sector benchmarks rather than set at a premium for Kent clients. Once a site brief is agreed, we can typically have a guard confirmed and on-site within hours rather than days, and cover is backed by contingency planning so a guard calling in sick doesn’t leave your site unmanned while a replacement is found.
Every guard we deploy checks in via QR scan every 45 minutes. Every incident generates a written report with photos and, where applicable, a police reference number attached. That level of documentation matters when insurers ask questions after a break-in, or when you simply want proof that the 2 am patrol actually happened. It’s the same discipline we’d want if we were paying for the service ourselves, which is really the whole point.
Every guard placed on a Gillingham site holds a current SIA licence and is vetted before deployment. Our operation meets ISO 9001:2015 quality management, SafeContractor-approved health and safety standards, and Constructionline Silver and SMAS Worksafe certification. This matters if your head office requires supplier vetting as a contract condition. None of that sits in a folder. It’s checked against every guard we roster, not just quoted in a proposal.
| Area | What We Cover Locally |
|---|---|
| Gillingham Town Centre | High Street retail patrols, evening footfall checks |
| Gillingham Business Park | Warehouse, office and retail occupier guarding along the A2 |
| Rainham | Shopping centre static guarding, industrial yard patrols |
| Twydall | Residential estate patrols, out-of-hours checks |
| Hempstead | Construction site compound and perimeter cover |
| Wigmore | Housing development patrols, local retail parades |
| Grange | Estate access control and community patrols |
| Brompton | Low-profile static cover for sensitive and MOD-adjacent sites |
| Rochester | Riverside office guarding, retail and event security |
| Chatham | Dockyard-adjacent commercial site patrols |
| Strood | Industrial estate perimeter and gatehouse cover |
| Walderslade | Residential and light commercial static guarding |
| Lordswood | Industrial estate patrols, gatehouse staffing |
| Bredhurst | Rural business park static and mobile cover |
| Parkwood | Retail unit and estate access control |
| Cuxton | Small commercial site and yard patrols |
| Frindsbury | Riverside industrial and logistics site covers |
| Wainscott | Warehouse and distribution site patrols |
In most cases, we can deploy uniformed, SIA-licensed guards within 24 hours of confirming a site, though same-day cover is often possible depending on current local availability.
The guard on shift responds directly, logs the incident with a reference number where police are involved, and you receive a written debrief at the next agreed reporting interval, not weeks later.
A supervisor walks your site first and writes up a brief covering access points, risks and patrol routine. The assigned guard is briefed on that before their first shift begins.
Every guard logs a QR check-in roughly every 45 minutes through our REMS tracking system, and you receive timestamped reports with photos after each shift completes.
Yes, we hold Constructionline Silver membership, SafeContractor approval and SMAS Worksafe certification, so guards are pre-qualified for construction and industrial site work without extra paperwork.
We don’t write our own reviews. Here’s what site managers, retail owners, and property developers around Medway have shared after working with our teams.
Book a free site risk walkthrough, and we’ll map out exactly where your premises are exposed, using local crime data and your own site layout as the starting point.
Practical guidance on patrol planning, site vulnerabilities and guard briefing practice, written for property managers and business owners operating across Medway.
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Whether you need a single static guard for a High Street unit or a full patrol plan for a business park site, our Kent-based team can walk your site and have a written brief ready within days.
Get a free, no-strings-attached consultation for your security services, just fill in the form below.
