Property Security
Property Security Services
Guardian Edge designs, installs, maintains and responds to property security systems throughout the UK — CCTV, intruder alarms, access control, intercoms, automatic gates, keyholding, alarm response, boarding up and vacant property protection, delivered by one provider across single sites and national portfolios.
Electronic security, access control, perimeter protection and response.
Who this is for
- Property managers and managing agents
- Facilities managers with security systems across multiple buildings
- Landlords, letting agents and housing providers
- Commercial, retail, industrial and logistics operators
- Owners of vacant or part-occupied property
Problems it solves
- Cameras are installed but the footage is unusable when it is actually needed
- Nobody knows who still holds a working access fob
- An alarm activates and there is no agreed response other than a director's mobile
- A vacant building is attracting trespass, theft or fly-tipping
- Systems across the portfolio are from five different installers on five different contracts
- The gate has failed and the site cannot operate until someone attends
What Guardian Edge provides
Our property security scope
What we provide
- CCTV — design, installation, commissioning, maintenance and remote monitoring integration
- Intruder detection and hold-up systems
- Access control, from single doors to networked multi-site systems
- Door entry and intercom systems for residential and commercial buildings
- Automatic gates and barriers, including safety compliance
- Keyholding and alarm response
- Boarding up, emergency securing and vacant property protection
Typical scope
- Single properties through to national multi-site estates
- New systems, extensions, takeovers and replacement of legacy equipment
- Planned maintenance with scheduled visits and reminders
- 24-hour reactive attendance for failures and incidents
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Understand the risk
What has actually happened at the site, what the insurer requires, and what the building's use demands.
- 02
Survey the site and the existing systems
Coverage, blind spots, cable routes, power, network availability and the condition of what is already installed.
- 03
Design against the outcome
Identification, recognition, observation or detection — cameras specified for the job they need to do, not the resolution on the box.
- 04
Report and price
Itemised, with the operational cost of monitoring or response stated up front.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Programme agreed
Dates, access, working hours and any need to keep the site operational throughout.
- 02
Installation
By directly managed engineers, with containment and cabling installed to last.
- 03
Commissioning and configuration
Camera views set and recorded, retention configured, user permissions built, and the system demonstrated to your team.
- 04
Handover and documentation
As-fitted details, user guides, admin credentials handed to you, and the system placed on a maintenance schedule.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- CCTV that records identifiable individuals is processing personal data. The UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply, and the ICO's video surveillance guidance sets out what that means in practice.
- You need a lawful basis, signage that tells people they are being recorded and who operates the system, a retention period you can justify, and a way of responding to subject access requests.
- Automatic gates are machinery. The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 apply to new installations, and existing gates must be maintained in a safe condition — force testing and safety edge verification are part of that, not an optional extra.
- Guardian Edge does not publish manned guarding or door supervision services. Where a requirement calls for licensable SIA activity we will say so and work with a licensed provider rather than imply a capability we do not hold.
Standards & legislation
These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.
- Legal requirementUK GDPR / DPA 2018
Data protection duties for CCTV operators
Lawful basis, transparency, retention limits and subject access rights all apply to identifiable CCTV footage.
Read the primary source → - British StandardBS EN 62676
Video surveillance systems for use in security applications
Design, installation and operational requirements, including the DORI classification used to specify camera performance.
- British StandardBS EN 50131
Alarm systems — intrusion and hold-up systems
Grading and design requirements for intruder alarm systems, commonly referenced by insurers.
- British StandardBS EN 12453
Safety in use of power operated gates and doors
Force limitation, safety devices and testing requirements for automatic gates.
Ongoing support
Planned, reactive and multi-site.
Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.
Planned maintenance
- Scheduled maintenance visits across every security asset on every site
- Firmware, retention and storage health checked rather than assumed
- Access control user lists reviewed so leavers are actually removed
Reactive support
- 24-hour attendance for system failures, break-ins and damage
- Emergency securing and boarding up
- Alarm response and keyholding
Multi-site & national portfolios
- One security contract covering every site regardless of manufacturer
- Consistent platform across the estate so your team learns one interface
- Portfolio reporting on system health, open faults and upcoming works
Procurement, simplified
What happens next?
- 01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
- 02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
- 03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
- 04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
- 05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
- 06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.
Answers
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for property security.
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.