The phrase "a secure compound" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place that is fortified or protected, often in the context of safety or security.
Example: "The military base is known for being a secure compound, with high walls and surveillance systems in place."
Alternatives: "a fortified area" or "a protected facility".
Oxfam said it had temporarily suspended work in the camps until the weekend, with staff staying within a secure compound until security conditions have been reassessed.
The car has been taken to a secure compound.
Searching for a secure compound, the soldiers happened upon the walled grounds of the medical college.
U.S. intelligence eventually located him in Pakistan, living in a secure compound in Abbottabad, a medium-sized city near Islamabad.
One American official who knew about the meeting cast doubt on the decision to move the diplomats out of a secure compound.
Some officials have questioned the wisdom of evacuating the Americans from a secure compound, saying the area should instead have been locked down.
At the Roadway in Bell, a seemingly secure compound surrounded by a fence topped with razor-wire with a guard shack monitoring anyone approaching, a reporter was not allowed to enter or question employees.
At least 200 people were killed when al-Qaida bombed the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998; US diplomats then moved to a more secure compound outside the city centre.
Stray horses that were rounded up and put in a supposedly secure compound were spirited away in the dead of night.
In a confidence game that made a mockery of the United States military's most secure compound in Iraq, a ring of Americans posing as contractors and their Nepalese drivers used tanker trucks, forged documents and sheer brazenness to steal at least $40 million worth of jet and diesel fuel from an Army depot, according to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Virginia on Friday.
At one stage, his offices, inside a secure police compound, mysteriously burnt down.
