Protect your home or business with security keyholding
Security keyholding gives a trained security team access to your premises so they can respond when an alarm sounds or an emergency occurs. Angleside securely holds your keys and can attend out of hours, check the property, take any necessary steps to secure the building and contact the emergency services if needed.
This service is suitable for businesses and property owners who want a rapid response without asking staff, family members or neighbours to attend an out-of-hours alarm trigger. It can be used on its own or along with CCTV and alarm monitoring or mobile patrols.
How Keyholding Works
You provide Angleside with an authorised set of keys, digital lock keycodes, and instructions for your premises. If an alarm or other alert occurs, our response team can attend, access the site and follow the steps we agree with you in advance.
Depending on the situation, this could include:
- Checking the building for signs of a break-in or damage.
- Resetting an alarm when an investigation indicates a false trigger
- Securing doors, windows or other access points.
- Contacting and liaising with the police, fire service or another relevant authority.
- Updating your nominated contacts about what has happened.
- Filing a written report of the incident and any actions taken
We would agree on the access arrangements and response procedures with you in advance so our team knows what to do during an incident.
Secure storage
Your keys and keycodes are securely held, locked away and can only be issued to authorised personnel who will sign the keys out and back in on return.
Customer keys are stored securely in a locked cabinet
Why Use a Keyholding Service?
Attending an alarm trigger yourself at any time of day or night is inconvenient and may put your safety at risk. With professional keyholding, you have a trained security team available to respond instead.
Security keyholding can help you by:
- Eliminating the need for you to attend your premises in the middle of the night.
- Reducing the pressure on staff who would otherwise respond to alarms.
- Ensuring that there is someone available to respond to alerts at your home or business premises when they are unattended.
- Keeping spare keys secure with access limited to authorised personnel. (Also useful if your main set is lost or stolen.)
- Supplementing your existing alarm response, CCTV monitoring or patrol arrangements.
- Rapidly intervening in suspected break-ins or fire alerts.
Keyholding does not prevent every incident. It does provide a planned and timely response if an alert occurs, promoting personal safety, reduced costs and inconvenience.
Keyholding for Businesses
We can provide flexible keyholding arrangements that respond to the changing needs of your site, opening hours and existing security systems. The service may suit:
- Offices and commercial premises.
- Shops and retail units.
- Warehouses and industrial sites.
- Residential buildings and vacant properties.
- Organisations with several sites or out-of-hours alarm cover needs.
If you manage more than one location, we can discuss the access arrangements and response plan for each site.
Lock and Unlock Services
As your appointed keyholder, Angleside can arrange to lock or unlock your business premises at agreed times. This can help when staff need early access, your business closes late, or you want a trusted security provider to check that everything is secure at the end of the day.
A Flexible Security Plan
Angleside can provide keyholding as a standalone service or combine it with other security measures that we provide. Depending on your requirements, your plan may include:
- Alarm or CCTV monitoring.
- Mobile patrols and site checks.
- Attendance following an alarm activation.
- Key management and access procedures.
- Agreed escalation steps for different types of incidents.
We will discuss your risks and requirements and your available budget and recommend only the services that give you the levels of protection you need. You can contact our team to arrange a free consultation and talk through your situation