Keyholding & Alarm Response

Protect you and your staff by employing a professional Keyholding Company.

Risk Management Security Services offer a complete Keyholding & Alarm Response service ensuring that employees are not called to site unnecessarily.
You are putting yourself or a member of your staff at risk if you do not employ a Keyholding Company. Expecting staff to be a Key Holder and respond outside of office hours generates obvious risks. By employing us to be your key holder, one of our trained Security Guards will deal with any situation from a simple reset of the alarm system, to a potentially dangerous occurrence.

Association Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Guidelines & Health and Safety: New ACPO guidelines together with health and safety responsibilities are forcing companies to re-evaluate their key holding and response arrangements.

• The ACPO guideline for police attendance to false alarm activation has been reduced to just 2 over a 12 Month Period. After which the response is withdrawn and will only to be reinstated when a secondary verification system has been installed.
• Employers Duty of Care places stringent requirements upon Companies and organisations Directors who face full Responsibility to protect their employees.

Reasons to employ us as your Keyholding Company:

• Eliminates Lone Worker Risk
• Avoids your own staff driving to site who may be over the legal drink drive limit
• Avoids staff being exposed to potential danger either on route or once at site
• Avoids staff remaining on site out of hours resulting in reduced productivity the next day
• You don't have to worry about providing cover for holidays
• If one of your staff (a lone worker) suffer an accident or is attacked and injured whilst acting as a key holder attending an Alarm Response, they may have reasonable claim in court for compensation
• Avoids staff remaining on site out of hours resulting in reduced productivity the next day
• We are trusted by many national security companies as a subcontractor to provide Alarm Response services
• We operate 24 hours a day, do you?

Benefits of our Keyholding Service:

• Alarm Response can be provided to business premises and homes
• Service provided in accordance with BS7984 (Code of Practice for Keyholding & Alarm Response Services)
• SIA Licensed and vetted Officers attending your premises
• Can be set up within 24-hours notice
• Keys will be security coded, stored securely and fully covered by our insurance
• Lost Key Service
• Manned 24-hour Control Centre
• Unique pricing structure to suit all requirements

How it works:

As soon as our Control Centre receive notification from the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) of an intruder alarm activation an Officer from our Patrol & Alarm Response Team will immediately be dispatched to the premises to conduct a thorough check of the building and ascertain the cause of the alarm. If it is a false alarm the Officer will liaise with the ARC and reset the system. Should a break-in have occurred we will make arrangements for “boarding up” of windows and doors where necessary after liaising with the Police and alarm company.

If you do not have a burglar alarm currently installed at your property, please contact us for assistance.

To view our company brochure on Keyholding & Alarm Response please click here.