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5 Cracking Ways to Improve Your Business Security this Easter
Ready to make some changes to your business security strategy this Easter? Even small changes can make a big difference! Here are 5 cracking ways to improve your security and help keep your [...]
Why Choose a Security Industry Authority Approved Contractor?
What does SIA mean? SIA is an acronym for the Security Industry Authority – a national organisation responsible for regulating the private security industry. An independent body who report to the Home Secretary, [...]
What is Home Response and Why Do I Need It?
What is Home Response? Our Home Response service is designed to keep your property safe. With domestic burglary rates increasing, adding an additional layer of security to your home is a sensible move. [...]
What is Alarm Response and Why Do I Need It?
What is Alarm Response? Alarm Response is a service put in place to respond to alarm activations at your business premises on your behalf. As a local business employing local people with extensive [...]
What is Key Holding and Why Do I Need It?
What is Key Holding? Essential for the vast majority of organisations, Key Holding is, quite simply, a key holding service which works to increase security, save you time and money and give you [...]
KeyPlus Achieve New ISO Accreditations
KeyPlus Awarded New ISO Accreditations Every day, thousands of lives are lost due to accidents in the workplace or from work-related diseases. These deaths could – and should – be prevented. ISO 45001, [...]
What Are Mobile Patrols and Why Do I Need Them?
What are mobile patrols? Mobile patrols are randomly timed internal and external foot patrols put in place to help protect your business. A more cost-effective solution than a static security guard, mobile patrols [...]
KeyPlus Awarded £1M Security Contract
KeyPlus awarded £1m security contract for Lancashire County Council We're delighted to have been awarded a major contract to provide security services to Lancashire County Council. The 4-year tender, will see the company [...]
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Business Security
Top tips for keeping your business secure in 2019 With the New Year upon us, it’s a great time to reflect on things to change or improve during the next 12 months. Whether [...]
Deter the Festive Felons this Christmas
Avoid the festive felons Analysis of crime statistics from the financial year 2016/2017 has revealed that the number of robberies, burglaries and thefts committed over the Christmas holidays are soaring. Each day of [...]
How to Stay Safe and Secure This Winter
Want to stay safe and secure this winter? It’s only a matter of time before those morning frosts get thicker and the rain turns into snow. According to the Met Office, the UK [...]
The Key to a Happy Christmas?
Could we be the key to your Christmas happiness? With the festive season upon us, there’s a million and one things to remember - presents, turkey, tinsel… the list can seem endless. On [...]
SIA Approved Security
Following continued business growth, KeyPlus have made another key appointment installing Neil Windsor as Operations Director.
KeyPlus Celebrate Living Wage Pay Rise
KeyPlus owner Brian Curran has continued his promise to voluntarily go further than the government minimum wage requirement.
What Is A Police URN and how do you keep it?
Do you expect the Police to attend your property whenever the alarm activates? If you do, it’s important you understand when the Police will and won’t attend.
Security Service Upgrades 40 Lancashire Sites
With the cold and rainy winter firmly upon us, many business owners and Human Resource departments are reviewing their security and health and safety provision.
Employees can and do say No!
Employees can and do say No! What’s your backup plan? Health and safety, lone working and work/life balance all come into play now and we have a responsibility and duty of care to safeguard employees well-being.
Case Study Inficon
Read our Case Study by Inficon, Blackburn and see how they value the security provided by an SIA Approved Contractor KeyPlus
Business First & KeyPlus secure growing partnership
Lancashire patrol, alarm response and key holding specialist KeyPlus Security, have been appointed Security Response providers for Business First business centres across Lancashire. The latest appointment at the Blackpool Business First centre, brings the number [...]
17 Lancashire Schools Sign Up To New Security Provision
KeyPlus, the Lancashire patrol and response security company have announced a new contract award which will see them provide security services to 17 Lancashire Schools and Children’s Nurseries. Schools and Nurseries are regularly targeted by [...]
KeyPlus Appoint Office Manager as Growth Continues
KeyPlus are pleased to confirm the appointment of Office Manager Alison Stansfield as we continue to expand coverage across Lancashire. Building upon our Burnley and Blackburn client base and following the recent expansion into Preston, [...]
Top 10 Considerations for Securing Your Business Property
How do you manage the security of your business premises and the people you employee within it? As a Key Holding and Alarm Response business, KeyPlus takes a look at the experiences of our clients [...]
How do you define Key Holders responsibilities?
In the year to 31 March 2016, there has been a 300% increase in the number of company directors prosecuted for health and safety offences. The research from law firm Clyde & Co. takes information [...]
KeyPlus Achieve Highly Accredited SIA Approved Contractor Award
KeyPlus, the East Lancashire based Security Patrol and Response company, has again been awarded the highly accredited SIA Approved Contractor award. The SIA (Security Industry Authority) is the national organisation responsible for regulating the private [...]
Excellent, great & good!
For our most recent customer survey we decided to focus on the words people use rather than a numbered scoring system. Why? Well, we wanted to know what people really think about KeyPlus the company, [...]
Caught red-handed, almost…
Mobile Response Supervisor, Warren Graham discovered a hidden rucksack when attending a recent alarm activation. The premises consist of several vacant mill buildings situated on a large sprawling site, bordered by a canal. A remote CCTV [...]
Is your organisation over-reliant on the Police?
Over the Easter weekend, a group of around 10 men are believed to have undertaken a heist that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Hollywood movie. The Hatton Garden Bank in London fell [...]
ACS accreditation renewal
The rigorous annual audit of our systems, policies and procedures by Ian Hawkridge of CCAS resulted in all boxes being ticked. The 89 point checklist requiring a 100% score was surpassed with a rating of +18. Well [...]
9 out of 10 alarms are false
Surprising statistic? It is when you consider that the 89% rate relates to professionally installed/maintained systems, by accredited and reputable companies! Click here for more information and see the figures behind this statistic.
Welcome PLT
Yet another prestigious multi-contract win for KeyPlus following a successful trial period which began earlier this year. Feedback received so far includes: Excellent levels of service with outstanding communication channels – just wish we had [...]
Who responds?
Does your business have an Intruder Alarm or CCTV system? Is your system monitored by a 24-Hour Alarm Receiving Centre? (Type A) Do you have a ‘Speech Dialler’ installed (Type B) Who attends and investigates [...]
KeyPlus installs GPS vehicle tracking systems
After quite a bit of searching, KeyPlus opted for the web-based vehicle tracking system from Tracker. We have all been very impressed with the level of customer service received so far and love how we can now [...]
5 Cracking Ways to Improve Your Business Security this Easter
Ready to make some changes to your business security strategy this Easter? Even small changes can make a big difference! Here are 5 cracking ways to improve your security and help keep your [...]
Why Choose a Security Industry Authority Approved Contractor?
What does SIA mean? SIA is an acronym for the Security Industry Authority – a national organisation responsible for regulating the private security industry. An independent body who report to the Home Secretary, [...]
What is Home Response and Why Do I Need It?
What is Home Response? Our Home Response service is designed to keep your property safe. With domestic burglary rates increasing, adding an additional layer of security to your home is a sensible move. [...]
What is Alarm Response and Why Do I Need It?
What is Alarm Response? Alarm Response is a service put in place to respond to alarm activations at your business premises on your behalf. As a local business employing local people with extensive [...]
What is Key Holding and Why Do I Need It?
What is Key Holding? Essential for the vast majority of organisations, Key Holding is, quite simply, a key holding service which works to increase security, save you time and money and give you [...]
KeyPlus Achieve New ISO Accreditations
KeyPlus Awarded New ISO Accreditations Every day, thousands of lives are lost due to accidents in the workplace or from work-related diseases. These deaths could – and should – be prevented. ISO 45001, [...]
Accreditations
KeyPlus Security Limited currently holds SIA Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS) status for the provision of Key Holding and Security Guarding.
