Lock and Unlock Services

Your most vulnerable times aren’t during the day.

Early morning openings.

Late night lock-ups.

Quiet handover periods.

When staff are working alone.

Moving your opening and closing routines to SPS removes reliance on internal staff and ensures your site is secured consistently, safely and with full accountability.

Every visit includes

Clean, consistent delivery for opening and closing routines.

A safer, more professional alternative to staff lock-up

Asking staff to open or lock up a commercial premises alone — particularly early in the morning or late at night — creates significant lone worker risk and personal security exposure. If an intruder is on site, or if a problem is discovered during the routine, a member of staff attending alone is in a vulnerable position. By transferring your lock and unlock routine to SPS Security, you eliminate that risk entirely and ensure every visit is carried out by a trained security professional.

Our officers will open your premises at an agreed time each morning, carry out a basic security check, and lock up securely at close of business. Every visit is documented and any issues found during the lock or unlock — from unsecured access points to signs of damage — are reported immediately and escalated through our 24/7 control room.

Full audit trail and compliance documentation

Full audit records are maintained for every visit, providing a clear and verifiable trail of who attended, when they attended, what was checked and what was found. This level of documentation is increasingly important for businesses with insurance or compliance requirements, particularly in sectors such as education, retail and healthcare where accountability for site security is closely scrutinised.

Our lock and unlock service is fully integrated with our keyholding and alarm response service, creating a seamless out-of-hours security arrangement. If an alarm is triggered after lock-up, the same keyholder relationship means our officers can respond immediately without delay.

Consistent, reliable cover seven days a week

SPS Security provides lock and unlock cover seven days a week, 365 days a year, across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire including Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster, Grimsby, York and surrounding areas. We handle all holiday and absence cover internally, so your opening and closing routine is never dependent on a single individual. All officers are SIA-licensed, vetted and trained to the same professional standard.

Lock and unlock duties are often specified as part of wider reactive security works contracts, alongside keyholding and alarm response. SPS can deliver these as a standalone arrangement or as part of a joined-up out-of-hours security model.

What the service includes

• Scheduled daily opening and closing visits
• SIA-licensed officers for every visit
• Basic security check included on each attendance
• Full audit trail and visit records
• Immediate incident escalation via 24/7 control room
• Integration with keyholding and alarm response
• Available 7 days a week across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Take the risk out of opening and locking up your premises. Request a no-obligation quote from SPS Security today.

North Bank and South Bank Mobile Response Coverage

SPS delivers mobile patrols 365 days a year across the Humber region and wider Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Our North Bank and South Bank coverage model helps clients understand where patrol support is coordinated from, while keeping the language realistic and regionally focused.

Wider managed coverage where required

SPS directly delivers mobile patrols, keyholding and alarm response across our core Hull, East Yorkshire, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire and wider Yorkshire & Lincolnshire operating areas.

Where clients have sites beyond our direct mobile patrol footprint, SPS can support wider coverage through selected SIA-approved partner providers. SPS remains responsible for managing the service model, reporting expectations, escalation process and client relationship, helping multi-site clients maintain a consistent standard even where local response is delivered through an approved partner.

Combine services where the site needs more than one layer of support

These services are often delivered together so clients can combine response, attendance, access support and scheduled checks through one local operational model.

Lock and unlock FAQs

Practical questions clients usually ask before putting a scheduled opening and closing routine in place.