Safe Opening And Locksmith Services

Certified Safes Ireland™ provide well known organisations and private clients with an efficient and highly cost-effective locksmith, safe and vault technician service, including nationwide coverage, 7-day support and emergency safe and vault opening.

Certified Safes Ireland™ chief safe and strongroom technician, Keith Cribben, is a licensed locksmith with vast industry experience both in Ireland and other European countries. Keith, like all ICS Group partners has high level security clearance for both government and NATO work as well as Garda Siochana vetting.

Amateur safe technicians or locksmiths, inexperienced with safe and strongroom design, in particular anti-manipulation and counter drilling mechanisms, will often cause so much damage to a certified safe or strongroom’s barrier material as to render the unit ineffectual for secure storage voiding the unit’s original certification.

Emergency Safe Opening And Strongroom Opening

Mechanical safe lock manipulation

Mechanical safe and strongroom locks have always been prone to failure for a wide variety of reasons. Wear and tear, keys broken or jammed, levers or combination wheels jammed, a mechanical time lock movement stopped, dampness leading to corrosion, dirt, lack of maintenance or key loss are just some of the obvious issues that can lock-out a mechanically locked safe or strongroom at the most inconvenient time imaginable. Certified Safes Ireland™ can open the majority of mechanically locked safes and strongrooms through non-destructive lock or combination manipulation (NDE - Non-Destructive Entry).

 Electronic safe lock opening

Certified digital locks, while a lot more dependable, can still malfunction over time due to lack of maintenance, code loss, water damage or on very rare occasions, a manufacturing fault. As most electronic locks have anti-manipulation counter measures, targeted drilling is usually the only recourse. The European safe and strongroom standard EN1143-1 has strict rules when it comes to how an emergency safe or strongroom opening is to be performed, so complete knowledge of this standard as well as the most up to date emergency safe and strongroom opening methods is required to affect an EN1143-1 compliant emergency safe or strongroom opening. Certified Safes Ireland™ provide an expert emergency safe and strongroom opening service that protects both the integrity of your certified secure storage facility and your long-term security and insurance compliance interests. If your safe or strongroom has to be drilled open, it will be done so in a manner that allows it to be repaired to its certified standard. All work will be completed in strict compliance with best practice for emergency secure storage access.

Safe Opening, Safe And Strongroom Technical Services

• Emergency safe opening - NDE (non-destructive entry/covert entry of mechanical safe and vault locks)
• EN1143-1 compliant opening for digital safe and vault locks
• Installation and servicing of safes and data cabinets
• Safe moving/relocation
• Disposal of safes, cabinets and vaults including asbestos contaminated secure storage disposal
• ATM servicing and maintenance
• Fireproof cabinet servicing and maintenance
• Servicing and maintenance of (POS) till units, time lock, time delay units, drop units etc.

Locksmith Services

• Master key security cylinders
• Secure inter-locking for high-risk security areas **
• Door closers & hinges
• Push bar exit fittings
• Repairs & maintenance of existing locks and hardware on steel, wood, or aluminium doors
• Design & install bespoke locking systems
• General steel works including welding locks/hinges on steel doors and security equipment

Qualified And Trained In The Installation, Service And Maintenance Of

• Mas Hamilton
• ASSA/Abloy
• KABA
• Sargent & Greenleaf
• Wittkopp
• LaGuard
• Kwikset
• Schlage
• Baldwin
• Yale
• Corbin Russwin
• Mul-T-Lock
• RR Brink
• Medeco
• Lowe And Fletcher

and many more ...

 For Free, Confidential Expert Advice Call: +353 1 7076011

Certified Safes Ireland™ in-house advisor on keeping jewellery, watch collections, goods, cash, documents and data, safe, secure, yet readily accessible, is Alan Donohoe Redd.

Alan Donohoe Redd is an expert member of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Working Group responsible for writing European Standards for safes, strongrooms (vaults), secure cabinets and physical data protection for the European Union and an expert for U.S. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel TC72 covering standards for fire resistance of record protection devices. Alan is also a registered NATO supplier and the longest standing member of the Frankfurt based European Security Systems Association (ESSA) in Ireland. 

Alan has a vast range of experience spanning over 40 years encompassing installation of safes, strongrooms, physical data protection, firearms security, secure storage of pharmaceuticals, security doors and equipment used for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) in government, military and I.T. sectors. He has provided advice to the U.S. Air Force (Europe), An Garda Síochána (Irish Police Service), the Danish Police, and for government projects concerned with high level cyber, physical data and counter electronic eavesdropping security.

An expert on standards and fraud issues related to secure storage in Europe, the UK, and the historical use of asbestos in UK and European safe and cabinet manufacturing, Alan has advised top UK and US law firms and has had articles on standards, fraud and safety issues published by The Law Society Gazette and Irish Broker Magazine as well as being pivotal in having misleading standards and practices recognised and withdrawn in Ireland, the UK and at a European legislative level. Alan has forced retractions of dozens of false claims related to secure storage offerings to the public including some published by the Irish Times in relation to Merrion Vaults and Lloyds of London.

Alan's seminars on safes, strongrooms and high net worth secure storage have been part of Continuing Professional Development for underwriters and insurers having been awarded CPD points by the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK).

 Alan's expertise has been relied on by:

N.A.T.O. Europe, The U.S. Air Force (Europe), An Garda Síochána (Irish police service), The National Treasury Management Agency (Ireland), The Department of Communications (National Cyber Security Centre) (Ireland), The Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland) The Revenue Commissioners (Ireland), Electricity Supply Board (Cyber Security) (Ireland), The Danish Defence Forces (Afghanistan), PayPal (Worldwide), Grant Thornton, The Insurance Institute of Ireland, The Chartered Insurance Institute (UK), The Royal College of Surgeons, BFC Bank, Interxion Data Centres, Isle of Man Gold Bullion, Brown Thomas, Bvlgari, Boodles, Druids Glen, The Shelbourne Hotel, and many others ....