Business Keyholder Program
Key Holder Contact Program
Registration into Kawartha Lakes Police Service’s Key Holder Contact Program ensures peace of mind to business property owners by ensuring nominated emergency key holders can be contacted in the event of an incident occurring on their property when left un-attended.
The Key Holder Contact Program is a secure system that instantly provides relevant key holder information to the police. You can be assured that your details will be held securely and are only made available to authorized personnel and only while dealing with an incident on your property.
Is registration open to all residential and non-residential properties?
Registration is available to businesses within the town of Lindsay and former township of Ops. Registration applies only to businesses and is not intended for residential properties.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Registration enables police to be able to contact you or your nominated key holders in the event of an incident occurring on your property or if your alarm is causing a noise nuisance. The police have a responsibility to act on noise nuisance and property owners could potentially incur costs from forced entry if they are unable to contact a key holder.
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Yes. Any information recorded through this program is fully secure and only accessible to police in an official capacity when dealing with an incident on your property.
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As well as peace of mind, you will be able to update your information as often as you like instantly by logging into the Kawartha Lakes Police Service web site. Any changes you make are instantly updated by police in a secure data base within the Kawartha Lakes Police Service.
Police recommend no more than 3 key holders for one property however you can have as many as you like.
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There is NO cost for this program being offered by the Kawartha Lakes Police Service.
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You can register online through the Kawartha Lakes Police Service website, by filling out the registration form and using the Email button within the form to send it to the Kawartha Lakes Police Service, or by mailing a registration form to the Kawartha Lakes Police Service at 6 Victoria Avenue North, Lindsay, ON, K9V 4E5 or faxing your registration to 705-324-8055.
Submit online REGISTRATION (download to your computer first) or print a copy to mail or fax.
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Registrations remain in our system indefinitely as long as you are in business. If your circumstances change you must submit another form informing us of any new details. Please mark the form as AMENDED after entering the Business Name. This is mainly to ensure that all information held in the service is always kept up to date.
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First you must ensure that you are contactable in the event of police need you to attend the business:
Ensure that you are available by telephone.
Notify police, through this web site, of any change of address and/or your contact numbers. This is vital information for the Key Holder Database to function properly.
You must able to attend the property in a reasonable amount of time.
You are also responsible for securing the property and to do this, you will need to know how the alarm system works (if there is an alarm), the alarm PIN numbers, entry and exit routes etc.
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In the event police call you, as a key holder, you will be expected to do the following:
Attend the premises without delay with the property keys
If the Police are in attendance, make yourself known to them and assist them as necessary.
If an alarm is sounding turn the alarm off soon as possible
Allow the police to check that the building is clear. Ensure that there is no damage to the property. If repairs do need to be carried out, then it is your responsibility to organize that e.g. calls to a locksmith.
Finally, when the property is safe to leave, secure the property.