Greetings:
I took the Foley-Belsaw locksmith course a few years back so I'm a "certified locksmith" but am by no means a professional locksmith. I do use the knowledge gained to perform minor service on locks in the emergency communications center I work for and was recently asked what I thought would be the best structural security plan for our new center to be constructed in
2006.I said a prox card system with various access levels for the electronic end of things so we would not have to mess with a lot of key control. We will however need all doors with a prox card reader to have a key bypass in the door itself as a backup. I recommended a 6 or 7 pin Best IC Core System. All doors individually keyed except the outside doors to their own key, and the whole system with a master key. Myself and the agency director would likely carry the master key, with all others including the control key locked in a safe in my office.
I'm sure the construction company will have a source for locks, but I want input on who that is. There are a couple of one man operations here in town but I would prefer to order the cores myself because of the seucirty involved. I don't want anyone local to have the codes to combinate the locks or produce keys. I have been using Security Lock Distributors for the minor stuff here lately, but would be interested if anyone has any good recommendations for a distributor that can combinate a system, make keys, and send it all for me to install. Until OUR cores are in, we'll probably just require the construction company to either supply their own cores and keys for the outside doors, or supply some for them. Once the construction is over with, we'll remove and dispose of those cores or sell them on ebay and install our system.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a better plan?