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Patrick Walsh, manager and technician at Center for Security in Clifton Park, offers many options for the safety of homes and businesses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Christine Graf<\/p>\n

For more than two decades, Center for Security has been providing locksmith and security services to residential and commercial customers throughout the Capital Region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy father (Tom Walsh) started on his own in the 1990s and then went into business with his partner, Scott Hogan,\u201d said Patrick Walsh, manager and technician at Center for Security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After outgrowing their first shop in Clifton Park, the business relocated to a larger space at 1659 Route 9 in Clifton Park. The partners later added a second location at 16 Main Street in Queensbury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The company\u2019s 15 employees have decades of experience, most having been with the company for many years. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had the same group of guys working for us for a long time,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of on-the-job training, and it takes years to learn the ins and outs of locks. You learn a lot of it by being out on the road\u2014learning how to pick locks in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>Center for Security offers a wide variety of locksmith services, installing and re-keying locks, cutting keys, and assisting customers who have been locked out of their cars or homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of automotive lock outs and fit keys to cars when people lose their keys. It\u2019s astounding how many people lose keys and don\u2019t have a backup set,\u201d said Walsh.<\/p>\n

For the majority of car lock-outs, Center for Security technicians are able to travel to the customer\u2019s location, performing on-site service. The company has nine service vans, with technicians on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe usually have three lock-outs a day, and we drive right out to where the vehicle is,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cBut some cars have to be towed back to our showroom\u2014higher end-cars like BMWs.\u201d<\/p>\n

BMWs as well as some other luxury cars, are more complicated to unlock than their less expensive counterparts. At the opposite end of the spectrum are some Kia and Hyundai models, ones with keys that don\u2019t have transponders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why they are the number-one most stolen cars,\u201d said Walsh.<\/p>\n

For those in need of a backup set of car keys, Center for Security offers car key duplication services. Because car key technology is constantly changing, the cost of replacement keys has risen significantly. For some makes and models, replacement keys can cost upwards of $350.<\/p>\n

Center for Security\u2019s product line includes a large selection of safes and vaults, and the company offers 24\/7 emergency safe opening, combination changes, and safe and vault repair. They also sell and service alarm systems, closed circuit surveillance systems, and a full line of handicap door openers, buttons, sensors, receivers, and transmitters. The company also installs commercial entrance doors–aluminum storefront entries and hollow metal replacements. Rounding out their extensive product offerings is replacement glass for commercial and residential customers.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve expanded so much in the last fifteen to twenty years,\u201d said Walsh when discussing the products and services the company offers.<\/p>\n

Although they do sell and install the latest electronic locks for homeowners, Walsh said they recommend \u201cold school\u201d locks for residential applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to tell people to go mechanical because those locks are less likely to fail. We like to stay with the old school locks\u2014ones with keys and deadbolts\u2014because electronics do fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an example, Walsh said homeowners may find themselves unable to enter their homes when the power goes out or their WiFi isn\u2019t working.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For commercial customers, Center For Security recommends keyless entry systems that feature card access and audit control.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see who scanned in and when. You can also set it up to clock employees in and out,\u201d said Walsh, noting that the technology for these systems continues to evolve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, visit centerforsecurity.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Christine Graf For more than two decades, Center for Security has been providing locksmith and security services to residential and commercial customers throughout the Capital Region.\u00a0 \u201cMy father (Tom Walsh) started on his own in the 1990s and then went into business with his partner, Scott Hogan,\u201d said Patrick Walsh, manager and technician at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":39936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workplace-security-legal"],"yoast_head":"\r\nThe Center For Security Offers Its Customers Sophisticated Or \u2018Old School\u2019 Lock Systems - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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