Are your engineers DBS checked?
Yes. All Locks & Alarms Ltd engineers are DBS checked and fully qualified, and every engineer is employed directly, never a subcontractor. A DBS check is a criminal record check run through the UK Disclosure and Barring Service. The review record backs this up: Checkatrade reviewers describe letting the same family into their homes for 13 and 20 years.
What a DBS check is
DBS stands for the Disclosure and Barring Service, the UK government body that runs criminal record checks. A basic check shows unspent convictions; standard and enhanced checks go further and apply to specific roles. Employers use DBS checks to help judge whether someone is suitable for work that involves trust, such as entering customers' homes.
A DBS check is a snapshot, not a guarantee. It is one piece of evidence about a person, alongside references, track record and how a firm actually behaves in customers' houses.
Locks & Alarms Ltd's DBS status
Yes. All engineers are DBS checked and fully qualified. Locks & Alarms Ltd employs its engineers directly and never subcontracts, so the person entering your home works for the firm that answers the phone.
Subcontracting breaks that chain: a company can vet its own staff, but it can only take another firm's word for anyone it borrows. Here the DBS check and the employment sit in the same place. Ask the question again when booking your free quote, you will get the same straight answer.
What the review record shows about trust
What can be verified is how customers describe having this family in their homes over long periods. A Checkatrade reviewer in SE28 wrote that over twenty years “Neil and his sons are always polite, helpful and respectful when in and around my home”. A DA7 reviewer wrote: “I have been using Locks and Alarms for about 13 years”. A CR3 customer has used the firm since 2009.
A DA2 reviewer put it plainly: “It doesn't matter who you speak to - Neil, Jon or Craig - we trust their advice.” Thirteen and twenty years of repeat access to the same homes is not a certificate, but it is a record.
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