The two Operations Centers of Istituto di Vigilanza La Patria offers a keyholding service for the security of retail establishments and offices in the area served, which includes 200 municipalities in Piedmont and Lombardy in addition to 120 municipalities in Emilia Romagna, in particular in the provinces of Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Milan, Varese, Monza Brianza and Novara, Como.
The keyholding service is a complex, integrated procedure involving both the Security Guards and the 24/7 Operations Centres (based in Bologna and Busto Arsizio). The latter have complete control over the safe supplied to each patrol in the area, in which the keys to the premises covered by the security service are kept.