Burglar Alarm Installation Coleraine
SSAIB certificated burglar and intruder alarm systems for homes and businesses in Coleraine, installed and maintained by one local Northern Ireland team.
Burglary in Coleraine, what the long record actually shows
Most alarm sales copy leans on fear. The record for this town does not support it, and we would rather you saw the real numbers before deciding what you need.
Our Crime in My Area page for Coleraine carries the NISRA recorded crime series for the whole town, summed from the eight electoral wards that cover Coleraine. Burglary across the town has fallen a long way over the series: 372 offences in 2001/02, 132 in 2015/16, 39 in 2024/25 and 28 in 2025/26. All recorded crime across the town, by contrast, was 1,872 offences in 2025/26, up 10.5 per cent on the year and up 1.5 per cent on 2015/16, so the fall is specific to burglary rather than a general improvement.
The council area tables on the same page add the part that matters if you run a business. In Causeway Coast and Glens in 2025/26, residential burglary fell 17.0 per cent to 112 offences, but burglary at business and community premises rose 20.6 per cent to 41, and vehicle offences rose 80.6 per cent to 177. Residents surveyed in 2023/24 for the Northern Ireland Safe Community Telephone Survey put worry about burglary at 6 per cent, below the Northern Ireland average of 8 per cent.
Read plainly: a Coleraine house is far less likely to be burgled than it was a decade ago, while business premises and vehicles are moving the other way. That should change what you spend money on, and it is the conversation we have at survey.
Source: NISRA recorded crime tables and PSNI figures, both quoted on our Coleraine crime page, containing public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Detection, signalling, and somebody who actually acts
An alarm is three separate things, and people usually buy the first one and assume the other two.
Detection is what notices. Contacts on doors and accessible windows, movement detection inside, shock or vibration sensing where forced entry is the risk, and external detection where the approach matters more than the door.
Signalling is how anybody finds out. A bell only system tells whoever is within earshot. A monitored system reports to an alarm receiving centre over broadband, mobile or both. On a property where nobody is within earshot, a louder sounder is not the upgrade. The signalling is.
Response is what then happens. The centre verifies the signal and contacts keyholders or, where the system is configured and registered for it, the police. Police response in Northern Ireland depends on the system meeting the required standard and on false alarm performance, which is why commissioning and annual servicing are part of the same job.
If you would rather not be the person driving to a premises at three in the morning, that is what keyholding and vacant property is for, and 24/7 alarm and CCTV monitoring covers the watching side.
Grades under BS EN 50131, and the grade your insurer names
Intruder alarms are graded by the level of intruder the system is designed to resist, under BS EN 50131 with PD 6662 as the application guide. Grade 2 suits most homes and lower risk small premises. Grade 3 is the usual expectation for commercial premises, retail holding stock or cash overnight and higher value residential. Grade 4 is specialist.
The grade is not decoration. It changes the detection specification, the tamper protection, the standby power and the signalling. If an insurer or a lease names a grade, the certificate we issue on completion is the document that proves what was installed. Certificated installation can support insurance compliance and may be a condition of cover under some policies, so read your own policy wording rather than taking anyone’s word for it.
We do not quote a grade over the phone. It comes out of the survey, and the price is a fixed quote after that free survey.
Student lets and shared houses near the campus
The Ulster University campus on the Cromore Road gives Coleraine a large stock of shared houses through the Portstewart Road, Mountsandel Road and the streets around them, and a shared house is a genuinely awkward alarm job.
The problem is not detection. It is who can set and unset the system, and what happens in September when the tenants change. A shared code that has been passed round three intakes is not a code, and a system four people are afraid of setting off is a system nobody sets.
What usually works is individual user codes rather than one house code, so a code can be removed when a tenant leaves without changing it for everybody, and an event log that shows which code was used and when. Where a landlord is not on site, monitored signalling matters more than the sounder, because the person who needs to know is not in the house.
Where the same landlord wants controlled entry as well as detection, access control in Coleraine covers the doors.
Farms and outbuildings on the roads out of town
Out toward Macosquin, Articlave, Garvagh and the Bann valley the valuables are rarely in the house. They are quads, tools, batteries, fuel, GPS units and machinery, sitting in a shed well away from anyone who might hear a bell.
On properties like that we normally detect at the outbuildings rather than only at the dwelling, site external sounders where they can be heard from a road rather than where the cable is convenient, and cover the approach on a long lane, because a detector at the shed door triggers when somebody is already at the machinery. Where trenching cable between buildings would be disproportionate we use wireless devices or radio links, and we prove the signal strength at survey rather than assume it from a farm plan.
Holiday homes and property that sits empty
Coleraine sits ten minutes from Portstewart and Portrush, and a large amount of property in the area is empty for long stretches: second homes, seasonal lets, and business units that shut down over the winter.
An unmonitored bell on an empty house on a quiet road achieves very little. The parts that earn their place are monitored signalling, so an activation reaches somebody whether or not you are in the county, individual codes for cleaners and changeovers, and a keyholding arrangement so somebody attends and you are not asking a neighbour to walk into a building.
If the property is let out, the same rule as the student houses applies: a code shared with everybody is a code that protects nobody.
How your alarm fits with the rest of the system
An alarm tells you something happened. It does not show you what, and it does not decide who was allowed in. On most Coleraine properties it works alongside the other two, and the matching pages are CCTV installation in Coleraine and access control in Coleraine.
Full detail of the service itself is on our burglar and intruder alarm page. The nearest sibling town pages are burglar alarms in Ballymena and burglar alarms in Magherafelt, and the coverage map lists everywhere else.
Certified, audited and independent
Independent certification, one Coleraine team, and no franchise or head-office script between you and the people doing the work.
- Est. 2017
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 27001
- ISO 45001
Advanced Overwatch is SSAIB certificated (NIRE127) specifically for Intruder Alarm Systems, Visual Surveillance Systems (VSS) and Access Control Systems.
Coleraine crime at a glance
Within 1 mile of the town centre. Includes anti-social behaviour.
August 2026 is the latest official dataset published.
August 2026Recorded incidents in Coleraine
205 in the same month last year
August 2025
Most recorded categories
Bars show each share of the monthly total.
- Anti-Social Behaviour86
- Violence & Sexual Offences55
- Criminal Damage & Arson19
- Shoplifting19
- All other categories28
Check the latest official crime statistics for your home address or business location.
Check a specific postcodeBurglar And Intruder Alarm security in Coleraine, your questions
Do you install burglar and intruder alarm systems in Coleraine?
Yes. Coleraine is our home town, Advanced Overwatch is based here, at Beresford House, and designs, installs and maintains burglar and intruder alarm systems for homes and businesses across Coleraine and the whole of Northern Ireland. One local team.
Are your Coleraine installations SSAIB certificated?
Yes. Advanced Overwatch is SSAIB certificated (NIRE127) specifically for Intruder Alarm Systems, Visual Surveillance Systems (VSS) and Access Control Systems. This means every system we fit in Coleraine is installed and maintained to recognised industry standards.
Where in Coleraine are you based?
Our office is at 1st Floor, Beresford House, 2 Beresford Road, Coleraine BT52 1GE. Being based in Coleraine, we are right on your doorstep, call 028 7087 8077 or book a free survey.
How much does a burglar and intruder alarm system cost in Coleraine?
Each Coleraine quote is built from that property’s survey, because the layout and the risk differ from one building to the next. A free survey means the recommendation is based on the building itself, and you are under no obligation.
We let a house to students near the campus. Can each tenant have their own code?
Yes, and on a shared house it is the setting that matters most. Individual user codes mean a code can be removed when a tenant leaves without changing it for everybody, and the event log shows which code set or unset the system and when. Where the landlord is not on site, monitored signalling matters more than the sounder.
Our insurer has asked for a certificated alarm. Can you provide that?
Yes. Intruder alarms are inside our SSAIB certification, registration NIRE127, and we issue a certificate on completion recording the grade and the standard the system was installed to. Insurers set their own terms, so tell us the grade your policy names before the survey and we will design to it.
Will you service an alarm another company installed?
Usually, yes. We survey the existing system first and tell you plainly whether it is worth maintaining, upgrading or replacing. If the panel is obsolete and spares are no longer made we will say so.
Our services in Coleraine
We cover the full range of security and fire safety work in Coleraine, from a single camera to a monitored multi-site system.
Security systems
Fire and life safety
Specialist services
We also cover the area around Coleraine
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Protect your Coleraine property with one local team
The free survey comes first, with no obligation. From what we find we design the burglar and intruder alarm system for your Coleraine home or business, installed and maintained by our own engineers.
Thousands of premises secured since 2017