CCTV and Alarm Installation in Donaghadee
CCTV, intruder alarms and access control in Donaghadee, for harbour-front bars and cafes, boat stores and the houses that sit empty between visits.
What the Donaghadee pattern means for your property
Donaghadee has two populations. There is the one that lives here all year and commutes along the coast to Bangor and Belfast, and there is the one that arrives for a weekend, a season or a day out at the harbour. Recorded crime in a town like this follows visitors and trade as much as it follows residents.
For licensed premises on the front that means good coverage of the door, the bar, the beer garden and the cellar hatch, with footage you can actually use when something is disputed. For a house that is only lived in part of the time it means detection that reports to your phone wherever you are, so an open door is something you find out about that evening rather than on your next trip down.
The full Donaghadee crime report has the monthly trend, a map of recorded locations and comparisons with nearby towns.
Donaghadee 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 Donaghadee
34 in the same month last year
August 2025
Most recorded categories
Bars show each share of the monthly total.
- Anti-Social Behaviour11
- Violence & Sexual Offences9
- Criminal Damage & Arson3
- Other Theft2
- All other categories2
Check the latest official crime statistics for your home address or business location.
Check a specific postcodeSecurity for Donaghadee harbour businesses and homes
The commercial heart of Donaghadee is the strip around the harbour and up through Shore Street, New Street, High Street and Manor Street: bars, restaurants, cafes, takeaways and small shops, plus the sailing club, the boat operators and the stores and compounds that go with them. Licensed premises carry a particular list: late finishes, cash handling, cellar access, outside seating and deliveries that arrive before anybody is in.
Away from the front, the housing runs from terraces near the town out to newer estates and bungalows towards Millisle and Carrowdore. If your house here is only used at weekends, or you let it out over the summer, we build the system around remote checking: entry control you can manage without handing a key to anybody, detection that reports the moment it happens, and cameras at the door and the parking so you can see who called.
What we install in Donaghadee
CCTV installation
Camera systems for bars, restaurants, shops, boat stores and houses, viewable on your phone. On the harbour front we specify housings and fixings that handle salt and gales, and we position cameras to get usable faces at the door and a clear view of outside seating without staring at the neighbours.
More on CCTV installation.
Intruder alarms
Wired and wireless intruder alarms with app control. A licensed premises gets zoning so the cellar, the stock room and the upstairs can be set while the bar is still trading, and panic facilities where staff want them. A part-time home gets a straightforward setup you can arm from the car on the way out.
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Access control and door entry
Keypad, fob and app-controlled entry for bars, kitchens, stock rooms, clubhouses, stores and apartment blocks. You can give each member of staff their own fob, see which one opened the cellar or the till area, and remove somebody from the system the day they leave, without changing a single lock.
More on access control.
Fire alarms and emergency lighting
Fire alarm systems and emergency lighting for bars, restaurants, guest accommodation, shops and flats in Donaghadee. Premises with a kitchen, a cellar, upstairs seating and a single stair need the detection and the escape lighting planned together, and we test and log the system on a routine schedule so it is ready when you need it.
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Monitoring and maintenance
CCTV can be monitored through 24-hour NI CCTV Monitoring from Advanced Overwatch, and intruder and fire alarm monitoring is provided through our monitoring partner’s NSI Gold certified Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC).
We maintain what we install on a planned schedule and can take over a system fitted by somebody else. Hospitality sites get visits timed around service, not during it. On exposed harbour positions we check housings, seals and brackets for salt damage, and we handle what we can by remote diagnosis before travelling.
More on security system monitoring and maintenance and servicing.
Certified, audited and independent
Independently certified and answerable only to our customers, no franchise, no head-office script, one local Coleraine team.
- 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.
CCTV and alarms in Donaghadee, your questions answered
What CCTV suits a bar on the Donaghadee seafront?
Coverage of the entrance, the bar, the till, any outside seating and the cellar access, with enough image quality to identify someone at the door rather than just notice them. Recording is retained long enough to deal with a claim raised days later, and we specify external units for the weather coming off the water.
How do I check on a Donaghadee house I am not living in?
Through your phone. The alarm reports to the app the moment a detector or a door contact operates, so you learn about it straight away instead of on your next visit, and cameras let you look at the door, the drive and the garden whenever you want. Entry control lets you give a tradesman access without leaving a key out.
Can you secure a boat store or compound near the harbour?
Yes. A compound is covered at the gate first, with a camera that gives plates and faces on the way in, then detection inside the store for engines, outboards, tools and gear. Access runs on fobs or codes rather than a padlock key that has been copied over the years, and alerts can go to more than one person.
Can CCTV help settle a dispute outside a Donaghadee bar?
Often, yes, provided the camera was specified for it. A wide view of a busy pavement is of little use at night, so we fit a camera that gives identifiable images at the doorway at the hours that matter, keep the clock accurate, and set recording retention long enough that footage is still there when somebody asks for it.
Which areas around Donaghadee do you cover?
We cover Donaghadee and the surrounding villages and townlands, including Millisle, Carrowdore, Ballyvester, Groomsport, Six Road Ends and out towards Ballywalter, as well as Bangor and Newtownards. Homes, holiday lets, bars, shops and marine businesses are all handled by one team working across Northern Ireland from Coleraine.
Our services in Donaghadee
One team for every service in Donaghadee: installation, 24-hour monitoring and ongoing maintenance.
Security systems
Fire and life safety
Specialist services
We also cover the area around Donaghadee
Bangor, Groomsport, Millisle and Newtownards are all a few minutes along the coast or the main road, so a bar, a boat store and a house can be looked at on one visit.
Protect your Donaghadee bar, store or house
Book a free survey and we will work out what needs covering at your Donaghadee property, how you will check it when you are away, and put it in a clear written quote.
Thousands of premises secured since 2017