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CCTV and Alarm Installation in Garvagh

CCTV, intruder alarms, access control and fire systems for Garvagh homes, farms, sheds and shops, from the main street units out to holdings down the lanes towards Ballerin and Aghadowey.

Local crime intelligence

What the Garvagh figures miss about rural property

Garvagh is a village with a very large rural parish behind it, and much of the property around it sits out in that parish rather than on the street. Recorded crime in a place this size tells you little about any one lane. What tells you more is distance: how long it would take anybody at all to notice something at your yard gate.

Distance changes what a system has to do. An audible alarm needs somebody within earshot, and on a holding between Garvagh and Ringsend there is nobody, so the work falls to detection that reaches your phone and cameras that record a usable image of whoever came up the lane. It changes the order of fitting too: the gate, the shed and the fuel tank come first, and the front door of the house comes after them.

The full Garvagh crime report has the monthly trend, a map of recorded locations and comparisons with nearby towns.

Garvagh crime at a glance

Within 1 mile of the town centre. Includes anti-social behaviour.

Latest published monthAugust 2026
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Recorded incidents in Garvagh

10

8 in the same month last year
August 2025

Crime is up
Last 12 reported months
Monthly recorded incidents near GarvaghZero-based scale from 0 to 20. Sep 2025: 10 incidents; Oct 2025: 9 incidents; Nov 2025: 15 incidents; Dec 2025: 4 incidents; Jan 2026: 11 incidents; Feb 2026: 6 incidents; Mar 2026: 9 incidents; Apr 2026: 8 incidents; May 2026: 12 incidents; Jun 2026: 5 incidents; Jul 2026: 11 incidents; Aug 2026: 10 incidents.200
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Most recorded categories

Bars show each share of the monthly total.

  1. Anti-Social Behaviour2
  2. Drugs2
  3. Violence & Sexual Offences2
  4. Burglary1
  5. All other categories3

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Security for Garvagh houses, sheds and forest edge sites

Garvagh runs along one broad main street with its stone clock tower, a short row of shops, and the forest car park off the top of it. Village premises tend to be small and many have living accommodation attached, so we zone the alarm rather than treating the whole building as one box, and we cover the shopfront, the back store and the yard where deliveries arrive from the Bridge Street side.

Most of the work here, though, is out the roads. Houses sit on their own sites with a shed, an oil tank and a few hundred yards of lane, and farms keep machinery and fuel well away from the dwelling. Woodland along the western edge of the village brings cover right up to some boundaries, which affects where detection is worth placing and which way a camera should face. We settle that on the ground with you, not off a map.

Our services

What we install in Garvagh

CCTV installation

Camera systems for houses, yards and village premises, viewable on your phone. The questions at a Garvagh survey are usually how far the lane runs, where the nearest power is, and whether the broadband at the house will ever reach the far shed. Mobile connected and solar powered cameras answer most of that, sized for winter light before anything is fitted.

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Wired and wireless intruder alarms, with wireless usually the sensible choice in an older farmhouse or a converted outbuilding. Sheds and a workshop can go on the same panel as the house, with zones arranged so the outbuildings stay armed through the day while people come and go from the kitchen door.

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Keypad, fob and app controlled entry for yard gates, workshops, stores and village premises, plus door entry where a flat sits over a shop. On a holding with contractors and relief workers passing through, codes are issued and withdrawn from your phone, with no locks re-keyed and no spare sets handed round.

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Fire alarm systems and emergency lighting for shops, workshops, stores and rented houses around Garvagh, designed for the layout of the building and the way people would actually get out of it. Routine testing keeps it dependable, which counts for most in a building where everyone is asleep when the detection does its work.

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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 service what we install on a planned schedule, and we can take over a system another installer left behind. For sites out the country roads we interrogate the equipment remotely first where it allows that, so a fault is often identified, and sometimes cleared, without anybody driving back up the A29.

More on security system monitoring and maintenance and servicing.

Certified, audited and independent

One Coleraine team, independently certified, answerable only to our customers. No franchise and no head-office script.

Advanced Overwatch is SSAIB certificated (NIRE127) specifically for Intruder Alarm Systems, Visual Surveillance Systems (VSS) and Access Control Systems.

CCTV and alarms in Garvagh, your questions answered

Start at the gate. A detector or camera on the lane gives you notice while somebody is still a field away from the house, which is worth more than anything fitted at the front door. From there we take in the yard, the shed and the oil tank, with alerts to your phone and recording retained long enough to be useful afterwards.

Yes. Solar powered, battery backed cameras on a mobile connection will watch a shed or a field gate that has neither a cable nor a usable signal from the house. We size the panel and the battery for the position and the shorter winter days, and we test the mobile signal standing at the spot before specifying anything.

They need not. Sites near the forest edge and the trail car parks see plenty of harmless movement, so the detection area is drawn onto your boundary, your yard and your doors instead of the path and the road. Sensitivity is tuned on site, and we come back and adjust it if anything proves jumpy in use.

Cameras on the shopfront, the counter and the rear store, an intruder alarm zoned so the stockroom stays protected during opening hours, and entry control on the back door if staff use it. Where there is accommodation above the shop it joins the same system with a zone of its own. The detail is settled at survey.

We work through Ballerin, Glenullin, Ringsend, Macosquin and Aghadowey, down the A29 towards Swatragh, across to Kilrea, and out the side roads in between. Coleraine is a short run back up the same road, so a farm, a house and a village unit can all be seen on the one journey.

Nearby coverage

We also cover the area around Garvagh

Coleraine sits eleven miles up the A29, with Kilrea and Swatragh the other direction and Ballymoney across to the east, so property on either side of Garvagh falls on roads we drive most weeks.

Secure your Garvagh home, shed or shop

Book a free survey and we will walk the lane, the yard and the buildings with you, then set out exactly what we would fit, in a clear written quote.

Thousands of premises secured since 2017