Segurma alarms in Almería
An alarm for your flat, your villa or your apartment on the coast.
Almería at a glance
A flat in the Zapillo or Nueva Andalucía that sits empty from eight to three, a villa in Aguadulce, La Envía, Huércal de Almería or Viator, an apartment in Roquetas, Vera Playa, Mojácar or San Juan de los Terreros belonging to a family from Madrid or a British owner, a cortijo in the Poniente, the Valle del Almanzora or Níjar: in Almería the Segurma alarm is set up differently in each case, and its Alarm Receiving Centre alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil depending on the municipality. Here we explain it area by area.
Province of Almería and neighbouring provinces · capital: Almería. Base map: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0).
- Who receives the alert
- The National Police or the Guardia Civil, depending on the municipality. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre has it on record for your address and sends the alert with the video of the intrusion.
- Region
- Andalusia · capital Almería
- Areas covered in detail
- 8 comarcas and 48 towns mentioned on this page; Segurma installs across the whole province.
- Usual lead time
- Segurma technician within 24-48 h in Almería and the surrounding area; elsewhere the date is confirmed in the survey.
- Price
- €24.90 a month for the first year, the same as everywhere in Spain; then €43.90 or €49.90 a month.
- Neighbouring provinces
What happens in Almería when your alarm goes off
In the province of Almería, public safety is the job of the National Police in the cities that have a police station (Almería, El Ejido and Roquetas de Mar) and of the Guardia Civil everywhere else: Níjar, Vícar, Adra, Berja, Huércal de Almería, Viator, Huércal-Overa, Vera, Mojácar, Garrucha, Carboneras, Cuevas del Almanzora, Pulpí, Albox, Olula, Tabernas, Vélez-Rubio and all the villages. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) has on record, for every home, which of the two forces is responsible; in the city, El Ejido and Roquetas the local police also receive alerts and patrol.
The sequence is always the same. A camera detector picks up movement in the living room while the system is armed, or a magnetic sensor notices that the patio sliding door is opening. The control panel sends the signal to the ARC, together with a few images of that moment and the audio from the room. An operator reviews them. If it is the person who looks after the villa and they came in with their tag, nothing happens; if it is someone who should not be there, the alarm is confirmed as real and the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil and passes on those images. You get the notification in the app at that very moment, whether you are in Almería, Madrid or the UK, and you can watch the cameras live.
The call is made by Segurma, an authorised security company registered in the National Private Security Register under number 3082. It is an alert verified with images: for the Guardia Civil post in Vera, Mojácar or Níjar, with thousands of homes shut up in the low season and long distances to cover, that is the difference between a suspicion and a fact.
Cortijos without fibre, owners abroad and empty urbanisations
Many cortijos (farmhouses) and country houses in the Poniente, the Almanzora and Níjar have no fibre, and thousands of homes in the Levante belong to owners who live in the UK, Belgium or northern Spain. The control panel has its own battery and communicates over your home line and over 4G/5G: if one route fails, the other keeps the link to the ARC open. The app works from any country.
Where Segurma installs in Almería province
Across the whole province, from Adra to Pulpí and from the coast up to Los Vélez. These are the areas and the kind of home we usually come across in each one.
Almería city
Flats in the Centro, the Zapillo, Nueva Andalucía, Ciudad Jardín, Los Ángeles, Oliveros, Altamira, Cortijo Grande, Nueva Almería, the Vega de Acá and El Toyo, with plenty of ground-floor and first-floor flats facing the street; villas in La Cañada, Costacabana, Retamar, El Toyo, Cabo de Gata and the urbanisations along the Níjar road. In a flat you protect the door, any reachable window and the hallway; in a villa, the perimeter.
Metropolitan area: Huércal de Almería, Viator, Benahadux, Pechina, Gádor and Rioja
Townhouses and villas in Huércal, Viator and the urbanisations of the lower Andarax, flats in the town centres and country houses. Homes that stand empty during working hours, with a plot the intruder crosses before touching the house.
Poniente: El Ejido, Roquetas de Mar, Aguadulce, Vícar, La Mojonera, Adra, Berja, Dalías and Balanegra
Flats in El Ejido and Roquetas (both with National Police stations), seasonal apartments in Roquetas, Aguadulce, Almerimar and Balerma, villas in La Envía and the urbanisations of Aguadulce, and cortijos among the greenhouses. Vícar, Adra, Berja and the rest alert the Guardia Civil.
Níjar and Cabo de Gata: San José, Las Negras, Agua Amarga, Rodalquilar, Campohermoso and San Isidro
Holiday homes and holiday lets in the natural park, scattered cortijos and village houses. An area with little passing traffic in winter and a long way to the Guardia Civil post.
Levante: Vera, Vera Playa, Garrucha, Mojácar, Mojácar Playa, Turre, Los Gallardos, Carboneras, Cuevas del Almanzora, Palomares and Villaricos
The province's biggest concentration of foreign owners: apartments and villas in Mojácar, Vera Playa, Garrucha and Villaricos, urbanisations in Turre and Los Gallardos, and houses shut for half the year. The whole of the Levante alerts the Guardia Civil.
Pulpí and San Juan de los Terreros, Huércal-Overa, Zurgena and Arboleas
Seasonal apartments in San Juan de los Terreros belonging to families from Madrid and Murcia, villas with British owners in Zurgena, Arboleas and Albox, and flats and houses in Huércal-Overa.
Valle del Almanzora: Albox, Olula del Río, Macael, Cantoria, Fines, Purchena, Serón and Tíjola
Village houses, cortijos restored by British owners and scattered homes between the marble quarries and the market gardens, with many houses shut up and the Guardia Civil post some distance away.
Inland: Tabernas, Sorbas, Los Vélez (Vélez-Rubio, Vélez-Blanco, María), Alhama de Almería, Laujar and the Alpujarra of Almería
Village houses with a yard, cortijos and rural houses, many of them second homes, with long distances and power cuts.
Even if your municipality is not on the list, Segurma installs there all the same: the whole province is inside its service area. We confirm the lead time for your postcode in the survey.
How burglars get into homes in Almería, and what stops them
Home burglaries are almost always done when the house is empty, in minutes, through the easiest way in. In Almería that way in changes a lot between a flat in the Zapillo, a villa in Aguadulce and a cortijo in the Almanzora.
Flat in Almería, El Ejido, Roquetas or Huércal-Overa
The front door (old locks slipped open with a card or bumped, or forced on a landing with no neighbours about), windows and terraces of ground-floor and first-floor flats reached from the street or from a commercial unit, and penthouses reached from the roof terrace. A magnetic sensor on the door raises the alert at the first attempt; a camera detector in the hallway captures whoever comes in; in a block of flats the indoor siren makes the intruder leave.
Villa in Aguadulce, La Envía, Retamar, Mojácar or Vera Playa
The intruder gets onto the plot over the back wall, checks from the garden whether anyone is in and goes for the living-room sliding door, a ground-floor window or the garage. Sliding doors are the number one way in. The outdoor detector picks him up on the plot; the IP camera with audio in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus lets you see him from your phone; the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil while he is still outside.
Holiday apartment in Roquetas, Almerimar, Vera Playa, Mojácar or San Juan de los Terreros
The terrace sliding door in ground-floor and first-floor flats, and the front door in buildings that are half empty in winter. Magnetic sensor on the door and on the sliding door, camera detector in the living room and an IP camera to look at the apartment from home.
Cortijo or country house in the Poniente, Níjar, the Almanzora or Los Vélez
Several ways in (main door, porch, garage, tool shed), a large plot and no neighbour in sight. Sensors on every access point, camera detectors on the route an intruder has to take, and an outdoor detector. The control panel with battery and 4G/5G keeps the link to the ARC even if the power goes off or there is no fibre.
When it happens
August and the Feria in the city; winter in the apartments and villas on the coast, shut from October to May; long weekends in the cortijos; and weekends in the flats of El Ejido and Roquetas when people go off to the beach or back to the village. With the alarm armed and connected, those days stop being any different.
Anti-squatter alarm in Almería: closed-up villas, cortijos and inherited flats
Almería is one of the provinces where most people ask us about squatting, because of the amount of housing that spends months empty: villas in the Levante owned by people who live in the UK or Belgium, apartments on the coast out of season, cortijos in the Almanzora and Níjar, and inherited flats in the city, El Ejido or Roquetas. They are exactly the houses where a squat takes weeks to be discovered.
If the break-in is detected as it happens, with images of someone forcing the sliding door, the National Police or the Guardia Civil can act on a crime in progress. If you find out when you arrive at Easter, what is left is a court case. The whole value of an anti-squatter alarm lies in that first minute.
What the system does in an empty house
- The magnetic sensors on doors, windows and sliding doors raise the alert at the first attempt to open them, not once the intruder has already changed the lock.
- The camera detector captures images of the person coming in and sends them to the ARC; an operator verifies them and alerts the police with the images attached.
- The deterrent sign and the siren stop the villa or flat from looking abandoned, which is the first thing anyone choosing a home to squat looks for.
- With the IP camera in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look at the house from your phone, whether you are in Almería, Madrid or London.
The legal side, in brief
In legal terms, entering a home that is a dwelling (including a holiday home that is in use) is breaking and entering (allanamiento de morada), and entering a property that is not a dwelling is usurpation (usurpación). Both offences have been dealt with by fast-track trial since April 2025. The difference that matters is a different one: an intrusion detected and verified at the time allows immediate action; a squat that has already taken hold is settled in court. If you are in that second situation, speak to a lawyer; this page is not legal advice.
More detail, with the full protocol, on the Segurma anti-squatter alarm page.
Holiday homes in the Levante and the Poniente of Almería
Roquetas, Aguadulce, Almerimar, El Toyo, Retamar, San José, Agua Amarga, Carboneras, Mojácar, Garrucha, Vera Playa, Villaricos, San Juan de los Terreros: the Almería coast is the beach for Madrid, Murcia, Granada and thousands of British families, with homes that open up in summer and on long weekends and stay shut the rest of the year, in urbanisations and buildings where hardly anyone lives in January.
What a home like that needs is not a siren, which nobody hears in an urbanisation that is empty in February, but someone who checks what is going on and alerts the Guardia Civil or the National Police, plus the ability to look at the house yourself from your phone. The Kit Tranquilidad covers the first part; the Kit Tranquilidad Plus adds the IP camera with audio for the second. In villas with a garden, the sensors on the sliding doors and the outdoor detector raise the alert before anyone touches the house.
The system is wireless and needs no building work, so there is no need to ask the community of owners for permission or to touch the house. It communicates over 4G/5G as well as over your home line, so you do not need to sign up for fibre at the holiday home. If you would rather deal with us in English, tell us in the survey.
Everything that changes when the house sits empty for months: alarm for holiday homes.
Which kit for each home in the province
The final kit is decided in the survey; these are the combinations that come up most often in Almería. Tap your type of home to see which kit it needs and what it includes.
Flat in Almería, El Ejido, Roquetas or Huércal-Overa
Kit Tranquilidad: control panel, keypad, indoor siren, two camera detectors (hallway and living room), magnetic sensor on the door, key fob remote and tags. In ground-floor flats, first-floor flats and penthouses, magnetic sensors on reachable terraces and windows as well.
Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
Camera detector
Magnetic sensors
Indoor siren
Keypad
Villa in Mojácar, Vera Playa, Aguadulce, La Envía or Retamar
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with IP camera to see the garden and the entrance from your phone, and an outdoor detector for the plot. Sensors on the living-room sliding doors, on the garage door if it connects to the house and on the doors that open onto the garden.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
Outdoor detector
IP camera with audio- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Townhouse in Huércal de Almería, Viator, Roquetas or El Ejido
Kit Tranquilidad with sensors on the front door, the patio sliding door and the garage, and a camera detector in the living room. If the patio opens onto a communal area or open country, an outdoor detector.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Beach apartment in Roquetas, Almerimar, Vera Playa or San Juan de los Terreros
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with IP camera, which is the reason to choose it; magnetic sensor on the door and on the terrace sliding door if it can be reached. Out of season, what you want is to look at the apartment and have the ARC check every alert.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Magnetic sensors
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Cortijo or country house in the Almanzora, Níjar, the Poniente or Los Vélez
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with outdoor detector and sensors on every access point: any entry is detected in the first minute and you can look at the cortijo from your phone. Control panel with battery and 4G/5G; the Guardia Civil gets a verified alert.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Shop or business in Almería or the Poniente
For a shop, a bar, a pharmacy, an office, a warehouse or a farm the set-up changes (IP camera with audio, panic button, arming schedules) and VAT is not included in the monthly fee. It is all explained in alarms for businesses.
Typical situations in Almería
From the survey calls in the province come these three typical cases, described in general terms so you can see whether yours is similar.
The villa in Mojácar, Turre or Zurgena with a British owner
Shut for six months a year, with a garden, a pool and sliding doors. Outdoor detector, sensors on every sliding door and door, IP camera to look at it from back home; the ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil with the images.
The apartment in Roquetas, Vera Playa or San Juan de los Terreros belonging to a family from Madrid or Granada
Opened up in July and at Easter; the rest of the year, a half-empty building. Sensor on the door and on the sliding door, camera detector in the living room, Kit Plus to look at it from home. No fibre: the control panel communicates over 4G/5G.
The family cortijo in the Almanzora or Níjar
Several ways in, no neighbour in sight, no fibre. Sensors on every access point, outdoor detector, control panel with 4G/5G and battery; the Guardia Civil gets a verified alert, not a suspicion.
Common mistakes when protecting a home in Almería
When we do the survey in the province we run into the same mistakes again and again. These are the most common.
- Forgetting the sliding doors. In the villas and apartments on the coast the living-room sliding door is the number one way in. A magnetic sensor on each one.
- Relying on the urbanisation's gatehouse. In La Envía, Marina Golf, Valle del Este or Desert Springs the security at the entrance controls the cars; it does not see whoever jumps over the back wall of your plot. The connected alarm is the inner layer.
- Leaving the cortijo with nothing because “there is no internet”. The control panel communicates over 4G/5G and has a battery: in Níjar, the Almanzora, Tabernas or Los Vélez it works without fibre and rides out the power cuts.
- A stand-alone camera instead of an ARC. It shows you the burglary after the event from back home; nobody checks it or calls the police. What counts is an operator looking at the images at the time and alerting the police with them.
- Waiting until Easter to see how the apartment is. A shut-up home with no sign and no alarm is the perfect candidate for a squat which, by the time you discover it, is already a matter for the courts.
- Not mentioning the dog. If the detector is not positioned with the pet in mind, false alarms end with the system switched off; in the survey it is placed so the animal does not trigger it.
What works
Covering the real ways into your home (sliding doors and plot included), having the alarm connected to an ARC that verifies before alerting, the indoor siren so the intruder leaves, and the app so you know straight away from any country. In a province with so many homes shut up in winter and so many isolated cortijos, that combination is what stops a burglary or a squat from going through.
Price of the Segurma alarm in Almería
The price is the nationwide one Segurma publishes; in Almería there is no surcharge for the coast, the Poniente or the inland areas.
- Control panel connected 24/7 to Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre
- Camera detectors for verification
- Keypad, indoor siren and key fob remote
- Police alert with video and audio
- Mobile app to control everything
- Everything in Kit Tranquilidad
- IP surveillance camera with audio
- Live view from your phone
- Additional coverage detector
- Recording and visual verification
Both kits come with the control panel with battery and 4G/5G, keypad, indoor siren, deterrent sign, camera detectors, key fob remote and tags, and the app. Extra elements (outdoor detector, additional magnetic sensors for sliding doors, smoke detector, a second IP camera) are quoted in the survey with their monthly fee. The minimum contract term and the cancellation conditions are set by Segurma's contract; we give them to you in writing before you sign. Full breakdown and cost over 24 months on the Segurma prices page.
The parts of the alarm, one by one
The elements most often added in Almería: magnetic sensors, outdoor detector, ip camera with audio. Everything is decided in the survey according to your home; here is each part explained in plain language, with its fee when it is an extra.
Guide prices for add-on parts (monthly fee, VAT included). The control panel and the parts in your kit are included in the monthly fee; the system is extended to suit your home's needs after a free survey.
Installation in Almería: lead times and the visit
In Almería city, the metropolitan area and the Poniente, Segurma's technician usually installs within 24 to 48 hours of the sign-up being completed; in the Levante, the Almanzora, Níjar and Los Vélez the lead time is confirmed in the survey according to the local schedule. If the owner is not in Spain, the visit is arranged with whoever holds the keys.
We talk about your home
Flat, villa, townhouse, beach apartment or cortijo; access points and sliding doors; pets; how long it stands empty. We propose a kit in writing with the month 13 fee shown clearly.
The technician comes
One visit: control panel, detectors and siren fitted with no chasing or cabling, the system tested, and an explanation of how to arm, disarm and use the app.
You are connected
From then on the ARC receives the signals from your home day and night and has the alert to the National Police or the Guardia Civil for your municipality set up.
Segurma Alarmas, which runs this website, handles the advice, the survey and the sign-up; installation, maintenance and the Alarm Receiving Centre are provided by Segurma, the company you sign the contract with.
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Questions about the alarm in Almería
The National Police in Almería, El Ejido and Roquetas de Mar, which have police stations, and the Guardia Civil in all the other municipalities (Níjar, Vícar, Adra, Huércal de Almería, Vera, Mojácar, Garrucha, Huércal-Overa, Albox and so on). Segurma's ARC has it on record for your address and makes the call after checking with video and audio that the intrusion is real. You get the notification in the app at the same time.
The first year costs €24.90 a month (VAT, equipment and installation included). From month 13 it goes to €43.90 a month with the Kit Tranquilidad or €49.90 a month with the Kit Tranquilidad Plus. The promotion ends on 31 October. The price is the nationwide one, and extra elements are quoted in the survey.
Yes. The survey is done by phone, the installation is arranged with whoever holds the keys, and the app works from any country. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil with the images; you get the notification at the same time. If you would rather deal with us in English, tell us when you ask for the survey.
It is one of the homes where it makes most sense. Out of season nobody is going to notice a break-in; with the alarm connected, any opening or movement reaches Segurma's ARC, which checks it and alerts the Guardia Civil if there is someone inside. With the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look at the apartment from Madrid on your phone. You do not need fibre: the control panel communicates over 4G/5G.
It works by detecting the entry at the time, which is when the Guardia Civil can act on a crime in progress. Sensors on every access point, outdoor detector on the plot, camera detector on the route an intruder has to take, and a deterrent sign; Segurma's ARC verifies the images before making the call. A squat discovered weeks later is already a matter for the courts; the alarm is there so you never get to that point.
Yes. The control panel has a built-in 4G/5G line and its own battery, so it works without fibre and stays connected to Segurma's ARC if the power goes off. In the survey we check the mobile coverage in your area; it is the usual set-up in Níjar, the Almanzora, Tabernas and Los Vélez.
Yes. The equipment is wireless, goes in without building work and comes out without leaving any marks worth mentioning, so there is no need to alter anything or change the door. It is a courtesy to let the landlord know. You sign the contract with Segurma yourself as the user of the service.
Segurma is a national security company based in Loiu (Bizkaia), with its own Alarm Receiving Centre and technicians who install across the whole province of Almería. Segurma Alarmas, which runs this website, sells its systems: we advise you, do the survey and arrange the sign-up; the service and the contract are with Segurma.
Nearby provinces
If your home is in a neighbouring province, it has its own page with the police protocol and the areas covered there. The provinces with an English page are listed under Segurma alarms by province; the rest are in Spanish.
Tell us about your home in Almería and we tell you what it needs
A call of a few minutes, a kit proposed in writing and you decide at your own pace. Equipment and installation included in the monthly fee.