Segurma alarms in Cádiz
An alarm for your flat, your villa on the Bahía or your house on the coast.
Cádiz at a glance
A flat in Cádiz or Jerez that stands empty from nine to seven, a villa in Vistahermosa or in the pagos of Chiclana that is used in summer, an apartment in Rota, Chipiona, Conil or Zahara owned by a family from Seville or Madrid, a villa in Sotogrande, a village house in the Sierra: in Cádiz 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 comarca by comarca.
Province of Cádiz and neighbouring provinces · capital: Cádiz. 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 Cádiz
- Areas covered in detail
- 8 comarcas and 28 towns mentioned on this page; Segurma installs across the whole province.
- Usual lead time
- Segurma technician within 24-48 h in Cádiz 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 Cádiz when your alarm goes off
In the province of Cádiz, public safety is handled by the National Police in the cities with a police station (Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, Algeciras, San Fernando, El Puerto de Santa María, La Línea, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Puerto Real) and by the Guardia Civil everywhere else: Chiclana, Rota, Chipiona, Conil, Vejer, Barbate, Tarifa, San Roque, Los Barrios, Arcos, Villamartín, Ubrique, Medina Sidonia and all the villages. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) has on record, for every home, which of the two forces is responsible; the local police back them up in almost every municipality.
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 the porch sliding door opening. The alarm panel sends the ARC the signal, a few images of that moment and the audio from the room. An operator reviews them. If it is your brother-in-law popping in for the surfboard, nothing happens; if there is someone who should not be there, the alarm is confirmed as real and the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil with those images. You get the notification in the app at that moment and can watch the cameras live.
The alert 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 Chiclana, which covers thousands of houses scattered across the pagos (the rural districts), or for the one in Conil in January, that is the difference between a suspicion and a fact.
The levante wind, houses without fibre and buildings empty in winter
Many houses in the pagos of Chiclana, La Janda and the Sierra have no fibre, and on the coast there are whole buildings where nobody lives in winter. The alarm 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. The detectors work just the same with the levante battering the shutters.
Where Segurma installs in Cádiz province
Across the whole province, from Sanlúcar to Sotogrande and from the Bahía to the Sierra de Grazalema. These are the comarcas (districts) and the type of home we usually find in each one.
Cádiz city
Flats: traditional casas de vecinos and old buildings in the Casco Antiguo (La Viña, Santa María, El Pópulo, San Carlos) with courtyards and interconnecting roof terraces, and blocks in Puerta Tierra (Bahía Blanca, Astilleros, Loreto, La Paz, Puntales, Cortadura) with windows onto light wells and ground floors onto the street. In a flat you protect the front door, the roof terrace, the reachable windows and the hallway.
Jerez de la Frontera and the Campiña
Flats in the Centro, La Granja, Montealto, El Portal, Chapín or the Zona Norte; village houses with a courtyard in the outlying villages and rural districts (La Barca, Guadalcacín, Nueva Jarilla, El Torno, Estella); villas on the urbanisations along the El Puerto and Sanlúcar roads; and vineyards and cortijos in the countryside. Jerez has the National Police; Arcos, Trebujena and the countryside, the Guardia Civil.
Bahía: San Fernando, Puerto Real and El Puerto de Santa María
Flats in San Fernando and Puerto Real, and in El Puerto the biggest concentration of villas on the Bahía: Vistahermosa, Valdelagrana, Las Redes, Fuentebravía, El Ancla, Costa Oeste, Puerto Sherry, many of them holiday homes. All three have the National Police.
Chiclana de la Frontera
Flats in the town centre and, above all, thousands of villas and houses with a plot in the pagos and the scattered rural areas (Pinar de los Franceses, La Barrosa, Novo Sancti Petri, Sancti Petri, Coto de la Campa, Las Lagunas, Pago del Humo), many of them shut from October to June. It is the part of the Bahía with the most empty homes in winter, and it is covered by the Guardia Civil.
Costa Noroeste: Sanlúcar, Chipiona, Rota and Costa Ballena
Holiday apartments and villas owned by families from Seville, Madrid and Jerez in Chipiona, Rota, Costa Ballena, Bajo de Guía and Bonanza; flats in Sanlúcar (National Police station); village houses in Trebujena. Rota and Chipiona are covered by the Guardia Civil.
La Janda: Conil, Vejer, Barbate, Zahara, El Palmar, Medina Sidonia and Benalup
Holiday apartments and houses in Conil, El Palmar, Zahora, Los Caños, Zahara de los Atunes and Barbate, village houses in Vejer and Medina, and country houses across La Janda. The whole comarca is covered by the Guardia Civil.
Campo de Gibraltar: Algeciras, La Línea, San Roque, Sotogrande, Los Barrios, Tarifa and Jimena
Flats in Algeciras and La Línea, villas in Sotogrande, La Alcaidesa, Guadiaro, Torreguadiaro and Alcaidesa Golf (many of them foreign-owned), houses in Tarifa and along its coast (Valdevaqueros, Bolonia) and country houses in Jimena and Castellar. Algeciras and La Línea have the National Police; San Roque, Los Barrios and Tarifa, the Guardia Civil.
Sierra de Cádiz: Arcos, Ubrique, Villamartín, Olvera, Grazalema, Bornos and Prado del Rey
Whitewashed village houses with a courtyard and a yard, rural houses and holiday lets, and homes beside the Arcos and Bornos reservoirs. Areas with little passing traffic in winter and some distance from the Guardia Civil post.
If your municipality is not listed, Segurma installs there too: the whole province is within the service area. In the survey we confirm the timescale by postcode.
How burglars get into homes in Cádiz and what stops them
Home burglaries almost always happen when the house is empty, in minutes, through the easiest way in. In Cádiz that way in changes a great deal between a flat in Puerta Tierra, a villa in Vistahermosa and a house in the pagos of Chiclana.
Flat in Cádiz, Jerez, San Fernando or Algeciras
The front door (old locks opened with a plastic card or by bumping, or forced on a landing with no neighbours about), windows onto inner courtyards on first and second floors that can be reached from the entrance hall or from a shop below, and the interconnecting roof terraces of the casas de vecinos in the Casco Antiguo. A magnetic sensor on the door raises the alert at the first attempt; a camera detector in the hallway captures whoever comes in; the indoor siren makes an intruder in a block of flats leave.
Villa in El Puerto, Rota, Costa Ballena or Sotogrande
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 on the coast. The outdoor detector picks them up on the plot; the IP camera with audio in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus lets you watch from your phone; the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil while they are still outside. On urbanisations with security on the gate, this is the inner layer that is missing.
House in the pagos of Chiclana or on the rural outskirts of Conil
A fenced plot, several ways in (front door, porch, carport, tool shed) and in winter not a neighbour in sight for hundreds of metres. Sensors on every access, camera detectors on the route they have to take and an outdoor detector. The panel, with its battery and 4G/5G, keeps the link to the ARC even if the power goes off or there is no fibre.
Village house in the Sierra or La Janda
Courtyard, yard and interconnecting roof terrace: the ways in that nobody sees from the street. Sensors on the front door, on the access to the roof terrace and on the yard gate, a camera detector in the entrance hall and an outdoor detector in the courtyard if it is large.
When it happens
August in Cádiz and Jerez, when the city heads for the beach; Carnival and the Feria, when the centre fills with people from out of town; winter in the coastal apartments and villas, shut from October to May; and long weekends in the houses of the Sierra. With the alarm armed and connected, those days stop being different.
Anti-squatter alarm in Cádiz: villas shut for the winter, the pagos and inherited flats
Cádiz is one of the provinces where most people ask us about squatting, because of how many homes spend the winter shut up: villas in Chiclana, Conil, Rota, Chipiona, El Puerto or Zahara owned by families from Seville and Madrid; villas in Sotogrande and La Alcaidesa with foreign owners; inherited flats in Cádiz, Jerez, San Fernando or Algeciras; village houses in the Sierra. These are exactly the homes where a squat takes weeks to be discovered.
If the entry is detected while it is happening, with images of someone forcing the sliding door, the National Police or the Guardia Civil can act on an offence in progress. If you find out when you arrive at Easter, what is left is a court case. The whole point of an anti-squatter alarm is 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.
- Whoever comes in is recorded by the camera detector; the images go to the ARC, which checks them and alerts the police with them.
- The deterrent sign and the siren stop the villa or the 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 in on the house from your phone, whether you are in Cádiz, Seville, Madrid or abroad.
The legal framework, in short
If the house is your dwelling, even a holiday home you actually use, entering it is allanamiento de morada (breaking into a dwelling); if the property is nobody's dwelling, it is usurpación (unlawful occupation). Since April 2025 both offences go through the fast-track procedure, and even so the practical difference does not go away: an entry detected and verified while it is happening can be stopped on the spot, whereas a completed squat is settled in court. For a squatting problem that already exists you need a lawyer; this page is no substitute for their advice.
More detail, with the full protocol, on the Segurma anti-squatter alarm page.
Holiday homes on the Cádiz coast
Chipiona, Rota, Costa Ballena, Valdelagrana, Vistahermosa, La Barrosa, Novo Sancti Petri, Conil, El Palmar, Zahora, Los Caños, Zahara de los Atunes, Bolonia, Sotogrande: the Cádiz coast is the beach for Seville, Madrid and half of Andalusia, with homes that open up in summer and on long weekends and close for the rest of the year, on urbanisations and in buildings where hardly anyone lives in January.
What a house like that needs is not a siren, which nobody hears on an empty urbanisation in February with the levante blowing, but someone to check what is going on and alert the Guardia Civil or the National Police, plus the ability to look in on the house from your phone. The Kit Tranquilidad covers the first; 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 they touch 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 the home line, so you do not need to take out a fibre contract for the holiday home. If you would rather handle everything in English, just say so when we do 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 Cádiz. Tap your type of home to see which kit it needs and what it includes.
Flat in Cádiz, Jerez, San Fernando or Algeciras
Kit Tranquilidad: panel, keypad, indoor siren, two camera detectors (hallway and living room), magnetic sensor on the front door, key fob remote and tags. In ground-floor flats, first-floor flats and flats with an interconnecting roof terrace, magnetic sensors on the windows and outside access points too.
Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
Camera detector
Magnetic sensors
Indoor siren
Keypad
Villa in Vistahermosa, Valdelagrana, Costa Ballena or Sotogrande
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an IP camera to see the garden and 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
Country house in the pagos of Chiclana or on the rural outskirts of Conil
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an outdoor detector and sensors on every access (front door, porch, carport, tool shed): any entry is detected in the first minute and you can look in on the house from Seville or Madrid. Panel with 4G/5G and battery.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Beach apartment in Rota, Chipiona, La Barrosa or Zahara
Kit Tranquilidad Plus for the IP camera; magnetic sensor on the front door and on the terrace sliding door if it is reachable. Out of season, what you want is to look in on 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
Village house in the Sierra or La Janda
Kit Tranquilidad with sensors on the front door, the access to the roof terrace and the yard gate, a camera detector in the entrance hall and an outdoor detector in the courtyard; Kit Plus if you want to look in from your phone. Panel with 4G/5G where the landline is poor.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Shop or business in Cádiz or on the coast
For a beach bar, a shop, a pharmacy, a bar, an office or a warehouse the set-up is different (IP camera with audio, panic button, arming schedules) and VAT is not included in the monthly fee. It is all explained on alarms for businesses.
Typical situations in Cádiz
These three cases come up again and again in survey calls from the province; we describe them in general terms so you can see whether yours fits.
The villa in La Barrosa or the pagos of Chiclana owned by a family from Seville
Shut from October to June, with a plot, a porch and sliding doors. Outdoor detector, sensors on every sliding door and door, a camera detector in the living room and an IP camera to look in from Seville; the ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil with the images.
The apartment in Rota or Chipiona owned by a family from Madrid
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, a camera detector in the living room, Kit Plus to look in from home. No fibre: the panel communicates over 4G/5G.
The inherited flat in Puerta Tierra or Jerez waiting to be sold
Empty for months. Sensors on the door and the reachable windows, a camera detector in the entrance hall and a deterrent sign on the door: if someone gets in, the ARC alerts the National Police while it is happening, not when the family turns up to show the flat.
Common mistakes when protecting a home in Cádiz
Survey calls in the province always bring the same slips to light; these are the usual ones.
- Forgetting the sliding doors and the roof terrace. In the villas on the coast the living-room sliding door is the number one way in; in the casas de vecinos of Cádiz and the villages, the roof terrace connects to the neighbour's. A magnetic sensor on each one.
- Relying on the urbanisation's gatehouse. In Sotogrande, La Alcaidesa, Costa Ballena or Novo Sancti Petri the security on the gate controls the cars; it does not see whoever climbs over the back wall of your plot. The connected alarm is the inner layer.
- Leaving the house in the pagos with nothing because 'there is no internet'. The panel communicates over 4G/5G and has a battery: in Chiclana, La Janda or the Sierra it works without fibre and rides out power cuts.
- A standalone camera instead of an Alarm Receiving Centre. It shows you the burglary after the event from Seville; 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 closed-up home with no sign and no alarm is the perfect candidate for a squat that, by the time you discover it, is already a matter for the courts.
- Not mentioning the dog. A badly placed detector ends up switched off because of false alarms; in the survey it is positioned so the pet does not set it off.
What works
Covering the real ways into your home (sliding doors, roof terrace and plot included), having the alarm connected to an Alarm Receiving Centre that verifies before alerting, the indoor siren so the intruder leaves, and the app so you know straight away wherever you are. In a province where the coast empties in winter and the cities in August, that combination is what stops a burglary or a squat from being completed.
Price of the Segurma alarm in Cádiz
The price is the national one Segurma publishes; in Cádiz there is no surcharge for the coast, the Bahía or the Sierra.
- 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 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 own 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 the cost over 24 months on the Segurma prices page.
The parts of the alarm, one by one
The elements most often added in Cádiz: 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 Cádiz: timescales and the visit
On the Bahía, in Jerez and on the coast, Segurma's technician usually installs within 24 to 48 hours of the sign-up being completed; in the Sierra, inland La Janda and the Campo de Gibraltar the timescale is confirmed in the survey according to the schedule for the area. If the owner is not in Cádiz, the visit is arranged with whoever holds the keys.
We talk about your home
Flat, villa, house in the pagos, beach apartment or village house; ways in, sliding doors and roof terrace; pets; how long it stands empty. We propose a kit in writing with the month 13 fee clearly shown.
The technician comes
Segurma's technician installs the panel, the detectors and the siren in one visit, with no building work or cables along the walls; then tests the system with you and shows you how to arm, disarm and use the app.
You are connected
Your home communicates with the ARC at any hour and the alert to the National Police or the Guardia Civil is configured for your address.
We, Segurma Alarmas, run this website and look after the advice, the survey and the sign-up. The service (installation, maintenance and the Alarm Receiving Centre) is provided by Segurma, and the contract you sign is with Segurma.
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Questions about the alarm in Cádiz
The National Police in Cádiz, Jerez, Algeciras, San Fernando, El Puerto de Santa María, La Línea, Sanlúcar and Puerto Real, which have a police station, and the Guardia Civil in the other municipalities (Chiclana, Rota, Chipiona, Conil, Barbate, Tarifa, San Roque, Arcos, Ubrique and so on). Segurma's ARC has it on record for your address and alerts them after checking with video and audio that the intrusion is real. You get the notification in the app at the same time.
For the first 12 months, €24.90 a month VAT included, with equipment and installation included. From month 13, €43.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad and €49.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad Plus. The promotion ends on 31 October. It is the same price all over Spain; anything added to the kit is quoted in the survey.
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an outdoor detector: sensors on every sliding door and door, a camera detector in the living room, a detector on the plot and an IP camera to look in from home. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil in Chiclana if there is someone inside. The panel has a battery and 4G/5G, so it does not depend on the power or on fibre.
Yes. The survey is done by phone, the installation is arranged with whoever holds the keys and the app works from anywhere. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil with the images; you get the notification at the same time. With the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look in on the apartment whenever you like.
It works by detecting the entry at the moment it happens, which is when the National Police can act on an offence in progress. The sensors raise the alert at the first attempt to open, the camera detector takes images of whoever comes in and Segurma's ARC verifies them before alerting. A squat discovered weeks later is already a matter for the courts; the alarm is there so you never get to that point.
The urbanisation's security controls the entrance and the communal areas, not the inside of your plot or your house. The connected alarm covers exactly that: if someone climbs the wall or forces a sliding door, Segurma's ARC sees it, checks it and alerts the Guardia Civil in San Roque, as well as the urbanisation's security service if you set it up that way. The two layers complement each other.
Yes. The whole province of Cádiz is within Segurma's service area. In country houses and villages of the Sierra the timescale can vary according to the schedule for the area; it is confirmed in the survey along with the proposed kit. The panel communicates over 4G/5G where the landline is poor.
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 Cádiz. Segurma Alarmas, which runs this website, sells its systems: we advise you, do the survey and handle the sign-up; the service and the contract are Segurma's.
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 Cádiz 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.