Securing your home with Operation Holiday Tranquility

Operation tranquility holidays is a police and gendarmerie service that watches over your home during prolonged absences and warns you in case of an anomaly (yourself or a trusted person close to the place). Monitoring is carried out by patrols during the day, night, week and weekend.

The device works in all french departments. Registration can be done throughout the year, even outside of school holidays. The period of absence may not exceed 1 year.

You can perform the online registration process.

How to register?

Registration on site

Remember to register a few days before your departure, either on site or online.

For registration on site, you must bring your identity document and a proof of address. Keep the receipt of your registration request.

The registration conditions are different depending on your place of residence, depending on whether it is located in a police zone or a gendarmerie zone: check your welcome point.

Font Area

• Domicile concerned: principal residences.
• Absence period: between 3 days and 3 months.
• Registration: from 45 to 3 days before departure.

Gendarmerie area

• Domicile concerned: primary and secondary residences.
• Absence period: up to 12 months.
• Registration: from 45 days until the day before departure.

Online approach

The connection is made via the site Service-Public.fr :

• log in via France Connect;
• complete the online form.

Upon completion of your online registration, you will also receive a receipt of your application by email and a form containing all the information provided.

Some tips before leaving

In order to limit the risk of burglary, the police and gendarmerie services advise you:

• not to indicate your leave dates on social networks or your telephone messaging;
• ask a trusted person to pick up your mail because a full box is a sign of prolonged absence (do not leave the key under a doormat or flower pot). You can also have your mail automatically sent back to your holiday destination by the postal services;
• Forward, if possible, calls arriving on your landline phone to your mobile number.
• carefully lock doors, windows and shutters. Check the good condition of your locks and locks. A neighbor or friend can come and open and close the shutters;
• not to leave large amounts of money in your home and put jewelry, art and valuables in a safe place after photographing them. If necessary, have them evaluated by an expert and ask your insurance business about the conditions of their protection.

Advice on your holiday destination

To prevent the risk of theft at your holiday destination, you must:

• if possible, park your car in a lighted place;
• don't leave valuables, handbags, bank cards, checkbooks, mobile phones... in your car. Lock doors and close windows;
• take your keys with you when you get out of your car, even for a few moments after turning off the ignition;
• close your rental, caravan, home before your departure in town or at the beach. Avoid sleeping with windows open at night;
• keep your payment methods, vehicle keys, phones with you. Be sure to close the windows and the front door of your home, if you eat in the garden.