Security Guard
- Exam
- No exam
- Education
- Not reported
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- None
A security guard as defined in Article 7A of the General Business Law [§89-f (6)] is a person (other than an active police officer) employed in NYS to principally perform one or more of the following duties, and the person is not performing the functions of a private investigator as defined in Section 71 of Article 7 of the General Business Law: protection of persons and/or property from harm, theft, and/or unlawful activity; deterrence, observation, detection, and/or reporting unlawful or unauthorized activity; street patrol service; response to, but not installation or service of, a security system alarm.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Registry
- Exam
- No exam
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- NYS Department of State
- Division
- Division of Licensing Services
- Board
- One Commerce Plaza
- Address
- 99 Washington Avenue P.O. Box 22001 Albany, NY 12201
- Phone
- (518) 474-4429
- Agency website
- https://www.dos.ny.gov/
- Last updated
- February 6, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Security Guard 33-9032.00
Source and verification
This record is New York's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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