NEW! Security Guard Renewal Request Form

If you are eligible to renew your license and you have not received a renewal form, click the button below to request a form.

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A Security Guard is a person 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:

• 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.

It is the responsibility of licensees to understand the Private Investigators, Bail Enforcement Agents, Watch, Guard or Patrol Agencies and Security Guards License Law.

Term of registration is two years.