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Security Guard Licence Finder
Pick your province or territory and the role you want, and see the live guide for that jurisdiction and the regulator page that governs it. This finder adds no new facts: it routes you to the guide and the official page. It does not decide whether you qualify for a licence, and it states no fees. The regulator page governs if anything here differs.
Security guard and private investigator licensing is provincial and territorial. The regulator and the rules change at the border.
The guides on this site cover the security guard route. The regulator page linked in your result is where the private investigator route is confirmed.
How the routing works (guides and regulator pages, opened at build time)
Guides. This site has a security guard licence guide for eleven jurisdictions: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Yukon. Each guide is linked from the result for its jurisdiction. The Northwest Territories and Nunavut have no security guard licence guide on this site, and the result for those territories says so.
Regulator pages. Each result links the official regulator or program page for the jurisdiction, opened at build time: Ontario's ServiceOntario security guard and private investigator licence page; British Columbia's Security Programs Division worker licence application page; Alberta's Security Programs security service worker licence page; Manitoba's Private Investigators and Security Guards program page; Saskatchewan's Provincial Protective Services private investigators and security guards program page; New Brunswick's investigation and security licensing page; Nova Scotia's Department of Justice Security Programs Office licence page; Quebec's Bureau de la sécurité privée regular licence page; Prince Edward Island's Firearms Office page, which administers the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act; Newfoundland and Labrador's Consumer and Financial Services Division page, which lists Security Services among the services it regulates; and Yukon's Professional Licensing and Regulatory Affairs security licence page. No regulator or licensing page for the Northwest Territories or Nunavut could be verified at build time, so no link is given for those territories: check with the territorial government.
Sources: the eleven regulator pages named above, each opened at build time, and the eleven live guides on this site. No fee, age, or training figure is stated on this page: where a figure matters, the guide and the regulator page state it.
Next step: read the full step-by-step guide: How to Get a Security Guard Licence in Ontario