Security Industry Authority
- Log in to your SIA online account
- Apply for an SIA licence
- Renew your SIA licence
- Find out how long it will take to get an SIA licence
- Search our register of licence holders
- Find out if you need an SIA licence
- Search for a training provider
- Report illegal activity in the private security industry
- Apply for ACS approval
- Search our register of approved contractors
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How to get an SIA licence
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How to apply for an SIA licence so that you can work in the private security industry.
Apply for ACS approval
Guidance
What we check and how you apply for approval.
Learn how we enforce SIA regulation
Guidance
SIA regulation: how the SIA enforces the law and what the penalties are for breaking it.
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What the Security Industry Authority does
We are the regulator of the UK’s private security industry.
SIA is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office.
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Guidance and regulation
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- David Horncastle appointed as interim Chair of the SIA
- SIA publishes response to consultation on code of conduct
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Chief Executive, SIA
Director of Licensing and Standards
Director of Inspections and Enforcement
Director of Corporate Services
Interim Chair, SIA
Non-executive director
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Contact SIA
Security Industry Authority
PO Box 74957
London
E14 1UG
United Kingdom
London
E14 1UG
United Kingdom
Business support line
0300 123 9298
Licence applicants and licence holders: please contact us through your SIA online account or our contact form (link above).
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