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Security Industry Authority (SIA)
The Home Office body that licenses the private security industry. An SIA licence is legally required for licensable security work, and any licence can be checked on the public SIA register.
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How an SIA licence is obtained — a licence-linked Level 2/3 qualification, identity check and DBS criminal-record check — and renewed (valid 3 years, with mandatory refresher training and updated 2025 criteria).
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