Do I Need SIA Top Up Training Course?

London Security College

July 17, 2021

Is Your Licence Near to Expire?

Join us in a SIA Top Up Training to renew your licence

Do I Need SIA Top Up Training Course?

The short answer is yes, the SIA has changed the qualifications needed for an SIA licence. This follows a review of the licence-linked qualifications.

The SIA Top-Up Training for door supervisors and security guards will include key elements of the new content that the SIA is introducing to licence-linked qualifications in April 2021.

The SIA has developed top-up training to make sure current Door Supervisor and Security Guarding licence holders have the same basic skills and knowledge as new entrants achieving the updated qualifications.

From October 2021, door supervisors and security guards will need to complete top-up training before they renew their licence.

Tony Holyland, Head of Quality and Standards for the SIA, says

The new licence-linked qualifications will better equip operatives to work in the private security industry. They reflect what we have learned from extensive industry consultation and engagement.

By introducing this top-up training we will be bringing the skills of existing licence holders up to date.

Our aim is to improve the basic skills, knowledge, and understanding of security operatives so that they can do their jobs more effectively. This will help to improve community safety and to protect the public in the UK.

A key element of our role as the regulator is to work with the industry to raise standards in private security. The new requirements will help achieve this.

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