Security business - apply for a licence
Anyone who wants to guard the lives and property of other people on a commercial basis needs a licence.
Course description
Anyone who performs guarding tasks as an employee does not require their own guarding licence. However, the following applies to this group of persons:
- Entrepreneurs are obliged to register all persons who are to carry out security tasks on behalf of the company in advance with the trade authority via the security guard register.
- Employees, temporary staff and part-time workers with guarding duties must prove that they are of legal age, reliable and qualified (e.g. through IHK training certificates, IHK examinations, examination certificates as IHK-certified plant security master or IHK-certified plant security specialist, professional qualifications for the police law enforcement service, the prison service or as military police).
Required documents
- Identity card or passport
- for legal entities: additional copy of extract from the commercial register (with all entries)
- Expertise examination (IHK) or comparable examination certificates
- Proof of liability insurance (in accordance with the Guarding Ordinance)
- Draft service licence (in accordance with the Guarding Ordinance)
- Draft service instruction (in accordance with the Guarding Ordinance)
- Application form
- For foreign nationals (except EU countries): valid residence permit for the exercise of (self-employed) gainful employment
- Clearance certificate from the tax office
- Clearance certificate from the city treasury
Further documents that are requested directly by the trade authority:
- Certificate of good conduct(unrestricted)
- Extract from the central trade register
- Information from the local court - insolvency and enforcement court
- Information from the public prosecutor's office and criminal investigation department
- Information from the state authority for the protection of the constitution
Questions & Answers
The work of a detective does not fall under surveillance law, as this task focuses on investigation and observation.
Self-employed department stores' detectives require a licence, as their main task is to guard the property of third parties.
If you are not a German citizen (especially outside the EU), you must comply with the regulations on foreign nationals when taking up self-employment. Information can be obtained from the Foreigners Office.
- Previous convictions or other serious negative findings about the applicant
- insufficient proof of funds
- disorganised financial circumstances
- lack of proof of qualification
- lack of proof of insurance
Legal basis
§34a Industrial Code
Guarding ordinance
Gewerbeamt
Internet address
Phone number
Consultation hours
- Mon 07:30 - 15:30
- Tue 07:30 - 15:30
- Wed 07:30 - 15:30
- Thu 07:30 - 15:30
- Fri 07:30 - 13:00
- Sat Closed
- Sun Closed
Postal address
Gewerbeamt
Ruppertstraße 19
80466 München
Fax: +49 89 233-45173
Address
Implerstraße 11
81371 München
By appointment only