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.
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).
Important note
Required documents
- Identity card or passport
- for legal entities: additionally, a copy of an extract from the commercial register (containing all entries)
- Professional competence examination (IHK) or equivalent examination certificates
- Proof of third-party liability insurance (in accordance with the Security Services Ordinance)
- Draft service identity card (in accordance with the Security Services Ordinance)
- Draft service instructions (in accordance with the Security Services Ordinance)
- Application form
- For foreign nationals (excluding EU countries): a valid residence permit to carry out (self-employed) gainful employment
- Certificate of good standing from the tax office
- Certificate of no outstanding debts from the municipal treasury
Further documents to be requested directly by the Trade Licensing Authority:
- Certificate of good conduct (unrestricted)
- Extract from the Central Trade Register
- Information from the Local Civil Court – Insolvency and Enforcement Court
- Information from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Criminal Investigation Department
- Information from the State Office 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 legal regulations for foreign nationals when taking up self-employment. Information can be obtained from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service Office.
- Previous convictions or other serious negative findings about the applicant
- insufficient proof of means
- disorganised financial circumstances
- lack of proof of qualification
- lack of proof of insurance
Legal basis
§34a Industrial Code
Guarding ordinance
Contact
Gewerbeamt
Appointments
Website
Telephone
Consultation hours
- Mon 07:30 - 12:00
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Tue
08:30 - 12:00
14:00 - 18:00 - Wed 07:30 - 12:00
- Thu 08:30 - 15:00
- Fri 07:30 - 12:00
- Sat Closed
- Sun Closed
Address
Implerstraße 11
81371 München
By appointment only