Once a licence has been issued, details about the licence holder are held on a register and made available to the public. Establishing and maintaining a register is required under section 12 of the Private Security Industry Act.

The register contains the following information:

• Licence number
• First name, last name
• Activity (e.g. door supervision) for which the individual is licensed.
• Role (front line or non-front line)
• Licence expiry date
• Licence status (active, expired, revoked, suspended, withdrawn, replaced)
• The date the licence status changed. For revoked licences this is the date when the information was uploaded onto the register: it may not be the date when the revocation took effect. You should check the letter notifying you of the revocation process for the actual date of revocation.

You will be able to search the register by licence number or by a combination of personal information (the name of the licence holder, their role, etc). You will be able to search the register on the date of birth field if known to you, but this information will not be made available from any result which is obtained. Where a result is obtained from entering the date of birth, it can be taken as confirmation that the date entered is correct.

Where more than one match is found you will need to refine your search before the results can be viewed.

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The SIA processes personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Read about our Data Protection policy.