Your District of Columbia requirements
What you will learn
- Identify the authority for your location
- Explain your next training and application steps
- Know which details to confirm before starting work
Connect the shared foundations to your state entry route and official next steps.
Your shift starts here
What would you do next?
You have finished the online foundations lessons and found an employer in District of Columbia. The employer asks when you can start.
Choose a response to see what happens.
Put it into practice
Verify your training next step
You are considering paying for a course. Build this verification plan in dependency order: define your target, establish the relevant requirements, check the exact course against them, then use the confirmed answers to decide.
Select the steps in the order you would take them.
- Choose step 1 below
Lesson notes & sources
Your state entry route
DLCP licenses Security Officers and publishes a separate application route for Special Police Officers. Confirm the exact position with your prospective employer.
Ask DLCP and your employer to confirm the current Security Officer pre-assignment course, followed by on-the-job and recurring training, before booking.
Confirm your license category
Use DLCP's Security Officer requirements for an ordinary unarmed post and clarify employer sponsorship.
Prepare the current checklist
Open the SO New Required Documents link and arrange the required training, screening, and supporting documents.
Complete the application and exam
Use DLCP's official application portal and follow its listed PSI examination process.
Confirm approval and start date
Have the employer verify licensing status and schedule any remaining workplace training.
Confirm your situation
Detailed current training hours could not be confirmed from accessible primary licensing materials; check directly with DLCP.
General career preparation is supplementary.
Keep your sources current
These sources were checked on 2026-09-16. Ask the named authority and employer to confirm the remaining local requirements.
The Get Licensed foundations course is supplementary preparation. Follow the required approved training and authorisation process for your location.