Your Maine 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 Maine. 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
Maine licenses contract security companies. Their employees are covered by a statutory exception to company licensing and must satisfy employee qualification and reporting rules.
A universal initial unarmed course duration was not verified. Confirm pre-assignment instruction and later refresher requirements with the employer and Maine State Police.
Apply to a licensed company
Use the State Police company list and confirm whether the job is contract or in-house security.
Complete eligibility checks
Supply the information needed to verify age, residence status, and the statutory background standards.
Confirm employer reporting
The company must notify the commissioner before you begin guard duties and complete the required background process.
Agree your training plan
Obtain the site's induction, emergency procedures, and reporting instructions before assignment.
Confirm your situation
Labor-dispute assignments have additional timing requirements.
General career preparation is supplementary; confirm local and employer conditions.
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.