Your North Carolina 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 North Carolina. 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
Unarmed agency guards use employee registration through the employer. Initial training and any probationary assignment must follow the Board's rules.
Complete the first four hours before duty. Complete the full 16-hour basic course within 30 days of permanent, non-probationary employment; use a Board-certified trainer.
Join a licensed employer
Confirm who will arrange training and submit your employee registration.
Train before assignment
Complete the required opening topics covering the security officer's role and legal issues.
Finish training and registration
Meet the full-course deadline and provide your certificate, fingerprints, photograph, and signed application documents.
Confirm your working documents
Ask the employer which registration evidence you must carry while the application is processed.
Confirm your situation
Probationary work has employer reporting rules and does not remove pre-duty training.
General career preparation is supplementary.
Keep your sources current
These sources were checked on 2026-09-16. Check the linked regulator for changes before applying.
The Get Licensed foundations course is supplementary preparation. Follow the required approved training and authorisation process for your location.