Your Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania. 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
Pennsylvania's security-business route involves county-court licensing under the Private Detective Act. Ordinary unarmed employees should verify employer, county, and city requirements for their post.
Confirm training before assignment and any later deadlines. Philadelphia's covered unarmed employees have city training requirements effective 2026-03-01, including initial and annual training.
Confirm the employer's authority
Ask which county-court license covers the agency and what employee screening and paperwork apply.
Check your location
For Philadelphia, confirm coverage under Chapter 9-6700 and the recognized training program your employer will arrange.
Complete screening and induction
Provide required disclosures and learn site procedures before your first assignment.
Track later training
Ask for applicable initial-course deadlines and the ongoing refresher schedule.
Confirm your situation
Schools, armed work, and Philadelphia assignments have specific additional rules.
A statewide ordinary-unarmed course requirement was not verified; general 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.