Your South Dakota 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 South Dakota. 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
Check municipal requirements before accepting an assignment. Rapid City publishes an individual security-guard licensing procedure with fingerprint and background checks, alongside security-business licensing.
Confirm training with your employer and the relevant city. This review has not established a single statewide employee training pathway.
Confirm the location
Identify every city where you will provide security services.
Check the local credential
In Rapid City, obtain the current security-guard application through the Finance Office.
Complete screening
Follow fingerprint, background, and supporting-document instructions.
Verify approval
Confirm the required license is issued before starting work and record its renewal date.
Confirm your situation
A business license and an employee guard license cover separate requirements.
Rapid City's requirements cannot be generalized to every South Dakota municipality.
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.