Your Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin. 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
Employees acting as private security persons for security agencies need a DSPS Private Security Permit. DSPS specifies an exemption for qualifying direct employment by a business or industrial company.
Follow employer training requirements. The reviewed unarmed permit checklist focuses on application, employer documentation, and background checks.
Confirm the employment route
Ask whether you are an agency employee or qualify for direct-employment treatment.
Apply through LicensE
Include the agency's Form 3038 and FBI information-release authorization.
Complete fingerprints
Follow DSPS instructions sent after it receives the application and authorization.
Wait for the permit
Start after DSPS issues the regular or requested temporary permit.
Confirm your situation
Filing an application alone does not authorize work.
Disclose convictions and pending charges as requested.
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.