Registration and Licensing Compliance
What the domain tests
Registration and Licensing Compliance tests the two-track PSRA system under the Private Security Regulation Act: security companies are licensed, while individual guards are registered. You must know who needs which authorisation, what must be carried, and what triggers refusal, suspension, or revocation.
Core rules
- A guard must be registered with the PSRA before performing security duties; an unregistered person cannot be deployed, even by a licensed company.
- The guard's registration card or badge must be carried and produced on request while on duty; it is personal and cannot be lent or transferred.
- A guard may only work for a licensed security company; a licensed company may only deploy registered guards.
- Applications require accurate personal particulars, photographs, fingerprints, and a police record or character check; false information is a ground for refusal or revocation.
- Material changes such as name, address, employer, or criminal charges must be notified; renewal must be completed before expiry, and you should not assume a grace period.
- Uniforms, badges, and insignia must comply with PSRA requirements and must not imitate the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
- PSRA inspectors may enter premises, inspect records, and require production of registration documents.
Worked example
A guard's registration card expired on 31 March. On 5 April the company still rosters the guard at a gate. The guard is unregistered at that point, and the licensee is deploying an unregistered guard. Both are exposed: the guard for performing regulated duties without valid registration, and the company for a compliance failure. The correct action is to stand the guard down until renewal is granted and to record the withdrawal.
Traps that cost marks
- Assuming the company licence covers its guards.
- Believing a registration card can be used by another guard, or at another company, without notification.
- Relying on an expired card while renewal is "in the post".
- Wearing a uniform or badge that resembles police dress.