PSC Kenya

Anyone working or intending to work in Kenya's licensed private security sector: guards, supervisors, shift leaders, control-room staff, and officers serving corporate, residential, retail, or event clients. Employers may also require it for promotion into supervisory roles, so check your company's policy before booking.

Questions are multiple choice with a single best answer per item. Expect a mix of direct knowledge questions on law and procedure and short scenario items describing a situation at a gate, on patrol, or during an incident, where you choose the most appropriate action.

The official body publishes the current question count, time allowance, and sitting schedule, and these can change between cycles. Confirm them on the regulator's official website or with your training provider rather than relying on hearsay from previous candidates.

Passing marks and fees are set and published by the official regulator and are not fixed permanently. Check the current figures on the regulator's site before you pay or book. Your training institution can usually confirm the applicable fee for its own candidates.

Most candidates find the law and ethics items hardest because the answers hinge on precise wording - what a guard may and may not do. Operational topics such as patrols, access control, and report writing are more intuitive but still reward careful reading of scenario questions.

Retake arrangements, waiting periods, and any additional fees are set by the official body and may be revised. Ask the regulator or your training provider for the current policy before assuming you can re-sit immediately or at no extra cost.

Start with law and the code of conduct, since they constrain everything else. Then work through physical security, patrols, and incident reporting as a block, followed by emergency response, crime prevention and evidence, communication, health and safety, human rights and use of force, and finally technology basics.

Common ones: answering scenarios with the most forceful option instead of the lawful, proportionate one; confusing arrest powers with a guard's actual authority to detain; ignoring documentation steps after an incident; and skipping first aid and fire safety because they seem peripheral. Read each scenario for who is at risk and what the law permits.

Practise scenario questions under timed conditions, write out the steps for access control, incident reporting, and emergency response from memory, and review the code of conduct until the principles are automatic. Confirm your venue, identification documents, and reporting time with the regulator beforehand.