California Guard Card Training Course BSIS Certified

What is the California guard card training course?

The Pacific West Academy California Guard Card certification course is designed to provide all the information required to begin a career in the security industry. All the information provided on the course will help you to achieve certification. In the long run, it helps you enjoy a rewarding career as a security officer. Your learning commences with a thorough overview of the roles, responsibilities, and — most importantly — liabilities of a security officer who has obtained a California Guard Card certification. From there, you will learn the basics of the role, including information regarding patrolling, the management of documentation, and even customer service skills. The course also covers a number of additional areas so as to provide you with an in-depth knowledge base. This will allow you to fulfill your duties to the best of your abilities. You will receive guidance on first aid, as well as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction considerations. This course is comprehensive and detailed, without being overwhelming for newcomers. A California Guard Card certification is the first step on a route to a rewarding security career. Throughout your career, you will find the information you learn on this course beneficial.

What will you learn in the guard card course?

• Roles, Responsibilities, and Liabilities of a security officer.
• California guard card certification graduate.
• Patrolling, documentation, basic first aid and customer service skills.
• Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction considerations.

What are the requirements to get a California guard card?

• Must be 18 or older.
• Free from all felony and some misdemeanor convictions (call for misdemeanor disqualifiers).
• Pass a fingerprint check through the FBI and California DOJ.
• Pass Written Examination.
• Pass a Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire assessment.

What BSIS certification do you receive?

• California Guard Card Certified through BSIS

Duration: 8 hours

How do you get a California guard card?

The California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) sets and publishes the requirements for a security guard registration. The summary below follows the Bureau’s own Security Guard Registration fact sheet, with the statutory citations it gives.

Who is eligible to apply for a security guard registration?

BSIS states that to be eligible to apply you must:

• Be at least 18 years old (BPC Section 7582.8).
• Undergo a criminal history background check through the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (BPC Sections 7581 and 7583.9).
• Complete the Power to Arrest training.

How does the Live Scan background check work?

BSIS requires applicants to undergo a criminal history background check through the FBI and DOJ, using the Bureau’s Security Guard Request for Live Scan Service form. The Bureau notes that this form carries the correct coding and that failing to use it will delay the processing of the application. Applicants are responsible for paying all Live Scan, DOJ and FBI processing fees at the time of fingerprinting. The California Department of Justice publishes a Live Scan location finder.

When does the training have to be completed?

Per BSIS, the Power to Arrest training must be completed prior to the issuance of a Security Guard Registration (BPC Sections 7583.6 and 7583.8). After registration, thirty-two (32) hours of training in security officer skills must be completed within the first six months. A registrant who cannot provide their employing Private Patrol Operator with the certificates of satisfactory completion must complete 16 hours within 30 days of the employment date and the remaining 16 hours within six months. Eight (8) hours of continuing training must be completed annually (BPC 7583.6 and California Code of Regulations Section 643). BSIS states the training may be administered by a Private Patrol Operator, a Bureau certified training facility, or a Bureau-approved course provider.

How do you submit the application?

BSIS accepts applications online through BreEZe and recommends applying online, noting that it bypasses the Cashiering Office and can reduce application processing by up to two weeks. Applications may also be submitted on paper by mail.

Why Choose Pacific West Academy

• We are proud to be an Advanced Security Concepts, Inc (ASC) company. As specialists in Executive Protection and Specialized Training, ASC have built a reputation as one of the most reputable and capable security companies in the world. As well as Pacific West Academy in California, ASC have offices in Bulgaria, Israel, and Peru. They also have a 114-acre Tactical Training Center located in Tennessee. In terms of reputability in the security industry, ASC are tough to beat. You can thus be sure your training will be delivered by the absolute best of the best.
• As you would expect from a company affiliated to ASC, Pacific West Academy has taken steps to secure approval from authorities. At the present time, we have received approval from both the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and the California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education. Additionally, the State of California has approved and named us as an Eligible Training Partner. These approvals should reassure you that we, as a provider, have been judged able to deliver high quality and expertise across our range of courses.
• One of the reasons we have been able to enjoy the approval of the aforementioned regulatory bodies is the work of our instructors. All 14 of our instructors are highly experienced and certified. You can therefore be sure you are learning from genuine experts in their field. The expertise our instructors can offer will help to ensure you are able to fully comprehend and benefit from all the material you will learn as part of your course, which in turn should prepare you well for a future career in the security industry.