All Class 1 licence applicants, except those applying for a 1E licence, are required to complete a NSW Security Licence Course (SLC).
SLED has a list of Approved Organisations who run these courses in NSW. You can view the list here.
All Class 1 licence applicants, except 1E, must complete:
- The SLED Pre-Enrolment Assessment - including a language, literacy and numeracy test (LLN)
- First Aid certificate - HLTAID011 or HLTAID014 (as per the Australian Skills Quality Authority, SLED will only accept the superseded HLTAID003 and HLTAID006 qualifications for licensing purposes if they were completed before 30 June 2022). You must make sure you keep your First Aid certificate current and renew it every three years while you hold a NSW security licence.
- The current approved mandatory units in CPP20218 Certificate II in Security Operations via a SLED-Approved Organisation
The mandatory units are listed in the NSW SLC course structure. You can see the course structure here (PDF).
If you are applying for a specialist licence – 1B, 1D, or 1F – can see the additional units specific to your Class 1 licence subclass that you also need to complete.
If you are an existing Class 1 licence holder and would like to add on 1B, 1D or 1F to your licence, you will need to complete the additional units to be eligible.
For a 1B Bodyguard subclass you must complete units from CPP31418 Certificate III in Close Protection and HLTAID014 Provide advanced first aid.
For a 1D Dog Handler subclass you must complete units from CPP31318 Certificate III in Security Operations.
For a 1F Armed Guard subclass you must complete unitsfrom CPP31318 Certificate III in Security Operations.
For more training information click here for the SLED NSW Security Licence Course Conditions of Approval.