Every answer. On every shift.

Because officers make better decisions when they have the answer to hand. Get Licensed has trained 450,000+ people since 2007, and the questions that come up most are not the ones from the classroom. They are the ones that land at 2am with nobody to ask.

Putting the manual in every officer's pocket, free, is part of how we support people once they are doing the job. A better equipped officer is safer, more confident and better at the work, and that lifts the whole industry.

No, nothing is collected on this page. There is no form, no sign up and no download gate between you and the manual. Tap to open it and the whole thing is there.

That is what it was built for. The type, the flowcharts and the illustrated plates are all sized to be read on a phone screen in poor light, and the pages are short enough to take in while something is happening in front of you.

• Tap a coloured tab to thumb straight to a section
• Press / and search any topic, like "tourniquet" or "cannabis"
• Every cross reference is a live link, so one page leads you to the next

Check your employer's policy on phone use on shift, since that varies by site and by contract.

Get Licensed security experts, with years on the ground in UK security. The legal, incident and operations sections were written and reviewed by people who have done the work and trained others to do it, and the medical section follows current Resuscitation Council UK guidance.

It is kept up to date as the law and the guidance change, and the date it was last updated is shown at the foot of this page.

The manual is a digital edition, free to read online. It is designed to work on the phone you already carry, which means it is with you on every shift and it updates when the guidance does.

There is no printed version to order.

The manual is a reference for the job, not a qualification. It is there to answer the questions that come up on shift, once you already hold your licence or while you are working towards it.

Your licence comes from an SIA approved course. Most people start with SIA Door Supervisor Training or SIA Security Guard Training, then apply to the SIA. How to get an SIA licence walks through the whole route.

Please do, that is the point of it being free. Send the link to a WhatsApp group, put it in an induction pack, pin it in the control room or hand it to a new starter before their first shift. Everyone reads the same pages, so a briefing or a handover means the same thing to both officers.

If you run a security team and want to talk about training the people on it, Get Licensed works with employers across the UK.

Section 1 walks you through the legal conditions as 4 gates you check before you act. Each gate is a question with a plain answer, and where a gate fails the page tells you what to do instead rather than leaving you to work it out.

It covers what happens next too: reasonable force and its limits, restraint and positional asphyxia, and how to record it so the account holds up later.

Your assignment instructions and your employer's policies always come first. They are specific to your site, your contract and your role, and the manual is written to sit alongside them.

Where the manual is most useful is the ground your instructions do not cover: the law behind a decision, the first aid steps, the wording of a report, the call you have to make before a supervisor picks up.

It reflects the position at the last updated date shown at the foot of this page, and it is reviewed as legislation and first aid guidance change. The medical section follows current Resuscitation Council UK guidance.

It is written in plain English as general guidance for security officers, not as legal or medical advice for a specific incident.