Trustpilot
The quick reference guide.
Free to the frontline.
The answers a UK security officer needs mid shift, two taps away on any phone. Made for the people on the ground.
Free, no sign in
Works offline
By people who have done the job
An initiative led by Satia Rai, CEO of IPSA
In partnership with
Voice for the Frontline
In partnership with
Voice for the Frontline
A free guide in the pocket of every UK officer
More than 500,000 active SIA licences are held across the UK, by the officers who keep its venues, sites and streets safe. Most of them learn the hardest parts of the job alone, on shift, the night it happens. IPSA and Get Licensed are putting the whole guide in every officer's pocket, free, so the answer is already there before the situation is.
Free, forever
Every page and every future update, at no cost to any officer. Nothing on this page or inside the guide asks for money.
No gate, no signup
Open the link and read. No email address, no account, nothing collected. That is the whole deal.
Made to be shared
1 link that any employer, trainer or member body can hand to every officer they stand behind.
A word from Satia Rai
I have spent nearly thirty years in this industry, and I started where most of us start: on the frontline. I know what that job asks of you. The long nights, the judgement calls nobody sees, the responsibility you carry for people who will never know your name.
That is why this guide matters to me. Every security officer in the UK deserves access to the knowledge that makes them safer, sharper and prouder of the work they do. Free, with no strings attached, because the people who do this work should never have to pay to do it well.
IPSA exists to be the voice for the frontline. This guide, created in partnership with Get Licensed, is that voice put into practice. Read it, use it, and share it with the officer standing next to you.
Satia Rai
CEO, International Professional Security Association (IPSA)
“Every officer in the UK deserves the knowledge that makes them safer, sharper and prouder of the work they do.”
Satia Rai · CEO, IPSATrained at the start. Relied on every shift.
Security officers are the UK's everyday frontline. They qualify once, then carry that knowledge through years of nights, incidents and judgement calls. The industry is now asking more of them than ever.
A 3 year licence cycle
An officer qualifies at the start and the licence renews every 3 years. The guide keeps the knowledge live in between, on every shift.
Martyn's Law is coming
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 will ask qualifying venues to be ready for the worst. Officers on the ground are how they will be.
Standards are rising
The SIA is consulting on stronger licence linked qualifications, from counter terrorism to first aid. A free guide in every pocket points the same way.
Two taps to any answer,
mid shift
Searching
People, bags, property and crowds, stepped through one card at a time.
Refusing entry
How to say no without a fight, in words that hold at the door.
Using the radio
Codes, the phonetic alphabet and the emergency call.
Calling 999
What to say and in what order, ready before you ever need it.
Report writing
What goes in, with a worked example to write against.
Drug finds
What you find, and exactly what you do next.
The names behind the promise
Get Licensed has trained security professionals since 2007. IPSA has been the voice for the frontline since 1958. This guide is what that experience looks like written down, checked and handed over.
1 link puts it in every officer's pocket
If you run a team, train officers or represent them, you can hand every one of them the guide today. Send the link in a briefing, a rota message or a member update. Nobody signs up and nobody pays.
Employers
Drop the link into your next team briefing or onboarding pack.
Trainers
Point every learner at it on the last day of the course.
IPSA members
Share it forward. It was made for the people you speak for.
Take it. Use it. Pass it on.
The Quick Reference Guide, free to the frontline. An IPSA and Get Licensed initiative.
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