National vocational qualification Security guard

A security guard is a person who directly performs tasks of private security, and may implement measures and duties in accordance with legislative provisions. The special conditions a person who wishes to acquire the vocational qualification of a security guard must meet are:

• a doctor's note on the health ability to work as a security guard issued by an occupational and sport medicine practitioner;
• evidence of completed primary school.

Professional training according to the training programme to protect events in bars may be attended by persons who have already acquired a vocational qualification of a security guard or professional competence to perform these works. After the completed training, a person may also perform the tasks of protecting events in bars.

The professional training of security staff is implemented on three levels:

• applicants acquire the knowledge and skills to perform the work and tasks of security staff through professional training to acquire national vocational qualifications;

• with periodic professional training, security staff update and refresh their knowledge, and prepare themselves for a periodic test of professional competence;

• professional training enables security staff to deepen and expand their expert knowledge, and prepare for a test of professional competence.

After completing the basic professional training, persons must attend periodic professional training every five years. The cost of periodic training depend on the content. A person may attend professional training at any time.

If a person does not undergo periodic professional training within six months of the end of a five-year period after the basic professional training, it is considered that the person is not professionally competent and does not meet the conditions to perform private security.

A security worker who is qualified for several types of work is recognised as having undergone periodical professional training for other types of work if they complete training for a more demanding type of work in the following order: security manager, authorised engineer of security systems, security guard bodyguard, security control centre operator, security guard supervisor, security guard, security guard watchman and security technician.