Free SIA licence checker for the UK. Verify status, name, role, sector and expiry against the public register.
Enter a Security Industry Authority licence number to see whether it is currently Active, along with the licence holder's role, sector and expiry date where the public register exposes them. The check runs against live register data and returns a plain-English explanation of what the status means for deploying that operative.
A licence that has lapsed means the operative cannot legally undertake licensable activity, and a firm deploying them risks enforcement action and the loss of its ACS accreditation. Checking before every book-on is the only reliable way to avoid that.
This tool checks a single licence at a time and is free to use with no account. It is useful for spot checks, subcontractor verification and pre-employment screening. It does not track expiries for you.
For a guarding firm running dozens or hundreds of operatives, the failure mode is not an invalid licence today — it is a valid licence that quietly expires next month. Pulcify's SIA compliance product stores every operative's licence once, re-checks it against the register, alerts the operative and their manager ahead of expiry, and blocks assignment of an expired licence to a regulated shift.
Pulcify replaces paper rotas, fragmented clock-in apps and manual compliance trackers with a single operations-grade platform, with native iOS and Android apps for the field.
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