Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services
Section 29-161h. - Qualifications for security service license. Appeal.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may grant a security service license to any suitable person, or to any corporation, association or partnership subject to the following qualifications: The applicant for a license as a security service shall be not less than twenty-five years of age and of good moral character and shall have had at least five years' experience in a supervisory management capacity in industrial security, or a supervisor within a federal or state security agency, or within a state or organized municipal police department or shall have had at least ten years' experience as a police officer with a state or organized municipal police department. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, the person making the application shall be an officer of the corporation or a member of the association or partnership, and meet the foregoing qualifications.

(b) The commissioner may, at the commissioner's discretion, substitute up to one year of experience for a security service applicant upon proof of satisfactory participation in a course of instruction pertinent to the license applied for.
(c) No license shall be issued to any person who has been (1) convicted of any felony, (2) convicted of any misdemeanor under section 21a-279, 53a-58, 53a-61, 53a-61a, 53a-62, 53a-63, 53a-96, 53a-175, 53a-176, 53a-178 or 53a-181d, or equivalent conviction in another jurisdiction, within the past seven years, (3) convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude, (4) discharged from military service under conditions that demonstrate questionable moral character, or (5) decertified as a police officer or otherwise had his or her certification canceled, revoked or refused renewal pursuant to subsection (c) of section 7-294d or under the laws of any other jurisdiction.
(d) Any applicant for a security service or security officer license who has been denied such license may appeal in writing to the commissioner within thirty days.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 23; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 31; P.A. 21-33, S. 4.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 added Subdiv. (5) re any person who has been decertified as a police officer or had certification canceled, revoked or refused renewal; P.A. 21-33 added “or under the laws of any other jurisdiction” in Subsec. (c)(5).

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