Private Security Procedures

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Cancellation or loss of the habilitation of the Private Security staff.

Cancellation or loss of entitlement to work as private security personnel

  • Document that proves the loss of any of the required requirements (Original or certified copy, according to the case).
  • Basic data of the procedure:
    • Form of initiation: At the request of the interested party.
    • Type of procedure: Authorizations, Licenses and Concessions.
    • Subject of the procedure: ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY
    • Resolution of the procedure:
      • Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
        • By competition of its own.
          • Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior.
          • Directorate General of Police.
        • By delegation.
          • Minister of the Interior, by delegation, the Director-General of the Police.
      • Maximum period for resolving and notifying:
        • 3 months.
        • The resolution of the procedure does put an end to the administrative route.
      • Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Estimatorium (start at the request of the interested party).
        • Regulations governing administrative silence: Act No. 30/1992 of 26 November 1992 on the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and Common Administrative Procedure, article 43, as amended by Act No. 4/1999 of 13 January 1999 (Official Gazette No. 285 of 27 November 1992 and Official Gazette No. 12 of 14 January 1999).
    • Resources that can be interposed:
      • Contentious - Administrative
        • Organ that resolves the resource:
          • Contentious Court - Administrative.
          • Central Administrative Litigation Courts; Administrative Litigation Chambers of the High Court of Justice.
          • Administrative Litigation Division of the National High Court; Administrative Litigation Division of the Supreme Court.
        • Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months express act, 6 months presumptive act.
      • Potestative of Replenishment
        • Organ that resolves the resource:
          • Organ that dictated the act.
        • Period for lodging an appeal: 30 days.
  • Regulations:
    • Law 23/1992 of 30 July, on Private Security (BOE No. 186 of 4 August).
    • ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR of 30 November 1998, by which the Minister of the Interior delegates certain powers and approves the delegations made by other authorities (Official Gazette No. 22 of 26 January 1999).
    • ROYAL DECREE 2364/1994, of 9 December, approving the Private Security Regulation (BOE No. 8, of 10 January 1995).
    • Code of the procedure: 111270