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The Alberta Private Investigators and Security Guards Act
Identification

Exemption from Act

Section: 2

This Act does not apply to:

(f) private investigators and security guards who are permanently employed by one employer in a business or undertaking other than the business of providing private investigators or security guards and whose work is confined to the affairs of that employer.
RSA 1980 cP-16 s2;1988 cP-12.01 s67

Requirement for licence

19(1) No person shall have in the person’s possession or display any badge, shield, card or other object purporting to indicate that the person is licensed under this Act except a prescribed identification card issued to the person under the regulations.

(2) Every licensee shall, while engaged in the business or employment in respect of which the licence is held, carry the prescribed identification card issued to the licensee under the regulations and shall produce it for the inspection of any person who requests to see it.

(3) No person other than the licensee to whom it has been issued shall have in the person’s possession any prescribed identification card.

See this act in full at http://www.canlii.org/ab/laws/sta/p-23/20040802/whole.html

 

*Clarification: members of the public cannot demand of Security Guards of one particular and dedicated employer (Telus) to produce ID.

If you feel that a security guard has violated the act in any form, please do NOT report to the Calgary Police Service. The proper agency to report to is the Solicitor General and Public Security (Alberta) at:
http://www.solgen.gov.ab.ca/security_programs/investigate.aspx?id=2428


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