PURPOSE: Under sections 84.420 and 84.720, RSMo, the Kansas City Missouri Board of Police Commissioners has the authority in Kansas City to regulate and license all private security personnel, serving or acting as such. This rule establishes procedures, testing requirements and license fees for those persons so employed in this industry.

1. (1) The board shall have the power to enforce the provisions of these rules and, upon complaint of any person or on its own initiative, to investigate violations, or to investigate the business, business practices or business method of any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or political subdivision applying for or holding a license for providing private security services if in the opinion of the board the investigation is warranted. Each entity or individual applicant shall be obligated to supply the information, books, papers or records as reasonable may be required concerning proposed business practices or methods. Failure to comply with any reasonable request of the board shall be grounds for denying an application for a license or for revoking, suspending or failing to renew a license issued under these rules. Those licensed must maintain the records that the board requires and the board may prescribe that further records be kept by certain classes of those licensed.
2. (2) The commission granted under sections 84.420 and 84.720, RSMo constitute a privilege to do business and does not invest the one licensed with any contractual interest or inherent right.
3. (3) Those licensed to perform private security services have limited police powers so long as it is exercised on the property which they have been assigned to protect. With the exception of those licensed as airport police, those licensed under these provisions have no authority to enforce ordinances, statutes or rules on the public streets of Kansas City, Missouri other than that possessed by any private citizen except to serve summons.

4. (4) Private security licenses are required for each of the following: 17 CSR 10-2

   1. (A) Any individual providing private security services within the city limits of Kansas City whether for a licensed private security business or otherwise shall be licensed pursuant to the provisions of this rule;
   2. (B) Any sole proprietorship, firm, company, partnership or corporation that provides private security services for value shall be licensed pursuant to the provisions of this rule; and
   3. (C) Any political subdivision, sole proprietorship, firm, company, partnership or corporation that employs personnel to provide private security service for that entity’s own use, may be licensed pursuant to subsection (4)(B) of this rule and shall employ only individuals possessing valid private security licenses in accordance with subsection (4)(A) of this rule.

AUTHORITY: sections 84.420 and 84.720, RSMo (1986).* Original rule filed Dec. 5, 1979, effective March 17, 1980. Amended: Filed May 3, 1988, effective Sept. 29, 1988. Rescinded and readopted: Filed May 28, 1993, effective Jan. 31, 1994. *Original authority 84.420, RSMo (1939), amended 1943, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1978 and 84.720, RSMo (1939), amended 1943.