KS security guard agency bonds.
$100 flat.
Kansas has no statewide licence for a security guard company — private security is licensed city by city, and the ordinance or the client contract that asks for a bond commonly names $10,000. Ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A city licence clerk wants the bond in the packet, not a promise of one — and the contract you are bidding usually wants it attached. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the term you want, and an effective date. That is the application — the penal sum is already written at $10,000, so there is nothing to size and nothing to negotiate.
Pay & e-sign
Licence and permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File it where it was asked for
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into the agency licence packet with your insurance certificate and application fee — or straight back to the client whose contract required it. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What a security guard agency bond actually guarantees
A guard agency bond is a three-party promise. Your firm is the principal, the surety carrier stands behind you, and the obligee is whoever asked for the bond. In Kansas that is almost always a city, because private security here is regulated at the municipal level rather than by a state board. Wichita licenses private security officers and private security agencies under its own code chapter, with the corporate surety bond filed with the city clerk alongside the application fee and a certificate of insurance, and individual officer permits handled by the Wichita Police Department’s private security office. Topeka licenses guard companies through the Topeka Police Department under its Merchant or Private Police chapter. Salina, Lawrence and Bonner Springs issue what they call a merchant security officer permit. Overland Park and Olathe publish business-licence categories with no security entry at all. Read the ordinance for the city where your guards actually post — not the one next door.
There is no Kansas guard licence sitting behind it. The state’s licensing act, K.S.A. 75-7b01 et seq., is a detective act administered by the Attorney General: K.S.A. 75-7b02 makes it unlawful to engage in detective business, or to operate as a private detective agency, without an Attorney General licence, and K.S.A. 75-7b03 exempts a private patrol operator while actually engaged in providing private patrol services on the property to which those services are being provided. K.S.A. 75-7b01 does define a private patrol operator — a person who, for any consideration, agrees to furnish or furnishes a watchman, guard, patrolman or other person to protect persons or property — but the licence, and the bond that goes with it, attach to detective work. That matters if your firm also investigates: under K.S.A. 75-7b11 no detective licence issues until the applicant files with the attorney general a corporate surety bond of $100,000 or more, a certificate of insurance in that amount, or a cash deposit of that amount with the state treasurer, conditioned on the faithful and honest conduct of business. A $10,000 guard bond does not satisfy that filing, and this page is not it.
It is not insurance for your firm. The bond answers to the licensing city and to the people your business touches — it stands behind honest and faithful conduct of the guard business and compliance with the ordinance you were licensed under. If the surety pays a claim it looks to you for reimbursement, which is why the application asks about the entity and its owners. It also does not replace the liability coverage a city requires separately: Topeka’s chapter, at Code §5.90.150, has a private security firm carry liability insurance of not less than $200,000 per bodily injury and $500,000 aggregate, and not less than $100,000 per claimant and $300,000 aggregate for property damage, with evidence filed with the Chief of Police and notice of any lapse or cancellation inside 10 days. Keep the bond continuous for the life of the licence — a lapsed bond is a lapsed licence — so we track your expiry and notify you 60 and 30 days out, and a 2 or 3-year term is usually the cheaper way to stay in force.
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Fixed penal sum, no credit section, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.