NY watch, guard & patrol agency bonds.
$300. Instant issue.
New York requires every licensed watch, guard or patrol agency to file a fixed $10,000 bond with the Department of State — ours is $300 flat. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this issue right after purchase.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
This is an instant-issue bond — it clears right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Department of State
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your watch, guard or patrol agency license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A watch, guard or patrol agency bond is a public-protection guarantee. You run a private security operation; the state wants a financial backstop that your agency — and its guards — will operate within the law that governs the industry.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and — by statute — the people of the State of New York (the obligee). Anyone injured by a violation of the licensing article, or by a wrongful act of the agency or its employees, can bring an action on the bond to recover damages.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Agencies that run clean operations treat this bond as a license formality, not a risk.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.