Change your security guard or PI licence type without retyping your details

If you hold an Ontario security guard or private investigator licence and need to change the licence type, the application repeats your name, address, and licence details. This guide is an example of storing them once in hivi.

Official form and source

Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:

• Service page: Security guards and private investigators — ontario.ca
• Form (Central Forms Repository): Application to Change Licence Type for Individual Security Guard and/or Private Investigator Licence — 026-0188

What this form is about

This application lets an existing licensee change their licence type — for example, from security guard to private investigator or vice versa, or to hold both. Confirm eligible licence types and fees on ontario.ca.

Before you start: what to gather

• Your full legal name and current address.
• Your existing licence number and expiry date.
• The licence type you are requesting.
• Any supporting documents required for the change (confirm on ontario.ca).

Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.

How hivi makes it faster

1. Save it once. Store your name, address, and contact details in your hivi profile.
2. Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to hivi Files so you are not searching at form time.
3. Autofill the form. Use the hivi Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside hivi.
4. Review and submit yourself through the official channel.

Why do it in hivi

Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in hivi — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.