Almost everything League City applicants believe about Level 2 comes secondhand: from a supervisor, a coworker, or a job posting written by someone who guessed. Here are the four corrections that matter, before you spend money on the wrong class.

Correction One: It Is Not a Firearms Class

This is the big one, and it costs people time. Level 2 is the unarmed course. No firearms training and no firearms qualification is part of it. There is no range day, no weapon handling, no qualification target to shoot. Completing it does not allow you to carry a firearm on duty, and it does not by itself produce a commission.

What it actually covers is Texas security law, the professional responsibilities of a security officer, emergency procedures, and ethics, from material prepared or approved by the Texas Department of Public Safety. If your goal is an armed post, Level 2 is still where you start, it is the required first step, and the Level 3 class is the one that leads to a commission.

Correction Two: Your Employer Sometimes Can Train You. Informally, Never

Half the people who raise this are told flatly that it is impossible, and that answer is wrong. The rules genuinely allow two delivery routes for Level 2: it may be taught by the licensee’s own designated person, or by a DPS-approved school using a DPS-approved instructor. That structure comes out of §35.141(a)(1) read with §35.142 and §35.143.

What that does not mean is that a shift supervisor can wave you through because you have been on a post for six months. The in-house route is a designated person delivering the actual course and issuing the actual certificate. No course, no certificate, no license. Worth noting too: this in-house option is peculiar to Level 2. Commissioned training has no equivalent. It runs through an approved school or it does not count.

Correction Three: There Is No Continuing Education to Chase

People coming from other licensed trades assume a CE treadmill is waiting for them. Not here. Noncommissioned security officers are specifically exempt from continuing education requirements under §35.161(b). It is one of the genuinely non-obvious facts about this license and it removes a recurring obligation most applicants have already budgeted for mentally.

That changes if you later go commissioned, which is where the renewal course enters the picture. But while you are working unarmed, it simply does not apply to you.

Correction Four: The Certificate Is Not the License

Finishing the course gets you a certificate of completion: PSP 36 on this site. That certificate has to be submitted with your license application; it is evidence supporting the application, not a substitute for it. Under §35.141(a)(1) the training is what anyone applying for a non-commissioned security officer license must have completed. The application itself still goes to the Texas DPS Private Security Bureau, and the rule text lives in 37 TAC Chapter 35 if you want to read it in full.

Where the Work Is Around League City

League City sits in a stretch of the Bay Area where the unarmed posts outnumber the armed ones by a wide margin. Medical campuses and clinics along the I‑45 corridor, aerospace and engineering office parks toward Clear Lake, marinas and waterfront venues, large residential and apartment communities, retail centers and hotels. These are lobby, badge-desk, patrol-and-report and access-control jobs. Being a short drive from both Houston and Galveston also means an officer here can work a much larger market than the city limits suggest, and a non-commissioned license travels with you across all of it.

East Texas Security Training Academy runs Level 2 100% online, so no part of this requires commuting into Houston traffic for a classroom seat. Our FAQ page answers the follow-up questions, and the class list shows the whole progression in one place.