Private Investigator/Detective Training Courses

Our training courses will prepare you for the role of private investigator and will enable you to apply for SIA registration once this is enacted by the government in the next few months. These courses are priced separately but please see the package price for 3 courses, which offers a significant discount over the cost of the individual courses.

Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators

The SIA have indicated that this will be the standard qualification for registration as a Private Investigator. The Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators (QCF) focuses on:

The qualification also deals with maintaining the security and confidentiality of all information during the investigation. Throughout, there is also the requirement of knowing and complying with the laws and regulations relevant to carrying out investigations.

This qualification is based on the SIA Specification for Learning and Qualifications for Private Investigators and Pre-Cognition activities.

We can support you through this qualification in four different ways.

Option 1 - A 5 Day course covering all of the learning outcomes culminating in an externally set and marked examination.

Price £599 + vat

Option 2 - Distance learning course enabling you to study at your own pace. Supported throughout by an experienced investigator to give advice and assess your work. Once complete there is a 1 day consolidation course booked at your convenience culminating in an externally set and marked examination.

Price £449 + vat

Option 3 - For experienced investigators. This includes an interview to allow our assessor to accredit your prior experience. This is followed by a 1 day revision course where any gaps in your experience can be addressed followed by an externally set and marked examination.

Price £249 + vat

Option 4 - For experienced investigators. This includes an interview to allow our assessor to accredit your prior experience followed by an externally set and marked examination without any further training.

£149 + vat

All prices include registration and certification fees with the awarding body.

Covert Surveillance - Entry Level

This course is aimed at investigators who wish to gain an insight into covert surveillance planning, procedures and practice. Taken by experienced trainers with extensive police and / or military surveillance experience this course will cover static, foot and mobile surveillance tactics including assessing risk and log keeping. Lasting 4 days this course is run over 2 consecutive weekends and will include practical exercises.

Price £595 + vat

Open Source Intelligence

A 1 day course for investigators who need to gather information and intelligence from the internet. This course shows how to interrogate open areas of the internet to discover information about individuals or companies. Subjects covered will include interrogating emails, internet sites, social media, blogs, telephone numbers addresses and company and business information.

Price £199 + vat

Package Prices

Package 1

Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators taken via the distance learning route (with 1 day course and exam) booked together with 4 day basic surveillance course and 1 day Open Source Intelligence Course.

Price £600 + vat

Package 2

5 day Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators with exam booked together with 4 day basic surveillance course and 1 day Open Source Intelligence Course.

Price £700 + vat

Course Location

These courses will be run from state of the art training facilities with excellent transport connections on the outskirts of Ipswich, Suffolk. Courses are non residential but there are 2 reasonably priced hotels within walking distance of the venue. Special rates may be negotiable so please ask if you are considering booking a room. There is ample free parking at the venue.

Group Bookings

If your company is interested in running any of these courses at your own premises we may be able to offer a discount on delegate rates, subject to sufficient delegates registering.

In the case of the Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators you would need to allow access to a room that complies with examination rules and this would need to be pre-authorised.

Enquiry Form

1 + 2 =

Our Private Detective Services

Surveillance
Click here »
Background Checks
Click here »
Matrimonial
Click here »
Corporate
Click here »
Lie Detector Test
Click here »
PC/Email Forensics
Click here »
Phone/Text Forensics
Click here »
Asset Location
Click here »
Close Protection
Click here »
Security Services
Click here »
Fraud Investigations
Click here »
Employee Monitoring
Click here »
Trace Debtors
Click here »
Missing Person
Click here »
Human Resources
Click here »
Private
Click here »

Contact us in Confidence

Call us 01727 240 104
Email us Email us

Get a FREE Quote

  • St Albans

    A Hertfordshire city, St Albans (/ˈɔːlbənz/) is the urban area that is major in the St Albans District and City. St Peter Rural, St Michael Rural, reduced St Stephen, and Sandridge Rural became part in 1894 of Rural District of St Albans, include parishes that were formed outside the borough.

    Visit Website
  • Private Investigator St Albans

    One of the skateparks indoors that is finest and oldest, Heathlands Drive's Pioneer Skatepark, is in St Albans, next to the fire station that is former. Home to Samuel Ryder, the founder of the Ryder cup, was St Albans. Until it moved to the university's De Havilland campus in Hatfield in 2011, the law school of the University of Hertfordshire used to be in Hatfield Road in St Albans.

    Visit Website
  • Private Detective St Albans

    The St Albans inhabitants that are Saxon nearby were aware as late as the eighth century of their neighbour that is ancient, which as Verulamac stir they knew or, under "the fortress of the followers of W cla", Vaeclingsc stir, what H. R. Loyn terms "their own hybrid", a pocket in an area that was increasingly Saxonised of British-speakers remaining separate. Following the Abbey of St Albans elevation to cathedral, the borough gained city status in 1887, and to include part of Sandridge parish the boundary was adjusted.

    Visit Website
  • Investigating St Albans

    St Albans City station, which is 0.5 miles (800 m) east of the centre, and St Albans Abbey station, which is approximately 0.7 miles (1 km) south-west of the city station, include two railway stations that serve the city. Trestle Theatre Company, who have been creating since 1981 innovative, inspirational, and professional physical storytelling theatre, is in St Albans.

    Visit Website
  • Searching For St Albans Sights

    Founded in 2005, with structured and fun classes that are recreational as well as a professionally managed competitive squad, St Albans Gymnastics Club provides the St Albans area. A further education college, a campus of Oaklands College is in Smallford in St Albans. As the most expensive square on UK Here and Now Edition Monopoly board, having won an internet vote, St Albans replaced Mayfair in September 2007.

    Visit Website
  • Detectives in St Albans

    The "Slade Prison" gate that is main in the Porridge sitcom, the BBC used in Victoria Street, the former St Albans Prison Main Gate House. On the old Roman road of Watling Street, St Albans was the first town for travellers heading north, and it became the Roman city of Verulamium. To the east of W clingacaester, the medieval town grew where the St Albans Abbey was founded in 793 by Ulsinus.

    Visit Website

Payment Methods

Useful Detective Links

St Albans Private Detective

Private Detective St Albans

Private Detective Resources

Frequently Asked Questions