Private Investigator Training

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:

  • How to research information from various sources
  • Gather information through interviews
  • Have an overview of surveillance operations, both overt and covert
  • Gathering information in support of an investigation
  • Planning and reporting investigations. This includes identifying the objectives of the investigation, dealing with conflicts of interest and how to report and present the findings on the investigation

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 =

FREE Professional Expert Advice Call 01376 802014

Our Private Investigator 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 »
Mystery Shopper
Click here »
Fraud Investigations
Click here »
Employee Monitoring
Click here »
Trace Debtors
Click here »
Missing Person
Click here »
Bug Sweeping
Click here »
Private
Click here »

Contact us in Confidence

Get a FREE Quote

Link to Google Maps
  • Braintree

    While trains serve stations in the town, Braintree by the modern-day A131 and A120 is bypassed, at the Branch Line of Braintree's end. In the Domesday Book, Braintree was called 'Brantry' and 'Branchetreu'. Before running through Braintree, Pod's Brook becomes the River Brain.

    Visit Website
  • Private Investigator Braintree

    Celebrate its 150-year anniversary in 2013, this building that is Grade II listed and built in 1863 was bequeathed by George Courtald and family to Braintree citizens. For the 2018/19 season, Braintree Town FC will compete at the top tier of non-league football. At different venues, Greyhound racing in Braintree was held at Cressing from 1967, at Coggeshall from 1930-1932 and at Notley during 1932.

    Visit Website
  • Private Detective Braintree

    Edith Borthwick School is a school that Braintree has. Around the main Braintree town area, there are various industrial centres including off Pod's Brook Lane, the Broomhills Industrial Estate, Park Drive Industrial Estate, and Springwood Industrial Estate. Next to the shopping area of Freeport, Braintree Freeport and Braintree include railway stations that Braintree has.

    Visit Website
  • Investigating Braintree

    Where Braintree Branch Line joins Great Eastern Main Line to London Liverpool Street, trains depart from Braintree station to Witham. Built as early as 1848, the Braintree station was a building of timber frame, but it was later removed when the station that is Victorian (named the station of Braintree and Bocking) we see as a station that has two platforms was built in 1869.

    Visit Website
  • Searching For Braintree Sights

    Black Notley, Bocking, (a recent construction) Great Notley Garden Village, White Notley, Felsted, Cressing, Panfield and Rayne include villages in Braintree. With France's Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Braintree is twinned and gives its name to the United States' Braintree, Vermont, and Braintree, Massachusetts. Remembered at the Museum of Braintree and in the Warner Textile Archive is the town's influence on the textile weaving industry.

    Visit Website
  • Detectives in Braintree

    Providing men in the armed forces of Britain for battle, Braintree played its part during World War II, but recruiting women into the munitions work of the town or Crittalls' engineering works. On Notley High School, in 2009 the Arts Theatre of Braintree opened. Known as "The Iron", Braintree Town Football Club were promoted to the Conference South as champions of Isthmian League in 2006.

    Visit Website

Payment Methods

Useful Detective Links

Private Investigators | About us | Privacy and Cookie Policy | Terms of Use | Terms & Conditions | Contact us | Articles | ©2010-2020

Braintree Private Investigator

Private Investigator Braintree

Private Detective Resources

12 Longmead Avenue, Chelmsford, CM2 7EF