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

Get a FREE Quote

  • Peterborough

    Opened in 1978 which covers a location of 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long from west of Castor to the centre of Peterborough is the Nene Park in Cambridgeshire. Medeshamstede, which later became Peterborough Cathedral, is a monastery which establishment was seen during the Anglo-Saxon period. An administrative county in its own right with boundaries similar although not identical to the current unitary authority was formed by the ancient Soke of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire from 1889.

    Visit Website
  • Private Investigator Peterborough

    Since the early nineteenth century, brick-making had been a small seasonal craft but using the harder clays from a lower level had resulted in a much more efficient process during the 1890s successful experiments at Fletton. Since 1934, Peterborough United Football Club, in Cambridgeshire, known as The Posh, has been the local football team.

    Visit Website
  • Private Detective Peterborough

    In 2009, University Centre Peterborough opened to the first 850 students. Functions as a retained fire station nowadays, the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade is one of few of its kind. At Stanground, there will be a 1,500-home expansion and at Paston, a 1,200-home expansion when the developing Hampton township will be completed in Cambridgeshire.

    Visit Website
  • Investigating Peterborough

    To be demolished over the coming years, in July 2007, five of Peterborough's 15 secondary schools were closed in Cambridgeshire. Followed with the flagship Thomas Deacon Academy, designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank which opened in September 2007 were John Mansfield (now an adult learning centre), Hereward (formerly Eastholm, now City of Peterborough Academy, sponsored by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust) and Deacon's. Milton Hall near Castor, an ancestral address of the Barons and later Earls Fitzwilliam, is another Grade I listed building in Cambridgeshire, also dates from the same period.

    Visit Website
  • Searching For Peterborough Sights

    Containing unique information about the history of England and Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest, the Peterborough Chronicle is a version of the Anglo-Saxon one written here by monks in the 12th century. Peterborough Development Corporation was formed in partnership with Peterborough and county councils to house London's overspill population in new townships sited around the existing urban area was designated a New Town in Cambridgeshire in 1967. One each at Bretton (originally to be called Milton, a hamlet in the Middle Ages), Orton, Paston/ Werrington and Castor, were the four townships in Cambridgeshire. Peterborough Regional College and City College Peterborough are the two colleges Peterborough in Cambridgeshire have.

    Visit Website
  • Detectives in Peterborough

    In 2003, Planning permission for the expansion of an integrated care centre on the location of the former Fenland Wing at Peterborough District Hospital was granted. Although the beet sugar factory which opened there in 1926 was closed in 1991, the British Sugar remains headquartered in Woodston in Cambridgeshire. A 367 MWe gas-fired plant in Fengate operated by Centrica Energy was the Peterborough Power Station in Cambridgeshire.

    Visit Website

Payment Methods

Useful Detective Links

Peterborough Private Detective

Private Detective Peterborough

Private Detective Resources

Latest News

Frequently Asked Questions