_Security and Detective Agencies
There are quite a number of active detective agencies and security companies in where private investigators are in high demand, probably because of the extremely high crime rate coupled with relatively poor police work. Detective agencies are actually banned in many countries, and in others the law limits the scope of investigations that they are allowed to undertake. Although there are usually no formal education requirements to become a private investigator in most countries, many investigators do, in fact, possess college degrees or have taken some form of legal or criminal investigator’s course. Detective agencies have developed with the changing needs of the public. Social issues like infidelity and unionization have impacted the industry and created new types of work, as has the need for insurance and, with it, insurance fraud, criminal defense investigations and the invention of low-cost listening devices. In a number of countries, a licensing process has been introduced that has put criteria in place that investigators have to meet, in most cases, a this is clean criminal record. This has combined with modern business practices that have ensured that most detective agencies are now professional in outlook, rather than seeing the PI world as a second career opportunity for retired policemen
Detective agencies carry out a wide range of investigative services
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