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 01249 880009

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

  • Chippenham

    La Fl che and Friedberg are twinned with Chippenham. At a River Avon crossing that is prominent, Chippenham is in western Wiltshire, between the east's Marlborough Downs, to the north and west the southern Cotswolds and Salisbury Plain to the southeast. Linking Chippenham and south towns, such as Trowbridge, Warminster, and Melksham, with the motorway M4, the town is bypassed to the west by the A350.

    Visit Website
  • Private Investigator Chippenham

    With the exception of Swindon (which is no longer within the administrative Wiltshire), and thus larger than Salisbury, projections for 2012 estimated a population of 44,820, and would have made Chippenham the highest town population in Wiltshire. As Cippanhamm, Cepen, Cheppeham, Chippenham, Shippenham, and Chippyngham, the name is recorded variously. At Chippenham, thelswith (sister to Alfred the Great) married King Burgred of Mercia.

    Visit Website
  • Private Detective Chippenham

    Though Alfred escaped, Vikings that were Danish besieged Chippenham successfully. With a population of 600 to 700 in 1086, Domesday Book listed Chippenham as "Cepen". Chippenham was governed by a Bailiff supported by Burgesses, the office of Town Mayor was established in 1835.

    Visit Website
  • Investigating Chippenham

    Wincanton PLC, Europe's second largest logistics organisation, consolidated its head office operations in 2005, and moved to west Chippenham's developed office development of Methuen Park, where around 350 people it employs. On the A420 Bristol Road, Chippenham Sports Club is a sports club. At Rowden Hill, American singers Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, and songwriter Sharon Sheeley, were involved in a car crash in Chippenham.

    Visit Website
  • Searching For Chippenham Sights

    Alfred decisively defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ethandun, whose forces at Chippenham to Alfred then surrendered (ushering in the Danelaw establishment). Towards the edge of town are retail parks, such as the (Bumpers Way) Chippenham Retail Park, the Retail Park of Bath Road (with a Sainsbury's nearby), and Hathaway Retail Park, and contain fast-food outlets and superstores. Sheldon Manor is all that remains, the inhabited manor house that is oldest in Wiltshire, dating from 1282, the Chippenham Without parish encompasses the deserted Sheldon medieval village, devastated by plague.

    Visit Website
  • Detectives in Chippenham

    Over the Whitsuntide weekend, the Chippenham Folk Festival takes place every year. From 1295 onwards, Chippenham was represented in the Parliament of England and, in 1554, Queen Mary granted a Charter of Incorporation. Funded by local people and organisations, the Buttercross was re-erected in 1995 by the Chippenham Civic Society.

    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

Chippenham Private Investigator

Private Investigator Chippenham

Private Detective Resources