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Principles of Private Investigation

GES 212 -- 200 hours

Course Outline

• Preface & Ethics
  1. Introduction to the field of private investigation
  2. Definition of Ethics
  3. Professional conduct in the practice of private investigation
• Overview
  1. What is private investigation?
  2. What is a private Investigator?
  3. Private investigation as a career
• Legal Terminology
  1. Terminology used in the judicial system
  2. Use of correct terminology in professional communication
• Federal Criminal Procedure
  1. Describes the process of a crime in Federal criminal procedure
  2. Rules of the different types of courts on the Federal level and their functions.
• Federal Civil Procedure
  1. What constitutes a civil procedure?
  2. The process of a civil action as it moves through the court system
• Codes and Statutes
  1. Explanation of the structure of civil and criminal statutes.
  2. How codes and statutes are decided?
  3. How to research specific laws and statutes as they affect the private investigator?
• Domestic Definitions
  1. Understand the use of terminology in domestic cases
  2. Write a professional investigative report using terminology in domestics
• Interviewing a Client
  1. How to obtain clients?
  2. Interviewing a client to gather the appropriate information
  3. Techniques of effectively interviewing a client and closing the case
• Interviewing a Witness/Statements
  1. Interviewing a witness techniques
  2. Recording of witness statements
  3. Interviewing a witness in civil and criminal cases
• Missing persons/Research
  1. Interviewing a client in a missing person case
  2. Techniques of using public record and research databases to locate missing persons
  3. Procedure of locating people
• Surveillance/ Personal Injury
  1. Knowledge of pre-surveillance and surveillance techniques
  2. Professional surveillance equipment
  3. How to do the different types of surveillance successfully?
• Process Service
  1. What is service of process?
  2. How to do process service as a business?
  3. Qualifications, procedure, and legal responsibilities of process service.
• Courtroom Definitions
  1. Terminology used in the a courtroom
  2. How to use courtroom terminology in professional reports?
• Testifying in Court
  1. Procedural rules used in a courtroom
  2. Method of jury selection
  3. How verdicts are reached?
  4. Professional conduct of the investigator
• Investigative Report Writing
  1. What constitutes an investigative report?
  2. Body and style of a professional investigative report
  3. Legal use of an investigative report