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SFJ Awards Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators
Hundreds of private investigators have graduated into the professional ranks from Private Investigator Training UK (PITUK).
We only use the best available centres for operational purposes, training and examinations. The Civil Service Club is just around the corner from Trafalgar Square whist Burton Regan’s southern operational base is on the Guildhall Square in the City of London.
The main UK trade bodies, claims investigation organisations, surveillance firms, legal firms, litigation support services and operatives throughout the private investigator sector choose the qualifications delivered by PITUK.
We use a university grade training platform and favour the “blended learning model” – combining in house training, e-learning, e-assessments, coursework and webinar sessions on investigative topics.
Our e-learn resources are available during and and after you complete your studies
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England.
Special Offer : Book onto SFJ Awards Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators
and get access to private investigator school e-learn:
Completing Investigations – Theory and best Practice around GDPR / DPA
and E-Learn Process Server Training for free!
Your main tutor is the Lead Examiner for the Professional Private Investigator Sector (Pearson Plc)
Existing, established professional private investigators choose our training to comply with industry best practice and many staff members at centres around the UK have taken the Burton Regan Ltd / Private Investigator Training UK route, indeed investigator trade association members and their affiliates who have undertaken the training – makes it close to 900 successful candidates to date.
Our main tutor was appointed as the Pearson Edexcel Lead Examiner for the Investigation Sector in 2013 and continues to develop qualifications – dealing with the minutia of detail that the worlds biggest education company demands.
One aspect of our main tutor’s work is the “Credit and levelling” of qualifications…assigning and quantifying, “Scope” and “Value”. This unique skill ensures that we can assign your CPD points (Continuing Professional Development) with singular and genuine authority.
The Progression and development of your tutors is predicated on a bed rock of learning and experience acquired over a period of decades at Associated Detectives (London), Nationwide Investigations Group (Manchester), Anglo European Private Detectives Limited (Leeds) – currently: Burton Regan Limited.
TRAINING MILESTONES
15/01/2011 – We Completed the first Professional Investigator Award Exam for EDI / Pearson in Surrey
10/10/2013 – Kevin Regan our main tutor was appointed by Pearson / Edexcel as the Lead Examiner for the Private Investigator Sector
20/07/2014 – We are Founding members of the ABI Academy
16/05/2019 – Kevin Regan receives the Frank Martin Award from the Association of British Investigators
14/03/2020 – We Run the first SFJ Awards Level 3 Award For Professional Investigators exam in London at the original home of the Metropolitan Police and the first “Scotland Yard”
06/08/2025 – We are part of the working group that reviewed the SFJ Award for Professional investigators and approved the content for the New Qualification Number: 610/6747/7
Operational Start Date: 01/01/2026
As a training operation with two decades of experience offering the SFJ Awards Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators (610/6747/7) we were part of the working group that contributed the Indicative Content and Learning Outcomes. We were the only team that was present at the start of the syllabus re write and who was there at the end of the process that lasted a year.
The stakeholders and gate keepers that contributed in the upgrade process were from Law Enforcement, BS102000 backgrounds, training companies, Surveillance, Osint backgrounds and we even had a NATO expert making a contribution.
The aspiration to be certified to SFJ Awards Level 3 in Professional Investigations in the Private Sector is predicated on the satisfactory completion of your studies.
The most significant change is that the classroom multiple choice exam traditionally undertaken at the end of your learning is now replaced by continuous assessment.
For learners to proceed to certification you will need to demonstrate your competence and satisfactorily complete your studies which include observations, professional discussion, practical activities, and written tasks.
Each learning centre now has a degree of autonomy and can tailor their learning outcomes to suite particular groups of learners, some centres will concentrate on statement taking and interviewing. Others on surveillance.
PITUK will have more emphasis on process serving, trace enquiries, GDPR Code, Osint and those activities that are more likely to be advantageous to new comers to progress into the professional private investigator sector. We retain the Surveillance Portfolio component of the previous level 3 award.
