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PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR LICENCE CHRONOLOGY (ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND & N IRELAND) <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Security Industry Authority published their Impact Assessment of Regulations to implement the Private Security Industry Act 2001 in respect of Private Investigators on: Friday, 25th July 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrivate investigators will have to prove they are fit to practise before being licensed, the Home Office has decided after publishing its long awaited verdict on how to regulate the industry\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Home Affairs Select Committee announces their inquiry into Private Investigators on: Tuesday, 29th November 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Investigators call for licensing: \u201cPrivate investigators have told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics they want a statutory-backed licensing system\u201d. (BBC News Thursday, 2nd February 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Home Affairs Select Committee take oral evidence from: Lynne Featherstone (Member of Parliament) on: Tuesday, 22 May 2012:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: \u201cLet us now go to private investigators. You are the Minister responsible. Why are private investigators still unregulated after 11 years since the passing of the Act\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynne Featherstone: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight. I can\u2019t comment on why they were not regulated under the last Government. I am sure the wider population would be surprised to find that private investigators are not licensed. Since we came into Government, the first order was around the stage we had reached in terms of becoming a very developed and mature Security Industry Authority, so I would say absolutely ready to licence. However, the Coalition, when it came in, had a broader remit in terms of regulation itself and we had to wait until the regulation picture became clearer. Of course now we are just waiting for Leveson and indeed your inquiry to conclude, because there is some crossover, and we will go ahead as soon as those inquiries do conclude. Leveson concludes in-October, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOctober, yes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynne Featherstone: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOkay. Well, we can get on with it as soon as Leveson completes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary of State (T. May), published the Governments response to the Home Affairs Select Committee of 6th June 2012…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Home Affairs Select Committee published its report on Private Investigators on: Friday, 6th<\/sup> July 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leveson completed on: Thursday, 29th November 2012 (Without any reference to Private Investigators!!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cCode of Practice for the Provision of Investigative Services finished its public consultation on: 31st May 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It codifies: “The conduct, management, staffing and operational accountability for the provision of investigative services”…
…in line with recommendations made by the Home Affairs Select Committee…. Private Investigators will need to comply with: British Standard: BS 102000. This introduces a Code of Practice and a framework of best practice (Complaints procedures, insurances, staff screening, due diligence on clients, etc). A large part of BS 102000 is concerned with conducting investigations, professionally, lawfully and ethically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple 12 page document published on Wednesday, 31st<\/sup> July 2013 gave the “Green Light” for the Licencing and Regulation of UK Private Investigators to begin in Autumn 2014<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home Office Minister Lord Taylor, on: 30th June 2014, said: “The Government expects the regulations to license the activity of private investigations to come into force in 2015”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Recommendation 10 of the Security Industry Authority Review 2016\/17 gives a revised licencing direction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Private  Investigators should be treated as businesses and subject to the revised Approved Contractor Scheme system of standards. The SIA will need to work with the PI industry on a suitable set of standards and implementation timetable”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Security Industry Authority update on the Review of the Approved Contractor Scheme published in January 2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Business licensing or mandatory ACS “Cements” the direction of private investigator licences.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Government response to the report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel published in June 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relevant part of the recommendations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The government should act on its stated intention in 2013 to require licensing measures, introduce legislation to ensure the creation and use of standards, and implement the recommendation in the 2016 review concerning the regulation of private investigators”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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