Private investigations can be conducted for various reasons such as pre-employment screening, incident response, and exposing fraud. They differ from public law enforcement investigations in that private investigators are civil citizens without power to arrest or access privileged information. Private investigations are carried out by organizations and individuals on a personal level to uncover facts through preparation, interviews, evidence gathering, and written reports. The goal is to determine what happened, who was responsible, and how to prevent future incidents.

1. Private
Investigations

2. Aim of Session
• To provide an overview of :
• Investigations in general.
• Private investigations.
• Private investigations vs. public law.
enforcement investigations.

3. Introduction

4. Definition of investigations
• To try to find out the facts about something, (such as a crime or
an accident) in order to learn how it happened, who did it, etc.
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• The act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement,
etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth.
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5. Why investigate?
• Commitment to Customer.
• Find theTrue Cause.
• Eliminate that Cause.
• Analyze the entire safety and security system.
• Prevent future incident.

6. Types of investigations
• Pre-employment screening
• Incident.
• Accident.
• Internal theft.
• Fraud.
• Product liability.
• Industrial espionage.

7. Elements of investigations
• Organisation and preparation.
• Investigation meetings and interviews.
• Evidence gatherings.
• Writing investigation reports.

8. Private Investigations

9. Role of private investigator
• Pre-employment screening.
• Incident response.
• Conducting civil investigations .
• Expose frauds and wrongdoers.
• Testify in courts.

10. Area of operations
• Private organizations.
• Personal.
• Intelligence and background screening.

11. Private investigations
vs.
public law enforcement
investigations

12. Public law enforcement investigations
• Conducted by sworn state or federal police officers.
• Ability to make an arrest.
• Privileged access to information.
• Equipment and resources at will.
• All expenses are covered.

13. Private investigations
• Conducted by civil citizens.
• No lawful power to arrest .
• Restricted access to government information.
• Resources and equipment at own expense.

14. Thank you
Abdelhadi Loukili