Introduction to Surveillance: Professional Investigative Techniques This comprehensive, live virtual training program equips private investigators with fundamental surveillance skills and report writing expertise. Through detailed instruction, learn methodical observation techniques, vehicle documentation, subject residence assessment, and professional report structuring. Master the essential elements of creating defensible investigative documentation that meets client needs and legal standards. This certified course delivers actionable skills for conducting effective surveillance operations while maintaining professional objectivity in all written reports. Perfect for new investigators and experienced professionals seeking to enhance their documentation practices for insurance, domestic, and corporate investigations. Approved for 6 hours of Continuing Education Units (CEU) and certified by the NCPPSB

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This Active Shooter and Workplace Violence course is an approved private investigator and security continuing education course offered for 6 CE credit hours across multiple states. It is built for licensed professionals meeting their state continuing education requirements, and this active shooter training course satisfies 6 CE hours toward those obligations. Workplace violence and active shooter incidents are among the most serious threats facing organizations today. This CE course covers how to recognize warning signs, assess threats, respond to an active shooter event, and manage the aftermath using law enforcement-based best practices. You will learn threat assessment fundamentals, situational awareness, emergency response protocols, survival strategies, and post incident procedures that protect both people and organizations. This continuing education course is ideal for licensed private investigators and security professionals needing CE hours, security managers, and workplace safety and risk professionals seeking approved multi state active shooter and workplace violence training.

Ethics in Private Investigations (2 CE Hours) Every case puts your judgment to the test. This 2-hour continuing education course equips private investigators to navigate the ethical and legal boundaries that define professional practice — from privacy and permissible pretext to client relationships, limits on deception, and courtroom credibility. Through practical frameworks and real-world scenarios, you'll learn to recognize ethical dilemmas before they become liabilities, keep your evidence admissible, and protect your license and your reputation. Earn 2 CE hours while strengthening the integrity that sets professional investigators apart.

**Ethics in Private Investigations and Security** This ethics training course for private investigators and security professionals builds the judgment needed to protect your license, your reputation, and your clients. Focusing on integrity, confidentiality, and legal compliance, this private investigator ethics course tackles the real dilemmas the field demands — conflicts of interest, the limits of lawful information gathering, and honest, accurate documentation. Through real-world scenarios and case studies, you will master the professional decision-making strategies that strengthen client trust, reinforce professional standards, and help you meet your state continuing education and licensing requirements with confidence.

Reluctant witnesses can make or break a defense case. This course teaches private investigators how to diagnose the real reason a witness is holding back, classify them into one of seven resistance types, and apply the right strategy to get truthful testimony. Using the PILA Method — Locate & Profile, Diagnose, Classify, Plan, Engage, and Document — and a real-world case study, you'll learn how to locate and approach witnesses, build rapport under difficult conditions, and document interviews and refusals in a way that protects the case. Taught by Catherine Flowers.

Report Writing for Private Investigators and Security Professionals — a 6-hour online CE course on writing clear, accurate, court-defensible investigative reports. Approved in NC, SC, GA, AL, TN, and KY.

Ethics in Private Investigations (2 CE Hours) Every case puts your judgment to the test. This 2-hour continuing education course equips private investigators to navigate the ethical and legal boundaries that define professional practice — from privacy and permissible pretext to client relationships, limits on deception, and courtroom credibility. Through practical frameworks and real-world scenarios, you'll learn to recognize ethical dilemmas before they become liabilities, keep your evidence admissible, and protect your license and your reputation. Earn 2 CE hours while strengthening the integrity that sets professional investigators apart.

North Carolina employee termination training for security company owners and private investigators. Learn at-will law, REDA, PPSB rules, and lawful firing.

This course satisfies the full 40-hour classroom training requirement for Alabama private investigator apprentice licensees under Code of Alabama 1975, §34-25B-12.1(e)(1) and Admin. Code 741-X-4.01.01. Across twelve modules, you will build the foundation every new Alabama PI needs — state law and the regulatory framework, ethics and professional standards, legal and privacy law, surveillance, research and OSINT, interviewing, report writing, documentation, specialized investigations, business operations, and field safety. Taught in plain language by a working licensed investigator, the course covers every subject area required by the Alabama Private Investigation Board and prepares you to start your apprenticeship ready to work. Includes a final assessment and certificate of completion.

6-hour CE course on professional surveillance and field operations for private investigators — stationary and mobile techniques, documentation, and court-ready reports. Approved in NC, SC, GA, AL, TN, and KY. Self-paced online.

Here's a short description for the 2-hour Nursing Home Abuse course (the multi-state Rise 360 version delivered through PI Leadership Academy): Nursing Home Abuse Prevention, Recognition & Investigation — 2.0 CE Hours This two-hour continuing education course prepares the working private investigator to handle elder-care abuse matters, whether retained by an attorney building a civil case, a family that suspects mistreatment of a loved one, or an insurer evaluating a claim. Abuse in long-term care is one of the most under-reported forms of harm in the United States, and investigators are increasingly the professionals who turn a family's suspicion into a documented, actionable fact. The course covers the five recognized categories of abuse and how they differ from neglect; the physical, behavioral, environmental, and financial warning signs of resident mistreatment; the federal and state legal framework governing resident rights and mandatory reporting; and sound investigative methodology — evidence identification, documentation, and chain-of-custody discipline — that produces a defensible work product able to survive scrutiny by opposing counsel and the courts. It also defines the boundaries of the investigator's role relative to mandated reporters, adult protective services, and law enforcement.

The Security Guard's Role in Fire Safety & Fire Watch — Online Continuing Education Earn security guard continuing education credit with this three-module online fire safety and fire watch training course from Security Compliance Academy. Built on OSHA and NFPA 51B guidance, the course covers fire safety fundamentals, fire watch duties, hot-work permits, fire-aware patrol, evacuation management, and incident reporting — the skills guards need for license renewal and for qualifying for fire watch posts. The self-paced course includes interactive scenarios, a downloadable Fire Watch Log template, a final assessment, and a Certificate of Completion for employer and compliance records. Enroll today and complete your security guard CE online.

Criminal Defense Investigation: The Component Framework Learn how to investigate for the defense the right way. This self-paced course trains licensed private investigators in a structured, six-component method for building defense investigations from intake through final report — grounded in the constitutional standards, attorney-client privilege protections, and professional duties that govern the work. Across 11 modules, you'll master case review and analysis, the defendant interview, crime scene inspection, impeachment background investigation, witness interviews, and the report of investigation. Every concept is taught the way the work actually happens in the field, with clear attention to what separates defense investigation from law enforcement investigation. Developed and delivered by PI Leadership Academy, led by Catherine Flowers, a Retired Raleigh Police Officer, Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, and licensed private investigator with over 27 years of field experience. Approved continuing education for private investigators in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. This course is worth 6 CEU hours. Complete all 11 modules and the comprehensive capstone to earn your certificate of completion. 6 CE credit availability. This course is currently approved for private investigator continuing education credit in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, with submissions to additional states in progress.

This professional surveillance training course equips private investigators and security professionals with the skills and mindset needed to conduct effective surveillance and field operations in real-world conditions. Participants learn to plan and execute both mobile and stationary surveillance, read behavior and body language, recognize counter-surveillance, and make sound operational decisions under pressure. Through case studies and scenario-based exercises, you will build practical proficiency in pre-surveillance planning, situational awareness, threat assessment, and maintaining cover and control in dynamic environments. The course emphasizes the legal boundaries and ethical conduct that protect both the investigator and the client, along with the field safety practices that keep you sharp and secure on assignment. Ideal for private investigators, security personnel, and field investigators seeking continuing education hours, this surveillance and field operations course delivers the confidence, precision, and professionalism that separate a skilled operator from an amateur.

Take this comprehensive, on-demand continuing education course designed to sharpen de-escalation skills for security professionals working with vulnerable populations. Through 8 practical modules, learn proven communication techniques for mental health crises, substance impairment, cognitive disabilities, and other high-risk encounters — grounded in real-world law enforcement experience. This certified 6-hour program delivers the skills needed to reduce use-of-force incidents and meet continuing education requirements across multiple states.