Regulatory Measures on UK Private Investigations to Manchester Private Investigators of Greater Manchester

The government through the Home Secretary in 2013 indicated it plans to mandate the Security Industry Authority (SIA), under which Manchester Private Investigators in Greater Manchester falls, with the task of regulating private investigation services. The Home Office announced in December 2014 that Government expects that the implementation of the initiation of the statutory certification of private investigation sector will become reality during the upcoming Parliamentary meeting, which began in May 2015. Even so, private investigations licenses have still not been introduced in the UK.
The Home Office has the obligation to implement the regulation of the private detectives’ activities and SIA will keep on coordinating with it. The SIA will cooperate with the safety industry to keep the “Get Licensed” criteria up to date while they wait for regulation to begin and they will keep on publishing at large additional information about the suggested regulation of private detectives. Once possible timelines are agreed upon with Home Office officials, the SIA will release them to the public.

Who is the licensing for? (https://manchester-privateinvestigators.co.uk)

Manchester Private Investigators (https://manchester-privateinvestigators.co.uk) ask where to get a private investigator license? The licensable activities of private investigations are defined in the Private Security Industry Act 2001 and a license can be obtained through a reputable training institution. For the list to remain updated, the Home Office will review the description as laid out in the act. Any queries on particular activities and their being licensable or not should therefore be addressed to officials of the Home Office.
The provisions of the ACT is that a SIA license will be necessary for private investigators involved in investigations, surveillance and inquiries that are meant to.

• gather details concerning an individual or concerning services or regarding the location of an individual
• gather the details about the conditions upon which properties were lost or damaged A license will be needed by any person who carries out private investigation services under contract
• Included in this group are workers, business owners, managers, supervisors, directors and shareholders in a private investigation firm

There is no confirmation yet as to whether the Home Office also intends to come up with regulations for internal private investigations.
As used in the Private Security Industry Act, “director” is anyone who is an executive or non executive director in a company, a shadow director, parent company director or corporate entity holding a director’s position.
The following acts, as stated in the Act, will not be needing a license.

• activities that have the sole intention to serve for market research
• activities particularly concerned with a credit check
• professional work in the line of a practicing barrister or solicitor’s duty
• professional activities of practicing accountants
• professional engagements of broadcasters and journalists and other activities used to gather information for them
• activities with direct link to reference to registers accessible to the public, published works, and records and registers which a person is authorised to access
• investigations that the subject is aware of and to which he agrees

Charges

If one is caught offering private investigation services without a license they will be charged as follows.

• having been convicted at a District Court, Sherriff’s Court or a Magistrate’s Court, the maximum penalty will be imprisonment for 6 months and / or fine not exceeding 5000 pounds

Sanctions for providing for unlicensed personnel will be.

• If convicted by a Magistrate’s Court, Sheriff Court or District Court, a maximum sentence of six months in prison and/or a fine of £5,000.
• upon judgment on accusation at Crown Court, High Court of Justiciary or Sheriff and jury trial, up to five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine

We are happy and excited to inform you that Manchester Private Investigators licence ready, having successfully completed all the requisite training and passed all exams and criteria set to be ready for licensing. This is fantastic news for all our potential clients, as well as current clients, because our firm activities will go on without any interruption and the transition be carried out smoothly.
Please, contact us on 0161 363 0083 if you wish to have more information about Manchester Private Investigators that are operating in Manchester and other local areas – Ingatetstone, Atherton, Urmston and the remaining Greater Manchester locations included. If you want to check out our services and read the testimonials from our current clients, you can also come to our website at https://manchester-privateinvestigators.co.uk.