Background:

This is the most professional and comprehensive private-investigator qualification course in Israel. The course is delivered by the best private investigators in the country and is intended to produce skilled and professional private investigators. The students specialize in a wide variety of investigation methods and learn about some of the most advanced systems and equipment in this field. The secrecy, risks, and experiences of being a private investigator make this profession unique and challenging; in addition, being a private investigator means being as creative as possible to come up with solutions to problems that arise in the field and at the same time adhering to the law and to ethical codes.
 
Purpose of the course:

Train the students to be private investigators and give them the professional tools to conduct all types of investigations at the highest level. The training includes surveillance and field observations using sophisticated technological measures, questioning, and intelligence gathering. The course also prepares the students to the Ministry of Justice qualification exams.
 
Primary course topics:

Relevant laws and laws that apply to private investigators; financial investigations, commercial investigations, recruitment of sources of information, exposing fraud and theft, matrimony investigations, questioning, intelligence gathering, insurance investigations, surveillance and observation; databases, data protection, technical surveillance, discovery and prevention of wiretapping; forensics, polygraph tests, employee reliability, and body language; business intelligence; covert photography, and utilization of sources of information.
 
Target audience:

People who want to pursue either a new or second exciting and challenging career as private investigators.
 
Terms of acceptance:

12 Schooling years, personal interview, and no criminal record.
 
Course duration:

The course comprises about 160 hours including the final project and field exercises. The lessons will be delivered once a week between 5:00 to 8:30 PM.

Course-completion certificate:

Students who will complete the course will receive a course-completion certificate issued by the National Security Unit.