Private investigator licensing in Bahrain
No. Bahrain has no specific private investigator licence.
Bahrain has no law that licenses private investigators. Law No. 24 of 2006 requires a Ministry of Interior licence for security services (monitoring, guarding, transport of cash and documents) and expressly forbids licensed security companies from doing any investigation or information-gathering work (Art. 8(a)), on pain of imprisonment and/or a fine (Art. 15). No official source says whether a separate business may lawfully offer investigation services.1
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No. Bahrain has no specific private investigator licence. Bahrain has no law that licenses private investigators. Law No. 24 of 2006 requires a Ministry of Interior licence for security services (monitoring, guarding, transport of cash and documents) and expressly forbids licensed security companies from doing any investigation or information-gathering work (Art. 8(a)), on pain of imprisonment and/or a fine (Art. 15). No official source says whether a separate business may lawfully offer investigation services.
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