Private investigator licensing in Cabo Verde
No. Cabo Verde has no specific private investigator licence.
Cabo Verde has no law that licenses private investigators. Its private security law (Law No. 50/VII/2009) covers services provided to others by private companies and individuals to protect people and property and prevent crime, according to the preamble of Decree-Law No. 21/2026, which sets the statute for private security staff. That statute covers only guards (vigilantes), supervisors, coordinators and security companies. A full-text search of the Boletim Oficial for 'detetive', 'detective' and 'detetives' returned no results. We could not open the 2009 law itself, so whether it says anything about investigation is unverified.1
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Do you need a licence to be a private investigator in Cabo Verde?+
No. Cabo Verde has no specific private investigator licence. Cabo Verde has no law that licenses private investigators. Its private security law (Law No. 50/VII/2009) covers services provided to others by private companies and individuals to protect people and property and prevent crime, according to the preamble of Decree-Law No. 21/2026, which sets the statute for private security staff. That statute covers only guards (vigilantes), supervisors, coordinators and security companies. A full-text search of the Boletim Oficial for 'detetive', 'detective' and 'detetives' returned no results. We could not open the 2009 law itself, so whether it says anything about investigation is unverified.
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