Private investigator licensing in Djibouti
No. Djibouti has no specific private investigator licence.
Djibouti has no licence for private investigators or private research agents (agents de recherches privées). Law No. 202/AN/07/5ème L of 2007 regulates only private surveillance and guarding, defined as activities for the security of property and of the people linked to it (Art. 2). Companies need an administrative approval (agrément) from the regional State representative after a National Police inquiry (Arts 4 and 8), and their managers and staff must be Djiboutian nationals (Arts 5 and 15). Guarding companies may not run any other activity (Art. 3), may not monitor people's political, philosophical or religious opinions or union membership (Art. 19), and must work only inside the premises they guard (Art. 20). Investigation is not mentioned, and no other law on it was found.1
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No. Djibouti has no specific private investigator licence. Djibouti has no licence for private investigators or private research agents (agents de recherches privées). Law No. 202/AN/07/5ème L of 2007 regulates only private surveillance and guarding, defined as activities for the security of property and of the people linked to it (Art. 2). Companies need an administrative approval (agrément) from the regional State representative after a National Police inquiry (Arts 4 and 8), and their managers and staff must be Djiboutian nationals (Arts 5 and 15). Guarding companies may not run any other activity (Art. 3), may not monitor people's political, philosophical or religious opinions or union membership (Art. 19), and must work only inside the premises they guard (Art. 20). Investigation is not mentioned, and no other law on it was found.
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