Private investigator licensing in DR Congo
No. DR Congo has no specific private investigator licence.
DR Congo has no law that licenses private investigators or investigation agencies, and no statute on private security at all. The only regime is a 1998 ministerial order (amended in 2014) under which guarding companies, defined as firms protecting people and property (Art. 1), need a one-year renewable operating permit from the Ministry of the Interior (Art. 3); it does not mention investigation. Investigators therefore work as ordinary registered businesses, subject to general criminal and privacy law. The 2014 amending order was not found online, so its exact scope is unverified.1
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No. DR Congo has no specific private investigator licence. DR Congo has no law that licenses private investigators or investigation agencies, and no statute on private security at all. The only regime is a 1998 ministerial order (amended in 2014) under which guarding companies, defined as firms protecting people and property (Art. 1), need a one-year renewable operating permit from the Ministry of the Interior (Art. 3); it does not mention investigation. Investigators therefore work as ordinary registered businesses, subject to general criminal and privacy law. The 2014 amending order was not found online, so its exact scope is unverified.
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