Private investigator licensing in Iceland
No. Iceland has no specific private investigator licence.
Iceland has no licence for private investigators. The National Commissioner of Police (Ríkislögreglustjóri) licenses commercial security services under Act 58/1997, but the activities listed are guarding, transport of valuables, alarm response and close protection, not investigation. Investigative work is otherwise subject to general business registration and the data protection and privacy rules.1
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No. Iceland has no specific private investigator licence. Iceland has no licence for private investigators. The National Commissioner of Police (Ríkislögreglustjóri) licenses commercial security services under Act 58/1997, but the activities listed are guarding, transport of valuables, alarm response and close protection, not investigation. Investigative work is otherwise subject to general business registration and the data protection and privacy rules.
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