Private investigator licensing in Kiribati
No. Kiribati has no specific private investigator licence.
Kiribati has no licence for private investigators or private security firms: a check of the consolidated Acts and of the sessional Acts on PacLII found none. Instead, the Police Service Act 2008 makes it an offence, for the purposes of any business, occupation or employment, to use the designation 'detective' or any title including it, 'private detective' for example, or to use police expressions in a business name (s. 87(2)-(4)), with a maximum fine of $2,000 (s. 87(5)). Investigation itself is not banned, but an investigator must not call themselves a detective or suggest a link with the police.1
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No. Kiribati has no specific private investigator licence. Kiribati has no licence for private investigators or private security firms: a check of the consolidated Acts and of the sessional Acts on PacLII found none. Instead, the Police Service Act 2008 makes it an offence, for the purposes of any business, occupation or employment, to use the designation 'detective' or any title including it, 'private detective' for example, or to use police expressions in a business name (s. 87(2)-(4)), with a maximum fine of $2,000 (s. 87(5)). Investigation itself is not banned, but an investigator must not call themselves a detective or suggest a link with the police.
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