Private investigator licensing in Marshall Islands
No. Marshall Islands has no specific private investigator licence.
The Marshall Islands has no law that licenses private investigators or private security firms. A full-text check of the 287 consolidated Acts of the Marshall Islands Revised Code on PacLII, and a title check of the sessional Acts up to the Cybersecurity Act 2025, found no reference to private investigators, inquiry agents or security-firm licensing; 'detective' appears only for the police Chief Detective (Public Safety Act 1988, 5 MIRC Ch. 5, s. 545). Investigation would run as an ordinary business under general national and local business licensing rules, which were not checked in detail.1
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No. Marshall Islands has no specific private investigator licence. The Marshall Islands has no law that licenses private investigators or private security firms. A full-text check of the 287 consolidated Acts of the Marshall Islands Revised Code on PacLII, and a title check of the sessional Acts up to the Cybersecurity Act 2025, found no reference to private investigators, inquiry agents or security-firm licensing; 'detective' appears only for the police Chief Detective (Public Safety Act 1988, 5 MIRC Ch. 5, s. 545). Investigation would run as an ordinary business under general national and local business licensing rules, which were not checked in detail.
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