Private investigator licensing in Palau
No. Palau has no specific private investigator licence.
Palau has no law that licenses private investigators or security firms. A full-text check of all 42 titles of the Palau National Code Annotated on PacLII found no reference to private investigators, detectives, inquiry agents or security-firm licensing; 'security services' appears only as a budget and condominium expense item (Titles 39 and 40). Investigation would run as an ordinary business under the general business and foreign investment rules, which were not checked in detail.1
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No. Palau has no specific private investigator licence. Palau has no law that licenses private investigators or security firms. A full-text check of all 42 titles of the Palau National Code Annotated on PacLII found no reference to private investigators, detectives, inquiry agents or security-firm licensing; 'security services' appears only as a budget and condominium expense item (Titles 39 and 40). Investigation would run as an ordinary business under the general business and foreign investment rules, which were not checked in detail.
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