Private investigator licensing in Trinidad and Tobago
No. Trinidad and Tobago has no specific private investigator licence.
Trinidad and Tobago has no licensing law in force for private investigators. Successive bills to regulate the private security industry, which would have covered private investigators, have lapsed in Parliament, most recently the Private Security Industry Bill 2022. Investigators currently operate as ordinary registered businesses, subject to general law.1
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No. Trinidad and Tobago has no specific private investigator licence. Trinidad and Tobago has no licensing law in force for private investigators. Successive bills to regulate the private security industry, which would have covered private investigators, have lapsed in Parliament, most recently the Private Security Industry Bill 2022. Investigators currently operate as ordinary registered businesses, subject to general law.
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