Northampton
Used as a location for television, film and theatre is Northampton in Northamptonshire. Featured in William Shakespeare's history play King John and in Becket, a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is the Castle of Northampton.
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Our training courses will prepare you for the role of private investigator and will enable you to apply for SIA registration once this is enacted by the government in the next few months. These courses are priced separately but please see the package price for 3 courses, which offers a significant discount over the cost of the individual courses.
The SIA have indicated that this will be the standard qualification for registration as a Private Investigator. The Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators (QCF) focuses on:
The qualification also deals with maintaining the security and confidentiality of all information during the investigation. Throughout, there is also the requirement of knowing and complying with the laws and regulations relevant to carrying out investigations.
This qualification is based on the SIA Specification for Learning and Qualifications for Private Investigators and Pre-Cognition activities.
We can support you through this qualification in four different ways.
Option 1 - A 5 Day course covering all of the learning outcomes culminating in an externally set and marked examination.
Price £599 + vat
Option 2 - Distance learning course enabling you to study at your own pace. Supported throughout by an experienced investigator to give advice and assess your work. Once complete there is a 1 day consolidation course booked at your convenience culminating in an externally set and marked examination.
Price £449 + vat
Option 3 - For experienced investigators. This includes an interview to allow our assessor to accredit your prior experience. This is followed by a 1 day revision course where any gaps in your experience can be addressed followed by an externally set and marked examination.
Price £249 + vat
Option 4 - For experienced investigators. This includes an interview to allow our assessor to accredit your prior experience followed by an externally set and marked examination without any further training.
£149 + vat
All prices include registration and certification fees with the awarding body.
This course is aimed at investigators who wish to gain an insight into covert surveillance planning, procedures and practice. Taken by experienced trainers with extensive police and / or military surveillance experience this course will cover static, foot and mobile surveillance tactics including assessing risk and log keeping. Lasting 4 days this course is run over 2 consecutive weekends and will include practical exercises.
Price £595 + vat
A 1 day course for investigators who need to gather information and intelligence from the internet. This course shows how to interrogate open areas of the internet to discover information about individuals or companies. Subjects covered will include interrogating emails, internet sites, social media, blogs, telephone numbers addresses and company and business information.
Price £199 + vat
Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators taken via the distance learning route (with 1 day course and exam) booked together with 4 day basic surveillance course and 1 day Open Source Intelligence Course.
Price £600 + vat
5 day Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators with exam booked together with 4 day basic surveillance course and 1 day Open Source Intelligence Course.
Price £700 + vat
These courses will be run from state of the art training facilities with excellent transport connections on the outskirts of Ipswich, Suffolk. Courses are non residential but there are 2 reasonably priced hotels within walking distance of the venue. Special rates may be negotiable so please ask if you are considering booking a room. There is ample free parking at the venue.
If your company is interested in running any of these courses at your own premises we may be able to offer a discount on delegate rates, subject to sufficient delegates registering.
In the case of the Level 3 Award for Professional Investigators you would need to allow access to a room that complies with examination rules and this would need to be pre-authorised.
Used as a location for television, film and theatre is Northampton in Northamptonshire. Featured in William Shakespeare's history play King John and in Becket, a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is the Castle of Northampton.
Visit WebsiteEstablished by royal charter by King Henry III in 1261 was the first University of Northampton in Northamptonshire, which started to rival the universities in Cambridge and Oxford, with their students migrating to the Northampton establishment.
Visit WebsiteAlmost completely destroyed by the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675 was the current All Saints' Church that was built on the location of a great Norman church, All Hallows in Northamptonshire. A small rural settlement is thought to have existed in the present-day district of Duston in the Roman period where remains of Roman pottery were found there.
Visit WebsiteNational Lift Tower is a dominant feature and visible from most of the town at 127.45 m (418 ft 2 in) tall. On the Northampton Loop of the West Coast Main Line, Northampton railway station in Northamptonshire, has services southbound to London Euston and northbound to Birmingham and Crewe. Also providing two daily services to London are Virgin Trains.
Visit WebsiteThe address of Premiership rugby union team Northampton Saints, who play at Franklin's Gardens in the St James area, is the town. Northampton suffered flooding on Good Friday 1998 where two people were killed and thousands of homes were affected, particularly in the areas of Far Cotton and St James in Northamptonshire.
Visit WebsiteNorthampton School for Boys which became the top performing comprehensive school in the country in 2007 and Northampton School for Girls, the first school in England to gain Specialist Music College status are some of its successful secondary schools in Northamptonshire.
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