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Continuing Education for Georgia Private Investigators

GULF BREEZE, FL, December 22, 2010 PIEducation.com today announced the formal acceptance by the Georgia Board of Private Detectives and Security Agencies its online continuing education courses for Georgia licensed Private Investigators. Course Director, L. Scott Harrell, received his GA Private Detective and Security Agency Classroom Training Instructor license #CLTR000950.

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Georgia private investigators require a total of 16 hours of continuing education due before the end of each license renewal period. By Board rule, the Georgia Board of Private Detectives and Security Agencies' CE has set the requirement that all GA PIs complete 12 hours industry related training + 2 hours on ethics + 2 hours on homeland security.  PIEducation.com offers every course a private investigator in Georgia needs to complete his or her CEUs in an affordable and convenient format. Our online CE courses for private detectives satisfies your continuing education requirements for Georgia.

The following are the Georgia statutes regarding private investigator continuing education:

509-3-.12 Continuing Education.

(1) Requirement. Any registered employee who renews a registration after September 1, 2007 must comply with continuing education requirements contained in this rule.

(2) Exemption for Newly-Registered Employees. Private detective and security employees who obtain their first registration by the Board within the second year of the renewal cycle (after September 1 of the even-numbered year) will not be required to obtain continuing education hours for the first renewal of their registrations.

(3) Hours. Registered security employees must have eight (8) hours of continuing education prior to renewal of employee registrations. Registered private detective employees must have sixteen (16) hours of continuing education prior to renewal of employee registrations. Employees registered as private detective and security guards must have sixteen (16) hours of continuing education prior to renewal of employee registrations.

(a) Security Continuing Education: 2 hours in Homeland Security, to include, but not limited to, indicators of terrorism, and cooperation with Homeland Security agencies; 2 hours in Firearms-related training; 4 hours in industry-related training.

(b) Private Detective Continuing Education: 2 hours in Homeland Security, to include, but not limited to, indicators of terrorism, and cooperation with Homeland Security agencies; 2 hours in ethics; 12 hours in industry-related training, which may include up to 4 hours of firearms-related training.

(c) Acceptable Continuing Education Providers. The purpose of this chapter is to identify acceptable sources for providing continuing training and to establish guidelines for designating those providers as Acceptable Continuing Education Providers (ACEPs). As such, it is not the Board’s intent to re quire providers or registrants to seek pre-approval of specific training programs. Continuing education documentation should not be submitted to the Board, unless specifically requested by the Board. An acceptable Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) is defined as any individual, organization, institution, association, firm, or other entity that provides ongoing training services to the private detective or security profession that directly relates to the scope of practice. This training must be facilitated or provided by an instructor licensed by the Board.

Are you looking for the required class to take BEFORE you become a private detective in Georgia? Click here for our Georgia private detective school.

About PIEducation.com

PIEducation.com has provided CEUs to Investigation Agencies and their employees via Internet and distance education since July 1, 2002. As of October 2010, the company has conferred over 11,000 CE hours to a 3,300 licensees in the states of Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oregon and Iowa. PIducation.com is a division of CompassPoint Investigations, a private investigation agency located in Pensacola, FL.

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