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www.PINewsWire.net

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PI Newswire is a news aggregation service for private investigators, attorneys, forensic & financial professionals, process servers, law enforcement, government and a myriad of other interrelated industries.

www.PursuitMag.com

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The Journal of Professional Excellence for Investigators and online community for the private investigations, legal professions and protective services industries!




Practical Methods for Legal Investigations (Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI)

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  • Provides readers with concepts and methodologies of legal investigation
  • Presents a model of five simple investigative steps
  • Compliments rather than competes with already published books on the subject
  • Focuses on the search for the facts
  • Details how to present attorneys with a complete picture of the case

Written as a step-by-step handbook on methodically finding and reporting evidence in every aspect of the investigative process, this text is both a training guide and textbook. The processes described are meant to assist both novices and skilled investigators in all professions, including investigative journalists. It examines the protocols and principles that cover the finer details of legal investigation and presents a model of five simple investigative steps. This text documents the complete investigation process, from the beginning steps of gathering facts to how to presenting the attorney with a complete picture of the case based upon the facts.


_Distance Learning for Law Enforcement, Investigators and Security

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_ Attention law enforcement and investigators...these distance learning courses are offered by Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC in partnership with S2 Safety & Intelligence Institute.  These courses are specifically geared for the busy working professional who doesn't have the time to travel or the time to sit in a classroom all day.  For budget-conscious organizations, our online courses also offer a cost-effective way to train personnel without incurring travel expenses or lost productivity due to training time.


Learn About Becoming a PI

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_Be a Private Eye is the premier resource for private investigator training, information and education. This online private investigator course will teach you how to become a P.I. quickly.

Its an easy and inexpensive way for someone to find out what being a PI is about, what it takes to get involved and gets them started on the basics.

If you're interested in what it takes to be a PI, review a free chapter of this online course, developed by a PI for PIs


Professional Investigations:
Individual Locates, Backgrounds and Assets & Liabilities

(Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI)

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This is an expanded and revised update to the 2006 original 'Professional Locate Investigations'. This is a simply, straight to the point, guide to learning to conduct any type of skip tracing investigation, and use those skills and resources to also conduct any type of background records check or investigation, as well as assets & liabilities records check or investigation.

This book includes the different types of records and resources, how to search them and extrapolate data to further the investigative process. For the first time in this book is a guide to also learning the basics of fact finding investigations and reporting.

This book is written by Dean Beers, a Certified Legal Investigator and Certified Criminal Defense Investigator with nearly 25 years of experience conducting investigations. Karen Beers, BSW and also a Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, is the co-author, making her professional publication debut.



Death Investigations for Private Investigators (Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI)

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www.MedicolegalDeathInvestigations.com for details and registration
Includes the Ethics program for FREE ($25 value)!

This continuing education based death investigation course is a basic introduction into the concepts of the official investigation of death, such as by a coroner or medical examiner office, and the role that the private investigator may play in an equivocal death investigation. As might be expected, there are similar roles, overlapping roles and, of course different roles and responsibilities.  Although developed for continuing education, the concepts and methodology are suitable for any private or government sector investigator looking to expand their investigative knowledge into the basics of death investigation, and even personal injury investigations and injury causation.

This course is designed to provide the investigator currently working in, or interested in working in, the death and personal injury investigation fields the knowledge and insight to informatively and intelligently conduct a criminal defense or civil investigation in which serious bodily injury or death is the subject matter of the litigation.

This course is approved for 14 hours of instruction for Certified Legal Investigators (CLIs) and PIs in TX, OK, and IA; 12 hours in GA, TN and KY; 8 hours in LA and KS; 10 hours in OR and SC; 6 hours in NC; 4 hours in NM. An exam will be administered upon the conclusion of the program. If the candidate passes with a score of 75% or better, a certificate of completion will be issued in accordance with state licensing authority standards.

* This course may qualify for other private, government and association CE credit - please contact your oversight authority.


The Case File (Paul Purcell)

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Detail, organization, standardization, and adaptability are requirements of any system designed to help investigators improve the efficiency of their efforts, to be more organized and professional, and to increase their financial bottom line. Designed by an investigator for investigators, "The Case File" more than meets those requirements.

Detail with Simplicity
Though forms-based, the "Investigator Package" is NOT a collection of random forms, but a comprehensive system composed of over 110 pages of detailed and professional worksheets and data forms that make up interrelated sections of a highly functional yet simple to use investigation / case management system.


The Attorney Case File (Paul Purcell)

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The Attorney Case File System is the "Ultimate Case Management System" This product is the only one on the market offering full user customization in a three-component package focused on actual law office work and not just simple filings or invoicing alone.

Case / Client Workbook
The case revolves around the client and their needs.  This workbook makes sure you gather every detail about your client, their needs, and every associated step, billable hour, and nuance of the case itself.

Investigation Workbook
Many cases will involve an investigation.  If you rely on in-house staff, this workbook is their "investigation in a box."

Trial Notebook
Regardless whether your day in court is a simple hearing or a criminal or civil trial involving a jury, the Trial Notebook will help ensure you have all details accounted for.


When Doctors Kill (Stephen J. Cina, MD and Joshua M. Perper, MD)

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Dr. Cina is the consulting Forensic Pathologist associated with our agency, and the leading FP responsible for training Dean and Karen.

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Some readers may be shocked by the title of this book, and some may wonder if it is necessary to raise the uncomfortable issue of doctors killing their patients. Murder is clearly antithetical to the art and science of medicine, which is geared toward easing pain and saving lives rather than harming them. Nevertheless, doctors are people too. Physicians have the same genetic library of enabling qualities and defects as the rest of us, but their vocation places them in a position where both faculties good and bad can be exercised.


Private Investigators Magazine - PI Magazine - Private Investigators read PI Magazine, the trade publication for private detectives, police detectives, SIU Investigators and anyone interested in learning how to become a PI.

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The Magazine for Private Investigators PI Magazine - also known as Private Investigator Magazine is recognized as the only international investigative print trade publication written for private investigators, police detectives, insurance SIU, experts in a variety of investigative specialties and seasoned professionals for the real life working P.I., professional licensed investigator, Detective Agency owner, college students, interns, or anyone who is employed by a PI agency or is interested in one day becoming a real true life Licensed P. I. The magazine claims to have approximately 30,000 readers worldwide.

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