Points that help you to become a detective

by Detective Training Venus Institute Of Investigation Studies

Ø How to become a private investigator?

True detective work, unlike the glossy media portrayals, necessitates a great deal of patience, investigative rigor, and unwavering ethics. Aside from being exposed to potentially harmful people and situations, the investigation process can take months or even years, with much of that time spent reading over documents, photographs, and files. Despite the difficulties, becoming a detective may be a rewarding career that provides profound personal satisfaction from solving crimes and giving justice to victims.

Ø Skills and personality traits to become a private investigator

Most successful investigators are inquisitive, detail-oriented, and hardworking. Perseverance may also be crucial, as solving crimes does not always happen in a linear or speedy manner.

· Ability to communicate: When interrogating witnesses, victims, and possible criminals, detectives must pay close attention to nonverbal communication clues and ask the proper questions.

· Ability to make decisions: Detectives must be able to think swiftly and act calmly, especially if someone's life is in danger or if quick action could lead to the discovery of clues to a crime.

· Inquisitiveness: Detectives who have worked for a long time are natural problem solvers who can consider many causes for a crime and how to determine how crimes were committed.

· Patience: Patience is required because, as previously indicated, solving a crime might take months or even years. Crimes that go unsolved can become cold cases, which can be discovered years later because of breakthroughs in forensic technologies such as DNA analysis.

Ø Specialization of an investigator:

· Homicide and Robbery — this unit's detectives will investigate murders, mysterious deaths, kidnappings, and robberies.

· Forensic —this division is responsible for analyzing various types of physical evidence as well as digital media discovered at crime scenes.

· Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Other Juvenile Crimes — Investigators deal with child abuse, exploitation, and other juvenile cases.

· Gangs and Narcotics — these detectives are in charge of violent street gangs, as well as the use and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms.

· Commercial-Auto theft is a type of commercial crime, as are acts of fraud and forgery.

· Financial crimes and web-based crimes are included in the technical investigation section.