- BP has a history of ‘flying close to the wind’, Chron.com, December 9, 2010.
2. A lawyer who represents phone-hacking victims is to sue News International for damages after it was revealed the News of the World hired private investigators to spy on him and another lawyer. But who regulates private investigators?
Under the Private Security Industry Act 2001, provision was made for private investigators to be licensed.
The Act set up the Security Industry Authority which prioritised the licensing of bouncers and wheel clampers.
There are now 367,000 people in the UK with valid SIA licences to work in the security industry.
But the SIA did not get round to private detectives and last year the government announced it was scrapping the organisation and replacing it with a “phased transition to a new regulatory regime”.
Legislation is expected late next year and the new body, which will probably retain the SIA name, will be independent of state control.
It will be up to the new body, which may not come into force until 2013 or 2017, to decide on its priorities and whether it has the manpower to embark on licensing private investigators.
There are a number of professional organisations which represent the industry.
One of them is the Institute of Professional Investigators (IPI) and its secretary general, Dave Pryke, said they would like a licensing scheme to be introduced immediately....
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