60 hours (excluding examination and practical exercises)
- Orientation
- Applicable sections of the Code of Virginia
- 6VAC20-174, Regulations Relating to Private Security Services
- Standards of professional conduct
- Ethics
- Signs of Terrorism
- Law - one practical exercise
- Basic law
- Legal procedures and due process
- Criminal and Civil law
- Evidence
- Legal privacy requirements
- General investigative skills - one practical exercise
- Tools and techniques
- Surveillance
- Research
- Interviewing
- Documentation - one practical exercise
- Report preparations
- Photography
- Audio recording
- General communication
- Courtroom testimony
- Types of investigations - one practical exercise
- Accident
- Insurance
- Background
- Domestic
- Undercover
- Fraud and financial
- Missing persons and property
- Criminal
- Written comprehensive examination