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Listed below, are some of the most commonly asked questions pertaining to South Carolina Private Investigations. If you have a question, please review this list. Please note that SLED Regulatory Services does not provide legal advice, legal interpretations, or legal opinions of any kind.

If your question involves anything not specifically addressed in state law, you are encouraged to seek the advice of an attorney. If your question is not addressed below, you may email your specific question to reglicense sled. Home current About Us Leadership. SLED Employment. Background Checks. Employee Recognition. I am a computer forensics examiner.

Do I need a private investigations license to engage in this business in South Carolina? If you accept a fee to secure or obtain [extract] information from any source, including a computer drive, with reference to the identity, habits, conduct, business, occupation, honesty, integrity, credibility, knowledge, trustworthiness, efficiency, loyalty, activity, movement, whereabouts, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation or character of a person, or in reference to the location, disposition or recovery of stolen property, or as evidence in a criminal or civil proceeding, or before a board, an administrative agency, an officer, or investigating committee, you are required to be licensed as a private investigator in South Carolina SC Code Section If you accept a fee to secure or obtain in South Carolina information with reference to the cause or responsibility for fires, libels, losses, accidents, damage, or injury to persons or property, or with reference to the location, disposition or recovery of lost or stolen property, or secure information for use as evidence in a criminal or civil proceeding, or before a board, an administrative agency, an officer, or investigating committee, you are required to be licensed as a private investigator in South Carolina SC Code Your activities, as defined, do not clearly fall within the definition of private investigation business in South Carolina law SC Code If you accept a fee to merely serve [deliver] papers to an individual, you are not required to be licensed as a private investigator in South Carolina.

This is true because the primary activity you are paid to accomplish is the mere delivery of papers to an individual — not to obtain and report information. The fact that you must seek and report a correct address or location of the person is incidental to the primary purpose of your activity and does not trigger the requirement for a private investigation license or registration. You must complete and retain a written contract, on a contract form approved by SLED, on which the other agency is shown as your client, or a written waiver of contract for that particular employer.

Your primary employment does not affect your eligibility to hold a license or registration in South Carolina unless you are employed as a sworn law enforcement officer.

If you meet all the requirements, you may secure a PI license to open your own company or registration to work as an investigator for another licensed PI company. Experience as a loss prevention employee might or might not meet experience requirements. Active Permits on December 31, ……………………………………. If your students wish to continue to schedule their NEW CWP application onsite appointment, or start an online permit renewal, or permit replacement application then they should click this link , but if they wish to submit a paper application and mail it directly to SLED , then they should click here.

Residents of the below listed states who hold permits issued by their states of residence may carry concealed in South Carolina. As such, please familiarize yourself with restricted carry locations and other pertinent provisions of South Carolina Gun Laws, links to which can also be found on this website. We answer to them as they control what we can do and what we cannot. NOTE: If you take 5 minutes…. You must be 21 for Armed and 18 to be an Unarmed Security Officer.

Do you travel to conduct training and where will you travel to? Yes, we do travel, but only if the class is big enough to make it worth the trouble. Most of our Training is conducted in Piedmont SC.

Depending on the class size, we have a few locations that we use. You receive this information once you contact us and enroll in our class. Can I become Certified after I take the class? Once you take the class, all your information is sent to SLED by the company who will be hiring you.

Can I pay for the class on my own so that I can get trained as soon as I want to? Again, once you finish the training, it does NOT mean you are Certified.