PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EXAM 2025
WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
What Act regulates the investigative services and the private security industry? -
Correct Answer - Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005 (PSISA)
When was the PSISA proclaimed into force? - Correct Answer August 23, 2007
Why was the PSISA proclaimed into force? - Correct Answer - to help
professionalize the industry, increase public safety and ensure practitioners receive
proper training and are qualified to provide private investigator services
What does the PSISA and its regulations govern? - Correct Answer - the way the
private security and investigation industry operates in Ontario
When did the training and testing regulations under the PSISA come into force? -
Correct Answer - April 15, 2010.
Who is considered a PI? - Correct Answer - individuals who have a private
investigator license and perform work, for remuneration, that consists primarily of
conducting investigations to provide information on the character, actions,
business, occupation, or whereabouts of a person
Are loss prevention specialists considered to be security guards? - Correct Answer
Yes, they are automatically considered to be security guards and do not require a PI
license.
Who consists of the private security sector? - Correct Answer 1. Private
Investigators
2. Loss prevention specialists
3. Mobile patrol services
What are the two main divisions of the security industry? - Correct Answer -
public & private
What are the majority of tasks assigned that require a security guard to do? -
Correct Answer - observe, deter, record and report
In order to be eligible for a PI licence, what do all individuals have to do? - Correct
Answer - complete the required training and/or testing
- be 18 years old
- possess a clean criminal record
- be legally entitled to work in Canada
What act regulates private investigators and security guards? - Correct Answer -
, the Private Investigator's and Security Guards Act, 1997.
Is the Private Investigator's and Security Guards Act federal or provincial legislation?
- Correct Answer - Provincial legislation
What can private investigators not refer themselves as? - Correct Answer - police
officers
- peace officers
- detectives
- law enforcement
- officer
- security officers
- private detective
What requirements must licensees meet? - Correct Answer - wear a uniform
approved by the registrar
- carrie and present their license to anyone making that request
- comply with any terms and conditions of their licenses
- be over 18 years of age
- return their licenses to the registrar when they expire or are terminated,
suspended or cancelled
- report to registrar any incident to a member of the public involving the use of
force or an unusual intervention
What is the maximum penalty for an individual licensee and in the case of a
corporation if they willingly commit an offense under the PSISA or The Private
Investigators and Security Guard's Act? - Correct Answer - $25,000 or
imprisonment for a term of not more than one year or both for an individual
licensee
- $250,000 for a corporation
What must every person do when holding themselves out as a PI? - Correct Answer
- carry his or her license
- on request identify himself or herself as a security guard
- on request produce her license
What rules must a PI be mindful of during their day to day acitivies? - Correct
Answer - must carry their license
- identify themselves and show their license if a member of the public asks them to
do so
- must wear a uniform when working
- security guards are prohibited from carrying any symbol of authority other than
license in uniform (metal badge is prohibited)
- cannot hold themselves out as police officers or performing police related duties
for this reason
Are PI's allowed to act as collectors for the collection of accounts? - Correct Answer
No, PI's cannot assist with respect to collection of accounts, acting as a bailiff,
assisting with an eviction under the tenant protection act or evictions under the
residential tenancies act
WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
What Act regulates the investigative services and the private security industry? -
Correct Answer - Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005 (PSISA)
When was the PSISA proclaimed into force? - Correct Answer August 23, 2007
Why was the PSISA proclaimed into force? - Correct Answer - to help
professionalize the industry, increase public safety and ensure practitioners receive
proper training and are qualified to provide private investigator services
What does the PSISA and its regulations govern? - Correct Answer - the way the
private security and investigation industry operates in Ontario
When did the training and testing regulations under the PSISA come into force? -
Correct Answer - April 15, 2010.
Who is considered a PI? - Correct Answer - individuals who have a private
investigator license and perform work, for remuneration, that consists primarily of
conducting investigations to provide information on the character, actions,
business, occupation, or whereabouts of a person
Are loss prevention specialists considered to be security guards? - Correct Answer
Yes, they are automatically considered to be security guards and do not require a PI
license.
Who consists of the private security sector? - Correct Answer 1. Private
Investigators
2. Loss prevention specialists
3. Mobile patrol services
What are the two main divisions of the security industry? - Correct Answer -
public & private
What are the majority of tasks assigned that require a security guard to do? -
Correct Answer - observe, deter, record and report
In order to be eligible for a PI licence, what do all individuals have to do? - Correct
Answer - complete the required training and/or testing
- be 18 years old
- possess a clean criminal record
- be legally entitled to work in Canada
What act regulates private investigators and security guards? - Correct Answer -
, the Private Investigator's and Security Guards Act, 1997.
Is the Private Investigator's and Security Guards Act federal or provincial legislation?
- Correct Answer - Provincial legislation
What can private investigators not refer themselves as? - Correct Answer - police
officers
- peace officers
- detectives
- law enforcement
- officer
- security officers
- private detective
What requirements must licensees meet? - Correct Answer - wear a uniform
approved by the registrar
- carrie and present their license to anyone making that request
- comply with any terms and conditions of their licenses
- be over 18 years of age
- return their licenses to the registrar when they expire or are terminated,
suspended or cancelled
- report to registrar any incident to a member of the public involving the use of
force or an unusual intervention
What is the maximum penalty for an individual licensee and in the case of a
corporation if they willingly commit an offense under the PSISA or The Private
Investigators and Security Guard's Act? - Correct Answer - $25,000 or
imprisonment for a term of not more than one year or both for an individual
licensee
- $250,000 for a corporation
What must every person do when holding themselves out as a PI? - Correct Answer
- carry his or her license
- on request identify himself or herself as a security guard
- on request produce her license
What rules must a PI be mindful of during their day to day acitivies? - Correct
Answer - must carry their license
- identify themselves and show their license if a member of the public asks them to
do so
- must wear a uniform when working
- security guards are prohibited from carrying any symbol of authority other than
license in uniform (metal badge is prohibited)
- cannot hold themselves out as police officers or performing police related duties
for this reason
Are PI's allowed to act as collectors for the collection of accounts? - Correct Answer
No, PI's cannot assist with respect to collection of accounts, acting as a bailiff,
assisting with an eviction under the tenant protection act or evictions under the
residential tenancies act
