After waking up on Sunday morning, Chen Yang visited several private detective agencies he had commissioned one by one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In our country, "private detective" as a profession is not recognized by the government.

In 1992, China's first "private detective" agency was established, but immediately in the following year, the Ministry of Public Security issued the "Notice on Prohibiting "Private Detective Agencies" in the nature of non-governmental institutions, prohibiting any unit or individual from opening various forms of civil affairs investigation offices, security affairs investigation offices and other private detective agency nature of non-governmental institutions, expressly prohibited business includes: accepting civil and economic disputes, debt recovery and security prevention technical consultation, involving personal privacy investigations and so on.

Until China's accession to the WTO, according to the requirements of the World Trademark and Intellectual Property Organization, at the end of 2002, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce expanded the scope of trademark classification registration, and the new permitted registration categories included the provision of "security services" such as private bodyguards, detective companies and search for missing persons. However, allowing registration does not mean that China's ban on "private detectives" has been opened, and at present, the registration of enterprises does not involve the scope of detectives, and the business activities of enterprises must be strictly limited to the scope of approval of industrial and commercial business licenses.

Some researchers have classified the needs of Chinese people for private detectives into four categories: one is the investigation of marriage issues, the second is the investigation of debt disputes, the third is the investigation of business activities, and the fourth is the investigation of criminal cases, where the parties want to obtain more evidence to defend or accuse. These four are energetic or capable of personal involvement for the average person, thus giving rise to the need for private detectives. Legally, though, private investigators are in an awkward position and are always in a gray area.

Despite various restrictions, in recent years, companies with the name "Research Institute" have sprung up in various places, and there are about 2 to 3,000 such legal or unincorporated organizations nationwide. However, public affairs investigations are not the same as private detectives, and there are no private detectives in the true sense of the word in our country.

Unlike in our country, in the UK, private detective is a legal profession.

As early as the 16th century, in London and other big cities, there was a phenomenon of police officers spending money to hire poor people to replace the performing duties, which should be regarded as the earliest prototype of private detectives.

At the end of the 17th century, with the rapid population growth of some large cities, there was also a surge in criminal activity, and the demand for fighting crime was not met by officially appointed law enforcement officers and hired acting police officers. As a result, after the occurrence of some major criminal cases, the government or wealthy victims have no choice but to ask for help from the public to attract ordinary citizens to provide information and arrest criminals.

Under these conditions, "robbers" who specialize in obtaining bounties to investigate cases and hunt down criminals came into being, and they do things similar to bounty hunters in American Westerns, all of which are unscrupulous pursuit of criminals for the reward. Of course, the quality of the people engaged in the profession of robbers and bounty hunters is uneven, and while the arrest of criminals also brings a certain element of instability to society.

Even after the establishment of formal police institutions in Britain in the 19th century, private detectives still existed, which is why Conan Doyle's pen at that time gave birth to the fictional character "Sherlock Holmes", which is still talked about today.

The detective industry in the UK has developed to the present, and the police have been mainly responsible for criminal investigation, but private detectives still play an important role in some ordinary cases where the police are inconvenient or unable to intervene, or in the investigation of counterfeiting activities in the industrial and commercial fields, as well as in the investigation of civil and economic disputes.

In accordance with the relevant provisions of English law, private investigators may carry out investigative activities in civil cases and minor criminal cases on behalf of the parties, provided that they are not involved in cases involving the secrets of state and government agencies, and they must not obstruct the criminal investigation and law enforcement work of the police. If the commission taken over by the four-person detective involves a major crime, he is obliged to provide all the case materials to the police and transfer the case to the police for handling.

Regardless of the legal restrictions on private detectives, at least the profession of private detectives is legal in the UK, so in the UK, especially in big cities like London, private detective agencies are easy to find.

Originally, according to the vicious crime of Chen Yang's parents who died of murder, private detective agencies should not have intervened in such investigations. However, no regulation can be exhaustive, and the same is true of the law's restrictions on private investigators, so there are naturally loopholes to exploit.

As a result, almost all the detective agencies entrusted by Chen Yang signed agreements with Chen Yang did not take over the investigation of the murder of Chen Yang's parents, but turned into an investigation into what enemies Chen Yang's parents had before their deaths and where the bombs planted on the small plane came from.

The original vicious crime of murder has become an ordinary tracing and finding of objects, which is a civil case, and is naturally no longer subject to the restrictions of British law on private detectives.

In the past four years, although several private detective agencies entrusted by Chen Yang have not made substantial breakthroughs in the investigation, Chen Yang has never made any obvious complaints, and still pays a lot of investigation fees on time every six months.

For such customers, each private detective agency naturally treats them as guests, and specially arranges special personnel to summarize and sort out the collected information, and the information provided to Chen Yang contains both detailed and objective investigation records and simple summary case analysis.

Because he had to go to several detective agencies, Chen Yang didn't have time to stay in one of them and read all the investigation records slowly, so he could only simply read the summary analysis information provided by the detective agency at the scene, and if he really had any doubts, he would ask the person in charge of receiving him, and then he had to transfer to the next one.

At present, there are only four detective agencies that are still entrusted by Chen Yang and continue to investigate, Rao is like this, and when Chen Yang finished visiting one by one and returned home with a few thick bags, it was already past 19 o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Yang, who had been running around for a day, didn't bother to rest, and after making himself a cup of instant coffee, he sat on the sofa and pulled out the detailed investigation records of two of the detective agencies, and began to flip through them in turn.

The reason why only these two companies are looking at the information is that the other two provide routine surveys and do not mention anything special, and both of them mention new information in their summary analysis. One said it had found a suspect with a possible motive for the crime, and the other said it had made a new breakthrough in the investigation of the bomb planted on the plane.