0 a person whose job is discovering information about people. A private detective is not a government employee or a police officer: --
What is to happen about a private detective?
We have exempted certain bona fide investigators and, as best we could, we have defined a private detective.
There are what we call private detective companies who can do all this kind of detecting.
It might be distasteful if the investigation were conducted in the worse sort of private detective way, but nevertheless there is fraud.
Will employers have to employ a sort of private detective to ascertain the religion of their employees?
Will local authorities be allowed to use private contractors for this purpose; for example, will they be able to use private detective agencies?
At present there is nothing to prevent a man with a criminal record from becoming a private detective.
I asked for the name of the detective in order to know whether he was a private detective or not.