Who This Certification Is For

PIA-C is built for practitioners who collect, analyze, or act on information about people in a protective context - and need to know exactly where the legal line is.

  • Security managers responsible for intelligence-driven protection programs

  • Protective intelligence analysts and threat analysts who collect information about people for protective purposes

  • Licensed investigators who perform intelligence functions alongside formal casework

  • Executive protection professionals who need to understand where collection ends and licensed investigation begins

What the Course Covers

Five modules building from the legal boundary through collection, handoff, and defensible work product.

  • Module 1: The Intelligence/Investigation Boundary

    Threshold Determination and the Three Tests. The legal line between intelligence collection and licensed investigation. You cannot work this discipline without understanding this boundary.

  • Module 2: Legal Framework

    FCRA, state PI licensing, privacy law, ECPA. The specific statutes that govern protective intelligence collection and where they bite.

  • Module 3: Collection Program Construction

    Framing statement through source register to delivered assessment. PATHS scoring and threat assessment structure. How to build a collection program that holds up.

  • Module 4: Handoff Protocol

    Seven triggers that convert an intelligence task to an investigative task. Concurrent action framework and parallel track architecture.

  • Module 5: Work Product and Defensibility

    Executive briefings, written assessments, defensibility standards, discoverability, and organizational liability. What your work product looks like when someone subpoenas it.

What You Leave With

The ability to defend every collection decision you make, in writing, under legal scrutiny, before it becomes a problem.

  • Build a legally defensible collection program from scratch

  • Identify the seven triggers that convert an intelligence task to an investigative task

  • Score a threat using PATHS methodology and produce a structured assessment

  • Produce work product that survives subpoena and legal discovery

  • Execute a compliant handoff using the concurrent action framework

You protect others. Protect yourself.

$325. One-time payment. Immediate access. No enrollment expiration.

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