Professional Investigations: Ethical Considerations for the Professional Investigator
By Dean Beers
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This article is adapted from various articles that have been introduced as a single topic and read in newsletters and magazines of multiple associations throughout the United States and internationally. The value and importance of our professional ethics cannot be overstated. Ethics are often seen as morals, they are not, though one will impact the other. Morals behavioral guides that are personal and individualistic. Ethics are rules of behavior for an individual through a group – such as an association or profession. Because of the importance of ethics, this article will always be free to our colleagues and continue to be included, in relevant form, in all of our books or comprehensive articles.
It is often said that a professional is only different from their adversary because of the morals and ethics, and using their honed skills for the betterment of others and not themselves. The same is true of professional investigators.
Our goal for this article, and all that we do with our articles, books, courses and social networking, is to do what was not done for me when I started – sharing useful and valuable information that will benefit you as a professional.
Dean Beers
Dean A. Beers, CLI is a Certified Legal Investigator and expert in criminal defense homicide and civil equivocal death investigations. He is certified in Medicolegal Death Investigation and served as a forensic autopsy assistant. He has lectured and authored multiple articles, peer-reviewed white papers, and provided expert testimony on Protocols of Private Investigation, and Forensic Investigation of Injury Pattern Analysis. He authored Professional Locate Investigations and recently completed Practical Methods for Legal Investigations: Concepts and Protocols in Civil and Criminal Cases, released by CRC Press in February 2011. Mr. Beers is the Board Chairman of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado, Region 6 CLI Representative of the National Association of Legal Investigators and has a column called Forensic Focus in The Legal Investigator, NALI's trade magazine, Region 5A Director (CO, WY, NE & AZ) of the National Council of Investigation and Security Services, Affiliate Consultant member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, and holds additional memberships in the World Association of Detectives, International Association for Identification, and Mensa USA. He began his investigative career in 1987 and operates his agency, Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC, with his wife, Karen, also a legal investigator and certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations. They have two daughters, a granddaughter and identical twin grandsons.
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Professional Investigations - Dean Beers
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Professional Investigations:
Ethical Considerations for the Professional Investigator
February 2012 for ebook distribution
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Copyrighted 2002-2012
Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI
Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC
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Professional Investigations:
Ethical Considerations for the Professional Investigator
Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI
ASSOCIATES IN FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS, LLC
Professional Investigators since 1987
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