Illinois Private Detective license test

Illinois Private Detective License Examination Test
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Illinois Private Detective license testing details-

--90 minutes allowed to complete test

--you sit in a big room with hundreds of other test-takers

--75 questions on test

--multiple versions of test ('Test D', etc)

--multiple-choice answer choices

--you have only 72 seconds per question to:
A) read and comprehend the entire question;
B) read through each of the answer choices;
and C) decide on the best answer choice.

--70% or more correct is required to pass

-- testing is twice a year, March and September, in Chicago:
next is on a Wednesday in September 2024.

--results by mail in two to 4 weeks, or can check by Internet

--results tell your score, Pass or Fail, and your
strength/weakness areas of 5 topic areas

Once you pass, you have up to 6 years to apply for your license.

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Updated for 2025-2024!

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Are you ready for these
Illinois private detective test question topics?
--Testing areas include: Illinois state law; IDFPR;
federal law; legal terminology; amendments;
crimes and criminal statutes; court practices
and procedures; Illinois constitution;
Latin legal terms; advertisements; surveillance techniques;
bribery; Supreme Court;
constitutional and police powers; firearm regulations
and requirements; ballistics; privacy;
licensing & practice requirements; case management;
analysis reporting & presentation;
legal authority and limits; investigative practices
and procedures; PERC; employees;
professional misconduct and penalties;
eavedropping and privacy protections; torts;
license qualifications and training; business practices;
recordkeeping and reporting; robbery;
license violations and penalties; gathering information;
evaluating crime scenes; personation;
reporting; presentation; using sources of information;
firearm training and use; crime scenes;
insurance; hearings; employees; safety; rules and
regulations; court testimony; search methods;
evidence collection and protection; interviewing and
interrogation; crime elements; legal influences;
surveillance techniques; case management;
investigative processes and reasoning; JCAR;
criminal methods, motives, and trends; conducting
special investigations; analysis; burglary;
forensic science and technology; reports; presenting
evidence; staged crime scenes; use of informants.

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License test secret #2:

Most test-takers do the worst on
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT type questions.
These are the ones that
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Records - Employees - Legal Requirements

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Many pages of datasheets with graphics
enhance our 2025 Illinois study material!

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You can expect to find on your test:

Federal & State Law 23 Questions-
1. Crimes and criminal statutes
2. Court practices and procedures
3. Constitutional and police powers
4. Firearm regulations and requirements
5. Professional misconduct and penalties
6. Eavesdropping and privacy protections

Licensing & Practice Requirements 12 Questions-
1. Qualifications and training
2. Business practices
3. Recordkeeping and reporting
4. Violations and penalties

Detective Practices 40 Questions-
Gathering Information 16 Qs-
1. Evaluating crime scenes
2. Collecting and protecting evidence
3. Interviewing and interrogation
4. Surveillance techniques
Case Management 12 Qs-
5. Investigative processes and reasoning
6. Conducting special investigations
7. Criminal methods, motives and trends
Analysis, Reporting & Presentation 12 Qs-
8. Using sources of information
9. Forensic science and technology
10. Presenting evidence and reports

(There is also a different, combined-version 115-question test
that includes all of the items on the 'Private Detective' exam
and on the 'Private Security Contractor' exam;
2 hours is allowed for this bigger testing,
for persons who register for both exams.
It simply adds 40 additional questions,
security-related, to the Private Detective exam.
These security questions involve: planning &
administration, security survey techniques,
emergency planning and response,
personnel administration, work safety and liability,
technology & safety, security video and
surveillance systems, intrusion detection,
access control, physical security requirements,
security operations, loss prevention procedures,
patrol techniques and traffic control, serving special
clients (hotels, retail, banks, hospitals, etc),
criminal methods, motives and trends, crime scene
procedures, terrorism, workplace violence,
and more.

Security Practices 40 Questions-
Planning & Administration 10 Qs-
1. Security survey techniques
2. Emergency planning and response
3. Personnel administration
4. Work safety and liability
Technology & Safety 12 Qs-
5. Security video and surveillance systems
6. Fire protection and safety practices
7. Intrusion detection and access control
8. Physical security requirements
Security Operations 18 Qs-
9. Loss prevention procedures
10. Patrol techniques and traffic control
11. Serving special clients (hotels, retail, banks, hospitals, etc.)
12. Criminal methods, motives and trends
13. Crime scene procedures
14. Terrorism
15. Workplace violence

Our Private Detective Package does not include
the security portion-- but it too is available.)

Click here for a license application for
an Illinois private detective license:
www.idfpr.com/dpr/apply/forms/pd-ex.pdf

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We are NOT a time-wasting multiple-choice prep!


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Our copyrighted and detailed
Illinois Private Detective Study Material & Business Help
'Illinois Private Detective License 2025 Super Package'
INCLUDES:

1. --full general IL private detective licensing information--

2. --current copy, Illinois Private Detective Act (108 pages)--

3. --current copy, Illinois Private Detective Rules
(applicable sections of the Illinois Administrative Code, 40 pages)--

4. --actual example of an issued examination Pass/Fail report

5. --current copy, Illinois Handbook of Government (113 pages):

--including a copy of the Constitution
of the United States (26 pages)

--including a copy of the Constitution
of the State of Illinois (31 pages)--

6. --Illinois Department of Financial
and Professional Regulation's
2010 formal written statement/decision
regarding Computer Forensics
and that if this particular service requires
private detective licensing--

7. --copies of applicable code sections, Illinois Compiled Statutes--

8. --sample study questions, with verified correct answers--

9: ***--the 3 vocabulary words that virtually no PI license
applicant could correctly choose the correct definition!--*** 

10: --training information that you won't already
know if you never attended a detective academy--

11: --a 'secret' phone number to use that verbally tells
you the number of the phone you are calling from
(when you need it, it is invaluable)--


12: --information about joining the 4000-member thePIgroup (www.thePIgroup.com) free!--


13: ***--a copy from the
US Bureau of Labor Statistics of their
'Occupational Outlook Handbook, newest edition,
Private Detectives and Investigators'--***

14: --data presented in a keep-you-awake random &
scrambled order of continual topic changes;
many parts even repeated
and/or re-worded as to reinforce
several less-known items;
redundancy for certain items!--

15: --free database searches and/or trial periods
from several of the main PI database companies--

16: --dozens of info sheets of items to help you start a PI business NOW--

17: --First Aid, basic instructions--

18: ***--a free consultation with a highly-experienced expert
with 30-years private investigation industry experience--***

19: --Learn some simple things that might make the difference between you being

A: a 'successful IL private detective business'
 -or-
B: 'just another IL private detective with a license
in your wallet that is doing nothing for you'--

20:--advanced topics not needed
for testing but to implant the
knowledge now that will be needed
once your PI business is going!--

21: --free help with your first PI business website or blog!--

22: --copies of the two important government codes
for if you ever do any kind of debt-collection work--

23:--'tricks of the trade' advice, such as
How to get addresses to many unlisted
phone numbers instantly and for free!--

24. Known as 'The PI Academy In-A-Box'!

25.--a Frequently Needed Sources for PIs list--

26. --Want to be able to verify the
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new employees of other businesses for them,
through Homeland Security?
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28: --can sometimes be shipped immediately
(contact us for those optional details) --

29: --also used to prepare for the nationwide
Certified Master Investigator certification testing--

30. --hundreds of questions to test your General Investigative Proficiency --

31. --a copy of the Federal form that
requires the Post Office to give
you the Change Of Address information
they have on file for your person --

32.--Reminder: the majority of this
package is copyrighted material--

33. --What an IL PI must know about the Federal
HIPAA laws or risk getting fined or sent to jail!--

34: -- to-the-point guidelines for proper Report Writing--

35. --examples of forms used in a PI business environment
(Client Intake sheet, Contracts, Non-compete /
Non-competition agreement,
Confidentially agreement, Independent
Contractor agreement, etc)
THESE ALONE ARE OFTEN
WORTH $$$ TO A NEW BUSINESS!!
Culled from investigators around the country,
so verify if applicable locally to you.
Use for some of their wording, legal
terminology and ideas; modify as needed.

36. --the correct employee tax terms, and sample tax forms,
that most new businesses are confused by (9 pages)--

37. --verifying eligibility of your employees to work in the US:
the proper federal form to use, and instructions
for its completion & required retention (6 pages)--


38.--case/client management software listings

39: --free help with your first PI business webpage!

40.--information on the #1 book to add to your PI library
(and it's less than $20!)

41. --Homeland Security and a PI licensing bureau developed
a wallet-sized reference for helping to spot that a potential client,
or someone you observe while on surveillance, might be a terrorist.
Included.

42. --How to quickly get a 'social security number' (an E-I-N) for your business,
so you don't have to give out your personal social security
number to your business & government clients)

43. --A firearms section

--and more!--

(Contact us for information about our detailed
Illinois Private Detective licensing
and test preparation package.)

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Some choose the $325
8-pound 'Package B' instead!

Smaller-- but more than 8 pounds,
and more than full-size pages!
Call for the contents of this more compact assistance.

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Yes, we see it every year or two.

Over and over and over, yet another
person who passes the license
test decides to offer 'test prep help'
because he/she passed the test.

Some even took their own IL
license tests only a year or two ago!

(Hey, is that even allowed? How can someone personally take this IL test
themselves and then a year or so later offer to teach others how to pass it?!
On the testing site website it says
"CTS maintains high security standards throughout our operation. 
We have developed systems to safeguard examination and candidate data. 
Confidentiality and examination integrity are
key elements in the CTS business strategy".
Continental Testing Service 800-359-1313 x104 tells
"It is stated at the beginning
of the exam that test-takers agree to not
share anything later with others.
We are looking into this violation". )

Sadly, even if they remembered every
question that was on their test,
that doesn't cover the many other versions of the test.

Their intentions are good, but that's not enough.  So:

Avoid the clowns.
Avoid the phonies.

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Simulated Testing
for the Illinois
Private Detective
licensure exam

Also available is our on-line text that
includes simulated practice license
test questions for the Illinois Private Detective
PI license examination test,
a simulator to a computer-testing as it
advises the time limitations to answer each.

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FlashCards

Also available as a supplement to our packages are our
FlashCards of vocabulary and practice
license test questions for the Illinois
Private Detective PI license examination test.
Pocket-sized as to study anywhere you go,
they include instructions for studying
them using the 'Leitner System'
(a proven way of increasing the retention of data from flash cards).
These are NOT generic 'nationwide' PI flashcards!

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(All questions on these examinations are multiple choice with
one correct answer; choose the BEST answer to each question.
These questions are provided for information purposes only; questions much like these
will be on the tests, but none of these questions will be repeated on the examinations.)


1. Which of these is NOT an element of robbery?
A. Threatening the imminent use of force
B. Permanently depriving another of property
C. Using force in the presence of another person
D. Taking property in the presence of another person

2. Which of these is a written order from a court directed to a peace officer, or to
some other person specifically named, commanding that a person be placed under arrest?
A. A writ of habeus corpus
B. A summons
C. A subpoena
D. A warrant

3. The Illinois Constitution guarantees that a person may be imprisoned
for failure to pay a criminal fine only when which of the following occurs?
A. The person has failed to file an appeal.
B. The person has been convicted of fraud.
C. The person has willfully failed to make payment.
D. The person is six months behind in an installment plan for repayment.

4. A firearms training course
A. must be taught by an instructor and in a school with approval
from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
B. must be taught by a licensed private detective or private security contractor.
C. may be waived if the applicant has any military experience.
D. must be completed by all detective and security personnel.

5. Which of these is the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation authorized
to do when it becomes aware of an individual who is not practicing in accordance with
the act and rules governing private detectives and private security contractors?
A. Suspend a license immediately followed by a hearing within 30 days
B. Petition the circuit court in the county where the individual resides to
impose fines and penalties for each day the licensee continues to practice
C. Issue a warrant for the arrest of the individual for violation of the act and rules
D. Subpoena the individual and all agency employees to appear at a hearing that must be held within 10 business days

6. Who is eligible to be authorized to operate eavesdropping equipment?
A. Only active duty law enforcement officers
B. Any retired or active duty law enforcement officer
C. Any licensed private detective or security contractor
D. A retired law enforcement officer who is certified by the Illinois State Police

7. Which of the following does NOT appear on an agency employee's identification card?
A. The date of issuance
B. The employee's date of licensure
C. The signature of the person's employer
D. A personal description of the employee

8. How many employees must a registered agency have to be licensed and regulated
under the act and rules governing private detectives and private security contractors?
A. One
B. Two
C. Five
D. Ten

9. Which of these accurately describes the consequence of failing to notify the
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation of a change of address?
A. The employee registration cards of all agency employees expire immediately after the change of address.
B. The agency’s license automatically expires 30 days after the change of address.
C. The individual’s license is suspended 90 days after the change of address.
D. Practicing with an expired license may result in disciplinary action.

10. The characteristic appearance of asphyxia victims will be noted in what portion of the body?
A. Internal organs
B. Extremities
C. Face
D. Chest

11. Which of these refers to statements made during the commission of an offense?
A. Dying declarations
B. Res gestae declarations
C. Inadmissible declarations
D. Nolo contendere declarations

12. Which of these is most essential in a fixed surveillance?
A. Constant communication
B. Long-term memory
C. Patience
D. Agility

13. Which of the following exploits the greed of a victim?
A. Pigeon drop swindle
B. Bank examiner swindle
C. Ignorance swindle
D. Internet phishing

14. Which of the following is LEAST important in managing a case involving informants?
A. Keep documented records of when payments are made to the informant.
B. Offer the informant's services to other investigators.
C. Conduct frequent reviews of the informant's activities.
D. Complete a background check on each informant.

15. How does the Ballistic Identification System help improve investigation of cases involving firearms?
A. By speeding up fingerprint comparisons
B. By testing for atomic absorption discharge
C. By consolidating firearm ownership records
D. By cataloging crime scene firearm evidence

16. Which of these is LEAST important in the security assessment for a personnel department?
A. Who has access to personnel files and records?
B. How are computerized personnel records stored?
C. Are payroll records managed by an outside contractor?
D. Can computer files be accessed from remote locations?

17. Which of the following is the best example of applying a tort law?
A. Armed robbery
B. Residential burglary
C. Malicious prosecution
D. Sexual assault




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Including datasheets of:
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--When is the Employer liable for Sexual Harassment?
--Methods to reduce or prevent Sexual Harassment
--What is 'Quid Pro Quo' Sexual Harassment?
--What is 'Hostile Workplace Sexual Harassment'?
--Federal government-issued information about sexual harassment
--Sexual harassment training of your company supervisors
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