4 New Advanced Private Investigator Courses, Now Open for Enrollment

We are excited to announce four new advanced private investigator courses, now open for enrollment at StriderPI Academy.

If you've completed S.P.I.T. and earned your certificate, you've already taken an important step toward building your career as a private investigator. You've learned the fundamentals, put in the work, and built a solid foundation.

But that's really just the beginning. The next step is figuring out where you want to take those skills. Maybe you're interested in surveillance. Maybe you'd like to take on fidelity investigations, missing persons cases, or eventually work on cold cases.

These are very different types of investigations, but they all require something beyond the basics: practical experience and specialized training.

That's why we've added four new advanced courses to the StriderPI Academy lineup.

Each course is a focused, two-day intensive designed to get you out of the lecture mindset and into the work. You'll work through realistic scenarios, practice the skills, and learn from instructors who have experience handling these types of cases.

In other words, we're not just going to tell you how it's done. We're going to give you a chance to do it.

Here's a look at what's now available.

4 New Advanced Private Investigator Training Courses:

Surveillance Training for Texas PIs — Mastering Surveillance

(STR-SV-101) 2-Day Intensive

Fixed. Mobile. Foot. Every case you'll ever take starts with somebody watching somebody else, and most rookies are bad at it — not because they're not smart, but because nobody ever made them do it four times in two days with someone watching *them*. We will. Plan the op, run the tail, write it up, do it again. By the time you leave, surveillance isn't a chapter you read. It's a thing you've done.

Learn more about our Texas private investigator surveillance training to build practical surveillance skills in the field.

Fidelity Investigation Training

(STR-FI-101) 2-Day Intensive

Somebody's going to call you about their spouse. It's one of the highest-demand, highest-paying corners of this business, and it's also the fastest way to end up in a bad situation if you don't know what you're doing — legally, ethically, or otherwise. This course covers the call, the contract, the fieldwork, and the hard conversation at the end where you hand someone evidence that changes their life. We also fold in a Workers' Comp briefing at no extra cost, because the skills overlap and there's no reason to make you pay twice to learn them.

Explore our fidelity investigation training for private investigators and learn the skills needed to handle these sensitive cases professionally.

Homicide & Cold Case Investigation Training

(STR-HC-101) 2-Day Intensive · In-Person Course

This one's not for everybody, and it shouldn't be. Families run out of people willing to keep looking long after the department has moved on. This course teaches you where the legal line sits — what you can do, what you can't, how to work *with* law enforcement instead of around them — and then puts you on a live cold case exercise so you know what it actually feels like before a real family is counting on you. Two full days, in person, no shortcuts.

Learn more about our homicide and cold case investigation training and develop practical investigative skills for complex cases.

Missing Persons Investigation Training

(STR-MP-101) 2-Day Intensive

Missing person or a rescue — that's the first question, and getting it wrong can cost someone their life or your license. We start with the legal line, then get into OSINT for locates, the field work that backs it up, and on Day Two you're not watching anymore — you're working five real-world-style cases in small teams, start to finish.

Explore our missing persons investigation training and learn practical techniques for conducting professional locate investigations.

Prerequisite: S.P.I.T. Comes First

All four of these build on what you learn in S.P.I.T. It's the foundation. These are what you build on top of it.

If you've already got your BASIC course behind you and you're ready for the next one, get in touch — we'll get you into a seat.

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