2024|2025 Ontario Private Investigator Exam | Questions with Complete & Verified Solutions

2024|2025 Ontario Private Investigator Exam | Questions with Complete & Verified Solutions PSISA Correct Answer: Private Security and Investigative Services Act What does PSISA regulate? Correct Answer: Investigative Services and Private Security Industry What section of PSISA regulate the day-to-day activities of private investigators? Correct Answer: Section 34 and 40 How to deal with sensitive information? Correct Answer: Collect, store, disseminate, and destruct What is PIPEDA? Correct Answer: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Devices Act Is PIPEDA Federal, Provincial, or Municipal? Correct Answer: Federal What does PIPEDA govern? Correct Answer: Governs the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information Why is consent needed? Correct Answer: Consent is needed to disclose personal information What regulation outlines what is not subjected to restrictions on personal information? Correct Answer: SOR/2001-7 SOR/2001-7 Correct Answer: list publicly available records like judicial records are not subjected to restrictions on personal information What is FIPPA? Correct Answer: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act What is MFIPPA? Correct Answer: Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act What does FIPPA govern? Correct Answer: The access of records in custody of the provincial government What does MFIPPA govern? Correct Answer: The access of records in custody of municipalities is there a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place? Correct Answer: False is there a reasonable expectation of privacy in a subjects own home? Correct Answer: True What is needed to be aware of when planting a wireless camera? Correct Answer: Whether or not the signal is encrypted and could be intercepted by an unintended source What is the difficulty with a tape being submitted in court? Correct Answer: The original tape should not be altered in any way. what is the best practice to implement with videotaping? Correct Answer: Record without audio When can GPS placed on a car? Correct Answer: When there is consent from the owner. Direct Evidence Correct Answer: Testimony from a person who was a direct witness. Circumstancial evidence Correct Answer: evidence where a fact can be inferred but was not witnessed directly Hearsay Evidence Correct Answer: A witness presents a statement that was made to them from another person who is not present. Admission Correct Answer: Voluntary admissions by an accused Documentary Evidence Correct Answer: Any written thing capable of being made evidence no matter what material it may be inscribed What is deemed at documentary evidence? Correct Answer: Documents, books, photographs, sound recordings, films, videotapes, and computer records. What is the reliably challenges of documentary evidence? Correct Answer: Video Recordings could have unclear sound or imagery, handwriting could be illegible or the condition of a document may be difficult to decipher. An investigator may be asked to conduct surveillance in a civil matter, where there is a dispute between neighbours over a property line. They are required to take photos of the properties. What is the next step? Correct Answer: In such civil proceedings, the investigator would be required to mark the illustrative evidence and log it into a report for future court hearings