the association of british investigators limited
London
The year was 1913 when a retired Scotland Yard detective by the name of Harry
Smale laid the first foundation stone of what is the Association of British
Investigators we know today. Little would Mr Smale have known that his meeting
with a group of other London private detectives, and their decision to form the
British Detectives Association would one day become the UK's leading
organization to represent professional investigators in the private sector. The
purpose and objectives back in 1913 are quoted as follows: "To promote and
protect the interests of members and their relations with each other and with
their employees, to reform abuses, to improve and purify detective methods, to
guard against imposition and fraud by such persons as do not meet their
obligations, also to seek national and international business in the name of the
Association and apportion same amongst it's members. To make it a clean
profession by our example and endeavor to purge it of undesirables"
