Detective

A detective is a person who investigates crime. Most detectives are police officers. Some are hired by a private person or company, for example to stop theft. Those are called private investigators. There are many stories about detectives. Some famous fictional (not real) detectives are Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Clouseau, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys.

Detectives will search public and private databases, investigate people and examine evidence in order to solve the case.

Detective Media

Police detectives investigating a homicide in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
H Division, of police detectives, including Frederick Abberline (left, with cane), at Leman Street police station, of the London Metropolitan Police, two years before the Jack the Ripper serial killer murders of 1888. Photograph circa 1886
Allan Pinkerton (pictured here circa 1861) was, in 1850, a detective of the Chicago Police Department and, in 1851, the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Detective escorting gangster Meyer Lansky to the 54th Street police station in New York City in 1958

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