Dean Beers


Biography

Dean A. Beers, CLI is a Certified Legal Investigator and expert in criminal defense homicide and civil equivocal death investigations. He is certified in Medicolegal Death Investigation and served as a forensic autopsy assistant. He has lectured and authored multiple articles, peer-reviewed white papers, and provided expert testimony on Protocols of Private Investigation, and Forensic Investigation of Injury Pattern Analysis. He authored Professional Locate Investigations and recently completed Practical Methods for Legal Investigations: Concepts and Protocols in Civil and Criminal Cases, released by CRC Press in February 2011.

Mr. Beers is the Board Chairman of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado, Region 6 CLI Representative of the National Association of Legal Investigators and has a column called Forensic Focus in The Legal Investigator, NALI's trade magazine, Region 5A Director (CO, WY, NE & AZ) of the National Council of Investigation and Security Services, Affiliate Consultant member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, and holds additional memberships in the World Association of Detectives, International Association for Identification, and Mensa USA.

He began his investigative career in 1987 and operates his agency, Forensic Investigators of Colorado LLC, with his wife, Karen, also a legal investigator and certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations. They have two daughters, a granddaughter and identical twin grandsons.

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Books

Professional Investigations: Associates in Forensic Investigations LLC Best of 2011    by Dean Beers
Price: $30.00 USD. 42290 words. Published on April 26, 2012. Nonfiction.

The best of articles published by AFI-LLC through 2011. Includes over a dozen articles from ethics to investigative protocols to the unusual considerations during the investigative process. Resources including recommended books, educational and professional development, and resources to improve your business performance and operations.
Professional Investigations: Ethical Considerations for the Professional Investigator    by Dean Beers
Price: Free! 4600 words. Published on February 12, 2012. Essay.

The value and importance of our professional ethics cannot be overstated. Ethics are often seen as morals, they are not, though one will impact the other. Morals behavioral guides that are personal and individualistic. Ethics are rules of behavior for an individual through a group – such as an association or profession.
Professional Investigations: Individual Locates, Backgrounds and Assets & Liabilities    by Dean Beers
Price: $35.00 USD. 56520 words. Published on January 26, 2012. Nonfiction.

This is an expanded and revised update to the 2006 original 'Professional Locate Investigations'. This is a simple, straight to the point, guide to learning to conduct any type of skip tracing investigation, and use those skills and resources to also conduct any type of background records check or investigation, as well as assets & liabilities records check or investigation.

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