Carl Franco - Founder
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
A former police detective, Carl began his law enforcement career at an early age. Awarded with accolades and professional recognition, Carl retired from the public sector to focus on his passion for personal growth and a chance to help the general public and private sector in accessing professional investigation services, where the need was ever-present.
Carl has long been recognized as a leader and pioneer in Canada’s private investigation industry. Today, he divides his time between managing two successful investigation organizations and sharing his expertise with those developing their skills in private investigation.
- Former Police Detective
- Given Special Authority to Search and Seize Without Warrant (Similar to Writ of Assistance)
- Youngest Sergeant on His Force
- Member, International Police Association
- Qualified Insurance Adjuster
- Qualified Insurance Underwriter
- Member of the Ontario Adjusters Association
- Member, Career Colleges Ontario
- Member, National Association of Career Colleges
- Lecturer, York University - Law and You Series
- Sought-after Lecturer and Public Speaker
CARL FRANCO'S BIOGRAPHY
Today, he’s an an experienced private investigator with decades under his belt. But when he joined the police force, Carl Franco was too young to shave. Not that that stopped him. Indeed before long the youthful policeman held the distinction of youngest sergeant on his force. It was the first mark of distinction in a career that was to bring plenty of others.
After an exemplary career in the force that culminated in an outstanding track record and a wealth of accolades, Carl, having reached the rank of detective, retired from his distinguished career to go into private investigation.
Carl’s talent for training the investigators working for him in these and other skills almost made him a victim of his own success – his investigators would take their newly developed proficiencies, honed according to Carl’s
instruction, and use them to set up competing agencies. With the resourcefulness that had by then become a hallmark, Carl turned this state of affairs to his advantage, opening in 1980 Canada’s first training institution for private investigators, the Canadian School of Private Investigation and Security, which is still in operation today.
The school is a natural fit for one as fixed on professional development as Carl Franco. Indeed it is this ethos of professional advancement that led him to undertake the training to become a fully qualified insurance underwriter and expert insurance adjustor – credentials that informed his work within the industry, lending him special insight when it came to serving the needs of insurers.
Later his breadth of knowledge and experience came to benefit the students he lectured in the ‘Law and You’ series at York University.