Florida Senate - 2025                            (NP)    SR 1848
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-02013A-25                                          20251848__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing July 24, 2025, as “Private
    3         Investigators Day” in Florida.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, July 24 is the birth date of Eugène-François
    6  Vidocq, a one-time soldier and petty criminal who, after helping
    7  to revolutionize policing practices in France under Napoleon,
    8  established a private police agency in 1832 which served as a
    9  prototype for modern detective agencies, and
   10         WHEREAS, July 24 is widely known in the private
   11  investigator community as “PI Day,” and
   12         WHEREAS, there are 8,233 private detectives and
   13  investigators in Florida, giving it one of the country’s highest
   14  levels of employment for the profession, and
   15         WHEREAS, Florida also ranks among the highest in the nation
   16  for the concentration of private investigators, with
   17  particularly high concentrations in such key metropolitan areas
   18  as Miami, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater region, and the
   19  Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach region, and
   20         WHEREAS, the North Florida region stands out for its
   21  significant concentration of private investigators compared to
   22  other nonmetropolitan areas in the United States, NOW,
   23  THEREFORE,
   24  
   25  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   26  
   27         That July 24, 2025, is recognized as “Private Investigators
   28  Day” in Florida.