Detective

:To see the article about the Nintendo game, see Gumshoe (video game).

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A detective is

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• an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations,
• in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants),
• a civilian licensed to investigate information not readily available in public records (a private investigator, also called "P.I." or, in a pun on "private i.", private eye), or
• informally and primarily in fiction, any unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.
 
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