Investigation

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Investigation or Investigations may refer to:

Law enforcement

  • Investigation, the work of a detective
  • Investigation, the work of a private investigator
  • Criminal investigation, the study of facts, used to identify, locate and prove the guilt of an accused criminal
  • Criminal investigation department, the branch of British Police force to which plainclothes detectives belong
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary investigative arm of the US Department of Justice
  • Tax investigation

Medicine

  • Clinical trial, an investigation conducted to collect data for new drugs or devices
  • Investigational New Drug, a category in a USFDA program
  • Outbreak Investigation

Science and maths

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

  • The Investigation, a 1959 book by Stanisław Lem
  • The Investigation (play), a 1965 play by Peter Weiss

Television

  • "Investigations" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager
  • Investigation (TV channel), a Canadian French-language specialty channel
  • The Investigation (TV series), a 2020 six-part Danish TV series
  • Investigation Discovery, a digital cable channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Investigate (magazine), a New Zealand current affairs magazine
  • Investigation (film), a 2006 Bulgarian drama
  • Investigative journalism, the practice of in-depth reporting or analysis
  • Temporal Investigations, an agency of the government of the United Federation of Planets in the fictional universe of Star Trek

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Investigation
  • Background investigation, an investigation into an individual's past
  • Congressional investigation, an inquiry run by a congressional committee
  • Discovery (observation), the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unrecognized as meaningful
  • Examination (disambiguation)
  • Forensic science, in fields such as accounting, science, engineering and information technology
  • Investigator (disambiguation)
  • Research
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