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Our History
Investigation
Education Consultants, Inc. Company History:
 Investigation
Education Consultants, Inc. (IEC) is a Florida based corporation
whose sole mission is to provide consulting services to educational
institutions, offering students a certificate or degree in
professional investigation or security management.
The principals of the corporation are Rory McMahon and Steve
Mallon.
Rory McMahon is
a former U.S. Probation and Parole Officer in the Southern
District of New York and the Southern District of Florida.
He supervised organized crime figures in both jurisdictions.
Rory has been a licensed private investigator in Florida for
fifteen years. He is a Certified Legal Investigator, a distinction
held by just over one hundred investigators worldwide. He
is also a Board Certified Criminal Defense Investigator (CCDI),
a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified International
Investigator (CII) and a Florida Certified Investigator (FCI).
Rory is the author of two textbooks on the subject of investigation,
Fraud Investigation, and Practical Handbook for
Private Investigators. He is the owner of McMahon and
Associates Detective Agency, a licensed private investigation
agency located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He was a founding
father of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators
(FALI), and has served on the boards of FALI, the South Florida
Investigators Assoc. (SFIA), and the National Association
of Legal Investigators (NALI). He was the Department Chair
of the Private Investigation Services Program at City College
from 1992 thru 1997. He presided over the growth of the program
from one to three campuses. While an instructor, he authored
most of the textbooks used to teach the classes.
Steve Mallon was
an Ohio police detective. He is the former two-term President
of the South Florida Investigators Association, the oldest
organization of investigators in the state. In 1988 he created
the first academic, collegiate level private investigation
course in the State of Florida. The course was placed on the
campus of City College, a proprietary career school in Fort
Lauderdale. In 1990, the Private Investigation Services program
was approved by the Florida Department of State, Division
of Licensing, and graduates were given a one-year reduction
in the mandatory two-year internship. In 1990, the course
was accredited by the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges
and Schools (ACICS), as an Associate of Science (AS) degree-granting
program of study. For the last fourteen years, the course
has been enormously successful and is taught on four college
campuses in Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Gainesville).
Steve was the program’s first instructor, first department
chair and first statewide program administrator. In March
2004, Steve left the college to pursue his one and only interest:
Educating and training private investigators, using his method
of instruction. For the next seven months, Steve worked to
completely revise the PI program with new material, new textbooks,
and a powerful new direction. The program consists of nine
core courses, which are well suited to certificate or degree,
and are formatted for traditional classroom or distance learning.
All materials for the course were submitted for U.S. copyright
in July 2004.
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