Exclusive: Services Offered By Private Investigators
August 14, 2017 | Other
The field of work for the Private Investigator is virtually unlimited. As police resources become more strained, the need for the services of the Private Investigator increases.
Private Investigation work can be conducted within the country or overseas. The competent and efficient Private Investigator will become known within the industry and his reputation will grow by word of mouth.
Some very skilled Private Investigators work with defense lawyers on capital punishment and criminal defense cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims.
Before the advent of no-fault divorce, many Private Investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce. Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, collecting evidence of adultery or other "bad behaviour" by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes.
Private Investigators can also be used to perform due diligence for an investor who may be considering investing money with an investment group, fund manager or other high-risk business or investment venture. This could serve to help the prospective investor avoid being the victim of a fraud or Ponzi scheme. By hiring a licensed and experienced Private Investigator, they could unearth information that the investment is risky and or that the investor has suspicious red flags in his or her background. This is called investigative due diligence, and is becoming much more prevalent in the 21st century with the public reports of large-scale Ponzi schemes and fraudulent investment vehicles such as the one perpetrated by Madoff in the US.
Private Investigators also engage in a large variety of work that is not usually associated with the industry in the mind of the public. For example, many are involved in process serving, the personal delivery of summons, subpoenas and other legal documents to parties in a legal case. The tracing of absconding debtors can also form a large part of a Private Investigator's work load. Many agencies specialize in a particular field of expertise. For example, some Private Investigation agencies deal only in tracing.
There are a handful of firms that specialize in technical surveillance counter-measures (TSCM), which is the locating and dealing with unwanted forms of electronic surveillance (for example, a bugged boardroom for industrial espionage purposes). This type of niche service is typically conducted by those with backgrounds in intelligence/counterintelligence, executive protection, and a small number from law enforcement entities whose duties included the covert installation of eavesdropping devices as a tool in organized crime, terrorism and narco-trafficking investigations.
Other Private Investigators, also known as Corporate Investigators, specialize in corporate matters, including anti-fraud work, loss prevention, internal investigations of employee misconduct, the protection of intellectual property and trade secrets, anti-piracy, copyright infringement investigations, due diligence investigations and computer forensics work. Some Private Investigators act as professional witnesses where they observe situations with a view to reporting the actions or lack of them to a court or to gather evidence in anti-social behavior
The services of the Private Investigator can be called upon by a wide range of persons. These include particularly the legal profession and corporate industry, such as insurance companies, who may suspect fraud but need to gather the necessary evidence before approaching Police. Many persons have problems that are not a police matter. These could include searching for lost relatives, looking for the whereabouts of debtors, conducting enquiries into the financial status of persons and looking at domestic issues such as the unfaithful wife or husband.
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