Surveillance: A Story from the Field

We got an assignment to drive up north close to the state line to work a surveillance involving a guy who was working light duty a few hours a day, two or three days a week because he had been injured on the job.  He worked for a small manufacturing company near the edge of [...]

TW Person | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

March 2010 American Private Investigator Podcast: Property Titles and Indigent Criminal Defense

The March 2010 podcast of The American Private Investigator with your host, Paul Jaeb, digs into property title forensics research methods and the types of patterns typically revealed, ISPLA’s recent activity with indigent criminal defense issues, positive feedback on ISPLA’s liability insurance program, coverage of the recent NALI Midwinter Conference, upcoming industry event dates and [...]

Paul Jaeb | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

Practical Marketing Tips for the Practical Private Investigator

Probably now more than any other time over the last several years, private investigators and process servers are required to become their own cheerleaders.  In good economic times, the professionals in these fields have concentrated on surveillance, skips, and other related areas of operations and those services sold themselves.  But with times being lean everywhere, [...]

Dale Seward | February 16th, 2010 | Continued

Milo Powell, PI: A Private Investigator’s Collection of True Stories

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to try your hand at private investigation, or if you are interested in some of the things an actual PI might come across in his or her travels, there’s a book out for you.  In addition to finding long lost loved ones or spying on [...]

TW Person | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

The IRB Advantage: New Products, New Services, New Benefits

TALLAHASSEE, FL, February 8, 2010 – IRB has announced The IRB Advantage — a benefit package offering everything from online continuing education and social networking to discounted surveillance equipment and employment postings.  Effective immediately, customers have access to the following products and services:  IRBsearch, IRBtraining, IRBexchange, IRBstore, IRBmedia, PIeducation, and Pursuit Magazine.
“Our goal has always [...]

Scott Harrell | February 17th, 2010 | Continued

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ISPLA Legislative Update

Rep. Charles B. Rangel [D-NY-15] has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a leave of absence from his position as chairman of powerful Committee on Ways and Means due to recent findings of the House Ethics Committee.  Congressman Rangel, 79, a twenty term member of Congress, has long been regarded as one of its [...]

5Mar2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued

Private Investigator Databases: What the GLBA Really Means to You

In the mid-1990s to early 2000’s, we entered an era when the “Information Age” precipitated a shift in the private investigations industry then made up largely of “Gumshoe Investigators” to one whose population was being replaced by a new age of “Internet Investigators.” Database companies were just starting to come online and I remember gaining [...]

3Mar2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued

PIeducation.com “Name our New Course” Contest Winner Announcement!

As announced in January, we’ve written a brand new surveillance course for PIeducation.com but Scott and I had not come up with a title that worked. Since then, you’ve Facebooked, you’ve commented and you’ve emailed us…  now it’s time for us to deliver on our promise for the PIeducation.com “Name our New Course” contest!
I am [...]

24Feb2010 | Stephanie Mitchell | 0 comments | Continued

The Online Magazine for Investigators has come to the Smartphone!

With a single click, mobile smartphone users will now see a fast-loading, cell phone friendly view of Pursuit Magazine when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Nexus One, Opera Mini mobile, Palm Pre or BlackBerry touch mobile device.  You need not do anything except to visit our website, http://pursuitmag.com, from your touch enabled [...]

22Feb2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued

The Dream Tide, a Supernatural Thriller by Author Scott Schlefstein

The famed psychic Sylvia Brown has nothing on Schlefstein’s Nate Abbot, a former cop turned private investigator. Nate’s supernatural dreams plague him, especially when tragedy looms for his own friends and family. He longs for a way of escape­, a personal redemption ­that would end the dreams, which began when he was a teenager. He’s [...]

22Feb2010 | Scott Schlefstein | 1 comment | Continued

Deterring Unfriendly Dogs While on Assignment

We all know that encountering dogs can be a problem while working in the field; I’ve had many unfriendly canine confrontations while working bail enforcement and private investigation assignments  and while process serving.  In many rural areas, you just cannot avoid dogs on the loose altogether.  Stephanie Mitchell wrote an excellent article about preventing and [...]

10Feb2010 | Scott Harrell | 2 comments | Continued

The Power of Using a Badge

A bail enforcement agent stops at a ranch in Texas, and talks with an old rancher.
He tells the rancher, “I need to search your ranch for a bail jumper I believe is hiding on your property.”
The rancher says, “Okay, but do not go in that field over there.” as he points out the location.
The fugitive [...]

9Feb2010 | Scott Harrell | 2 comments | Continued

Pursuit Magazine Celebrates its Second Birthday!

Pursuit Magazine celebrates its second birthday today…
Well… Happy Birthday to us!
But where has the time gone? No, really… where has it gone?
Pursuit was initially an informal “e-zine” (an electronic magazine circulated via email) created just two years ago in an effort to offer outstanding information to PIEducation.com clients and staying in touch with them [...]

3Feb2010 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued

A Culture of Infidelity?

Part 1: The Question
Do some settings tolerate, if not outright encourage, infidelity?
This idea knocked on our door last year. We had a couple of infidelity cases in an affluent suburb. On more than one occasion, independent cases from different clients, the team wound up sitting in the parking lot of the same fitness [...]

2Feb2010 | Thomas H. Humphreys | 2 comments | Continued