Archive for July, 2009
Preventing and Treating Dog Bites While on Assignment
While on assignment, whether you are an investigator, process server, on a repossession job or enforcing bail, it is not uncommon to have a less-than-pleasant encounter with “man’s best friend.” Just last week I was serving some documents at a residence and I was greeted in the yard by a very large pit bull… lucky [...]
The Can’t Miss Private Investigator Conference of 2009 is in Tampa, Florida!
Register soon as the special room rate is set to expire! Check out the speakers lined up… this is THE PI conference of the year! Title: The Florida Association of Private Investigators, Inc. (FAPI) 2009 Annual Litigation and Investigators Conference Location: Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, FL Link out: Click here Description: The Florida Association of [...]
Bodyguard or Bullet Magnet?
When you conjure up the image of a bodyguard, do you see the typical dark suited, sunglass wearing athlete with the curly wire sticking out of his ear? Or perhaps you envision the rough looking former spec ops guy wearing BDU’s and the fashionable tan equipment vest over his short sleeved shirt which was supposedly [...]
Service of Process on Law Enforcement Officers Goes Online
Collier County, Florida is joining Lee, Hendry and Glades counties with high-tech subpoena delivery. By the end of the year, Collier County hopes to launch CJIS Notify, the new electronic subpoena system used to serve process on law enforcement officers. The new system is reportedly very efficient and cutting costs and saving a whole lot [...]
Buried Deep in Data? New Search Options Can Help
It could have happened to any insurance company at any time. Joe, not his real name, claimed he was disabled after a one-car accident. No one else was involved. Who’s to say he was wrong? Joe had the paperwork. His story sounded real. But that’s when Michele Stuart got involved. She’s been a private investigator [...]
Private Security: Society’s Largest Source of Protection
Private citizens and private officers performing security duties form society’s largest protective force. Their impact is felt daily and often is the back story of historic headlines, like the successful evacuation done by World Trade Center security staff after the planes struck September 11th, 2001. Citizens from backgrounds as varied as retirees to homemakers to [...]
City of New Orleans Paid Claims Contractor Using an Unlicensed PI
In a less-than-shocking news article by Times Picayune Reporter, David Hammer, the City of New Orleans again finds itself in the center of a fraud and ethics scandal as it comes to light that the city has paid its third party claims administrator in excess of $522,000 over the last two years to retain the [...]
