Author Archive: Scott Harrell
10 Tips for Asking Effective Investigative Interview Questions
When communicating with others, asking questions seems to be the least often used skill. This happens for many reasons; we do not want to appear uninformed, overbearing or overly challenging in our quest for the truth. Quite simply, asking questions and pairing them with effective listening skills prevents us from “jumping the gun” or filling [...]
Surveillance by Private Investigators and the Law
The laws pertaining to surveillance can definitely be a legal minefield for private investigators. Our licensing does not bestow any type of extra powers and we are bound by the very same rules relevant to criminal laws as any other private citizen. Before you conduct physical or electronic surveillance you should be competent and well [...]
New State-Required Class Approved for Aspiring Georgia Private Detectives
After many months of hard work I am pleased to introduce a brand new course available at PIeducation.com that may be of interest to your agency, colleagues and “soon to be” private investigators: We are now currently offering the basic training course online to future Georgia private detective license holders and registered private detective employees [...]
New Continuing Education Course Approved for Arizona Process Servers
PIeducation.com is pleased to announce today, February 2, 2012, the formal acceptance by the Supreme Court of Arizona of its applauded continuing education course for process servers titled “Serious Surveillance: Obtaining Evidence that will Stand up In Court” The ability to conduct surveillance/stake outs is by far one of the most important and lucrative skills [...]
Pursuit Magazine Overhauls Information Network with Launch of PursuitWire.com
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Scott Harrell, CompassPoint Investigations ScottH @ compasspointpi (dot) com www.CompassPointPI.com Pursuit Magazine Overhauls Information Network With Launch of PursuitWire.com. January 5, 2012, Pensacola, FL - Pursuit Magazine launched the innovative newswire site, http://pursuitwire.com, on January 1, 2012 in an effort to educate and improve the success rates of members [...]
Happy New Year from Pursuit Magazine!
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – BIll Vaughan TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS Thank you for being a part of Pursuit Magazine and for helping us to make 2011 the BEST year yet for our online publication; we sincerely [...]
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[Video] A Season’s Greeting to You from CompassPoint Investigations!
From the entire staff of Pursuit Magazine, we wanted to say thank you for your support this year and to wish all of you and your loved ones a very Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year! Whether you were naughty or nice this year, we hope that you get everything you want. [...]
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[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool
I’ve been playing with Maltego now for just a few weeks on some very complex business intelligence projects I have going on, and I have to tell you, I am STUNNED by how much information I develop every time I have the opportunity to run new data through it! In fact, I understand that several [...]
