All Posts Tagged With: "Private Investigation"
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 [...]
5Mar2010 | Paul Jaeb | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
5Mar2010 | TW Person | 0 comments | 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
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 [...]
American Private Investigator Podcast: The Importance of Diversification
The February 2010 podcast of The American Private Investigator with your host, Paul Jaeb, focuses on the importance of diversifying your business, the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI), upcoming industry events such as the World Investigators Conference and others, the affect the the Massachusetts’ special election, the FTC and privacy issues, ISPLA’s new professional [...]
25Jan2010 | Paul Jaeb | 0 comments | Continued
Property Title Forensics
Real estate title records are a valuable source of investigative intelligence. By going beyond a simple “title search”, an investigator can discover factual data and intangible patterns which cannot be found elsewhere. True title research goes beyond just a database search of online or electronic title records. Obtaining the actual physical documents for examination takes [...]
7Jan2010 | David Pelligrinelli | 0 comments | Continued
Indigent Criminal Defense Cases in January American Private Investigator Podcast
The January podcast of The American Private Investigator with host, Paul Jaeb, covers criminal defense and how to gain valuable experience with indigent defense cases, networking, list services, marketing, client appreciation, value add services, upcoming events and resources, and the latest on recent legislation affecting private investigators and security professionals.
The January podcast can be listened to [...]
The Security, Compatibility and Portability of Your Investigative Reports
First, It is never wise to send an editable document or investigative report to a client; if you MUST send it in MS Word then you should protect the document from any unauthorized edits or changes. If you are using MS Word 2003 or later, click on “Tools” in the toolbar and select “Protect Document” [...]
7Jan2010 | Scott Harrell | 1 comment | Continued
Pretext: An Essential Recognized Investigative Technique
Recently the media reported on a $1.8 million verdict in an invasion of privacy lawsuit in Cook County, Illinois. The plaintiff, involved in litigation against her former employer, became the subject of a private investigation by a detective agency hired by her former employer, a defendant in the action. Some of the facts are like [...]
22Dec2009 | ISPLA | 3 comments | Continued
New Online Continuing Education Course for Private Investigators
PIEducation.com, the market leader in continuing education for private investigators, added a new online course to their course catalog called, “An Investigator’s Guide to Professional Forensic Photography” written by veteran crime scene investigators Michael LaForte and Michael Knox of Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc.
Photography skills are an integral part of an investigator’s job. Discover how to [...]
ISPLA Represents Industry at Congressional Briefing on Indigent Criminal Defense
Peter Psarouthakis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Investigators & Security Professionals for Legislative Action (ISPLA) testified on behalf of the investigative industry on December 14th at critical hearings held in Detroit, Michigan.
He provided comments to both the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Briefing on Solutions to the Indigent Defense Crisis and the Michigan House [...]
The American Private Investigator December Podcast is Posted
The December 2009 podcast of The American Private Investigator with your host, Paul Jaeb, gives you the inside scoop from leading investigators about the latest in educational resources, equipment, upcoming events, recent changes in legislation that affect the way private investigators perform their jobs, and reveals fraud and asset recovery best practice resources. The December [...]
14Dec2009 | Paul Jaeb | 0 comments | Continued
When Does Surveillance Become Stalking?
Surveillance is a critical skill for any private investigator (PI). In our investigative agency, over half our cases, from criminal defense to personal injury, require some degree of surveillance. For PIs who specialize in insurance or infidelity investigations, surveillance can be the bulk of their work.
Sometimes the issue arises of when legal, permitted surveillance crosses [...]
A Private Investigator’s Many Roles
“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” -from As You Like It by William Shakespeare
As I prepared to send this article an article in the Los Angeles Times made my case. If you Google the LA Times and search for “Crashers” you will see what a determined and [...]
