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Private Investigators by Tyler D Falls

A Private Investigator is a professional trained in the art of investigations and surveillance. Otherwise known as Private eyes or Private eye detectives, these professionals are for hire 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Many investigators have backgrounds in CIA, FBI, military, special forces, police, and government. I assume you all have heard of the famous Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty side-kick detective Watson. They were a type of private investigator. Today's private investigators use modern technology along with investigator training to serve the public and attorneys, police investigations, insurance investigations, and so much more.

Here is a list of the different types of investigations that can be done. Almost all of them are undetectable and non-traceable if done by professionals.

1. Surveillance - monitor someone's every movement.

2. locate a person

3. Track cell phone usage and position

4. Infidelity investigations

5. Find someone's current employer

6. Find a person by a utility company

7. Database record searches / Background investigation - Dig up information like, employment status, civil history, criminal history, medical history and other specific research

8. Child custody disputes - Acquire proof that a person isn't fit for custody.

9. Telephone number investigations

-Non-Published Number -Cell Phone

-Telephone Number

-Disconnected Number

-800/888/877/900 Number

-Pager Trace

10. Internet Surveillance & Monitoring - Find out what sites are being visited by a person, read their emails and forum posts, keylog and more

11. Business Help - Employment screenings, loss prevention, and employee investigations, insurance fraud, tenant screenings.

12. Attorney services

13. Photography and videography - Get pictures and videos of who ever, when ever.

14. Victim assistance - When the police just aren't cutting it for you.

15. Nanny cams/hidden cameras - Make sure you can trust your kids, or caretakers.

16. Trash recovery - Investigate someone's garbage.

17. DNA/Paternity testing

18. Polygraph testing

19. Executive protection (Body guards/ escort services) - Unarmed or armed. High profile, or low profile.

20. Collect child support payments - Cant find the mother or father? Find them and get money that's lawfully yours.

21. Electronic countermeasures, or counter eavesdropping - Make sure your employees or outsiders are not monitoring you!

22. Accident scene investigations

23. Special assignments - Anything else you can think of, Professional Private Investigators can usually do.

(except help kill someone)

There are certain rules one must follow when choosing a personal investigator. When finding a private investigator, make sure they have a private investigators license. Also keep in mind that the work that a private investigator does is strictly confidential and stays between you and them. So if the person you're talking to doesn't guarantee confidentiality, then don't bother talking to them again. Another important thing to keep in mind is that all investigators need to be insured. This way, while they are uncovering information that YOU hired them to, and they happen to harm someone, break, or damage anything, then you are not held liable for compensation. A reputable investigator should have no problem presenting a certificate of insurance coverage for you to review and verify. Finally, make sure you get a contract done up, and you read it very carefully. These things will protect you, and help you find a reliable and trust worthy personal investigators.

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About the Author

Tyler Falls helps run numerous informational sites and also works for a private marketing firm. He's available to hire for advise on anything from vitamins, detox and health related topics to website marketing and promotion. Email Tyler @ tdfalls@gmail.com

A private investigator's life: Under cover and on guard

By David Rattigan, Globe Correspondent | May 21, 2006

In the parking lot of a Salisbury bar, Corinne Ray considered her next move. It was happy hour. Ray had identified the automobile she was looking for, belonging to a wife suspected of infidelity, but the woman was not inside the building.

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As the private investigator sat in her car, the woman in question rolled up on the back of a motorcycle. The woman and her paramour started kissing, and Ray reached for her camera.

The couple seemed ''to have had a few" drinks and too caught up in the moment to care about the apparent soccer mom taking photographs, Ray recalled.

''They kind of looked over at me, but they were focused on what they were doing," she said.

She got her evidence but was reluctant to leave. She was concerned about the wife, who appeared to be in no condition to drive. So Ray parked in the lot next door, ''thinking about what to do next," and didn't notice that the man on the motorcycle had pulled up to her car.

''What are you doing, taking pictures of us?" he asked. ''Was that you over there?"

He was a big guy.

''Your bike is really cool," Ray said, smiling and holding her can of mace discreetly at her side, hoping it wouldn't be needed. ''I was looking at motorcycles for my husband."

Perplexed and possibly flattered, the man rode off.

In this job, you need the ability to think on your feet.

Sophisticated technology, updated surveillance techniques, and new areas of law have changed some parts of the job description, but local private investigators say the profession carries many of the requirements it always has. Along with intellect and fearlessness, a PI needs an inquisitive nature balanced by an instinct for self-preservation.

''I've gone into some really bad areas, to find witnesses for lawyers and locate missing persons," said Ray, 44, who runs Beverly-based North Shore Investigations Inc. The company specializes in missing persons cases, background checks, and witness interviews for civil cases.

''I try to look nonthreatening, which I am, and I think that's an advantage for me," she said.

John Nardizzi, whose work as head of Boston-based Nardizzi & Associates Inc. often takes him to the North Shore, said it's important to be able to defuse situations when a subject is nervous, angry, or doesn't want to talk -- as when he worked on a racketeering case involving young, low-ranking organized crime associates.

''I always try to keep in mind," Nardizzi said, that even if his subjects are threatening him, ''the reason is, they're nervous and upset. I just try to bring it down. The vast majority of the time, I need to rely on my skills and keep the person calm."Continued…

Alleged Police Intimidation Caught On Tape

Man Says He Was Intimidated By Police To Recant Brutality Allegations

Dave Savini
Reporting

(CBS) MARENGO, Ill. "They brought in another person and knocked him out right in front of me and told me that I was going to be next," says Kevin Gaughan while describing what he says happened at the Marengo Police Department.

Gaughan was 19-years-old in 2004 when he says he thought he was at the police department to give a statement about police brutality. Instead, Gaughan says he was intimidated by police and that it was caught on a police department security camera videotape that is now being made public through litigation.

Gaughan says police tried to get him to change his story involving earlier police brutality allegations he made targeting Marengo police officer Scott Crawford. Kevin Gaughan and his brother, Brian, say Crawford used excessive force against them in 2004 during an altercation at a local festival. Gaughan's attorney says they are two of at least five people who have come forward alleging abuse by Scott Crawford.

Gaughn hoped an outside agency, the Illinois State Police (ISP), would investigate their claims.

"They came to my parents house, where I was, and said, 'Why don't you come with us to the Marengo police station to finish up this investigation' and I said okay," but Gaughn says that is when the situation turned ugly. "Once I got inside, they just started yelling and swearing and threatening me."

Gaughan says they were trying to get him to recant the brutality allegations. Says a nervous Gaughn, "They were saying drop the charges. Don't continue this anymore or I am going to be brought up on (more) felony charges and my family is going to be brought up on charges."

CBS 2 examined the videotape, which has no audio. A State Police Special Agent can be seen lifting up a chair, a few feet away from Gaughan and repeatedly shaking it in the air. The same investigator is waving his arms, then holding them behind his back as though he was demonstrating being handcuffed. Gaughn claims the tape shows him being slapped, but law enforcement sources says a bug was being knocked off of him.

"I was terrified, scared," says Gaughan because he says he witnessed a man in custody get knocked out. A handcuffed Orest Hedio was brought into the room where Gaughan was talking to investigators. Gaughan says Hedio tried to give him advice.

"When he came into the police station (Hedio) turned to me and said don't talk to the cops without a lawyer and (officer) punched him the face," claims Gaughan.

The videotape shows a Marengo police officer apparently pushing Hedio. A State Police Investigator gets up from his chair and moves towards Hedio. That's when Gaughan says Hedio was punched. However, law enforcement sources and a police report say the State Police investigator did not hit Hedio and never touched him. They say the one responsible was a Marengo Police Officer. CBS 2 is told while the Marengo Police Officer was pushing Hedio, his head hit the wall and he was knocked out.

In an investigative report, the Marengo officer said Hedio, "...started kicking, and lost his balance, so he took Hedio to the ground to maintain control of him." The officer also said Hedio "... settled down immediately after going to the ground."

On the videotape Hedio never appears to kick the officer, and Hedio also appears to be unconscious once he hit the ground. The officer kicked his feet, removed his shoes and dragged him into a cell. Sources say no medical help was called. Later on the videotape, you can see the officer cleaning up the floor where Hedio fell.

Kevin Gaughan says that after all that he witnessed, he signed a statement recanting his original charges of police brutality. Then, he was charged with filing a false police brutality claim.

"They (police) are lying and ruining lives," says Paul Ciolino a private investigator hired by the Gaughans. "We need to do something about this because the breakdown of this system is that no one is going to have faith in it and no one is going to pay attention to the police."

Scott Crawford, the focus of the Gaughan's brutality claims, resigned from Marengo Police in 2005. This came after a videotape surfaced of him allegedly hitting a handcuffed man in 2001 while working as a Waukegan police officer. Police sources say Crawford failed to list this past abuse allegation and investigation on his Marengo job application.

Hedio and the Gaughans plan on filing seperate lawsuits against the police officers involved. Gaughan's attorney has already filed a motion to appoint an independent prosecutor. None of the law enforcement agencies involved would comment because of pending litigation.

"To me this is police brutality," says the Gaughan's father Brian Gaughan. He explains this two year ordeal has taken a toll on his family, "It's a nightmare. It's a financial nightmare. It's an emotional nightmare. Never in my life have I been afraid to be pulled over by police."

Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments 06/28/2006

James Davis, 53, of El Cajon, has been appointed chair of the Board of Parole Hearings. He has served on the Board since February 2006 and is currently a consultant for Civilian Police International and Citygate Associates. Davis previously served for 30 years in the El Cajon Police Department, beginning as a patrol officer in 1974 and retiring in 2004 after four years as chief of police. He is the co-founder, past president and a board member of the El Cajon Youth Development Advisory Council and a former chair of the Automated Regional Justice Information System Management Committee. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $103,317. Davis is a Republican.

Oscar Hidalgo, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed assistant secretary of Public and Employee Communications in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He has served as director of communications for energy issues in the Department of Water Resources since 2001. Hidalgo previously served as assistant director of External Affairs for the Department of Aging from 2000 to 2001 and director of the Office of Public Affairs and information officer for the Department of Food and Agriculture from 1997 to 2000. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $115,000. Hidalgo is a Democrat.

Bonnie Kolesar, 52, of Woodland, has been appointed assistant secretary of Risk Management in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She has served as associate director of Risk Management Services for the University of California, Davis since 1990. Kolesar previously was claims manager for the City of Fairfield from 1976 to 1990. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $98,508. Kolesar is registered as decline to state.

Colleen Kuhn, 50, of Apple Valley, has been appointed to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services. She has served as deputy sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office since 1988. Previously, Kuhn was a paramedic and firefighter for the Barstow Fire Department from 1984 to 1988, firefighter for the Apple Valley Fire Department from 1982 to 1984 and paramedic and EMT-II for Valley Medical Transport from 1981 to 1984. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Kuhn is registered as decline to state.

Bruce Lee, 50, of Los Altos, has been appointed to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services. He has served as director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for Santa Clara County since 2004. Lee previously was EMS administrator for Sonoma County from 2000 to 2004 and was director of operations for American Medical Response from 1998 to 2000. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Lee is a Democrat.

Edward Martinez, 48, of Modesto, has been appointed as a commissioner on the Board of Parole Hearings. He has been self-employed as a private investigator with EM Investigations since 2005. Martinez previously was a field investigator with the workers' compensation firm Freese & Gianelli from 2000 to 2005, deputy sheriff and detective for the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department from 1992 to 2000 and deputy sheriff for the Orange County Sheriff's Department from 1982 to 1992. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $99,693. Martinez is a Republican.

Steve Stranathan, 50, of Bakersfield, has been appointed to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services. He has served as a realtor for Coldwell Banker since January 2006. Previously, Stranathan was a salesman for California Fiberglass Pools from 2002 to 2005, operations manager for Golden Empire Medical Transportation from 1999 to 2002, messenger and firearms instructor for Brinks Armored Transport from 1997 to 1999 and EMT and marketing director for Golden Empire Ambulance from 1978 to 1992. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no salary. Stranathan is a Republican.

Source: Office of the Governor

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