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About Tracing

Tracing and research work is at the heart of a significant amount of investigation and detective work. A crime or wrong-doing occurs and the investigator interviews or speaks to people to gather information or evidence with which to trace the person responsible for the crime or the wrong-doing.

Ask the Right Questions

Hopefully if the investigator asks the right people the right questions and the information or evidence is available then ...

We are living in an age of digital and computerised technology and as a consequence modern technology is endemic within our society. There are many different technological gadgets on the market which, in many respects, make our daily life so much easier and in this respect the Private Investigations Industry is no different.

Cutting-edge Technology

Over the past few years technology relating to many things including GPS trackers has improved, has become more readily ...

What is Occupational Fraud?

When an employee feigns illness or injury to obtain paid sick leave, submits inflated or exaggerated overtime claims, or uses company equipment for an unauthorised purpose which may be to operate a private business (parallel trading). All these activities constitute fraud. When this private business competes with the employer’s business, the fraud may also involve theft of ideas and proprietary company information i.e. a list of clients or other intellectual ...

What is Investigative Psychology?

A major and rapidly expanding sub-discipline of Forensic and Criminal Psychology.

Originally developed to provide a scientific approach to ‘offender profiling’, in line with David Canter’s conviction that any contributions made by psychologists to the police or legal process must have an empirical, systematic, scientific basis, Investigative Psychology (IP) has now developed to cover all contributions that psychologists & other social ...

The use of intelligence and intelligence gathering is not new to modern times. History shows that the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu in ‘The Art of War’ written over 2,000 years ago paid particular attention to the use of spies and intelligence.

Spying and intelligence gathering have been used by many Sovereign rulers over the centuries to maintain control of internal political enemies. You only need to consult the activities of the likes of Machiavelli to see these particular processes ...