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Happy New Year!

12/31/2015

New Year’s Resolutions a professional investigator can assist you with

12/28/2015

Locate a long-lost friend or family member: With the proliferation of social media sites and search services like Intelius available on the internet, it would seem that locating a relative or friend is easier than ever. While using these services can be useful, there are more difficult cases and circumstances that a private investigator is a better investment. With access to proprietary search services and practiced techniques (e.g., pre-texting), a private investigator can track down and locate hard-to-find individuals who may be living off the grid. In these tenuous times, where people are more concerned with personal security and privacy, you can protect yourself by using a state-licensed professional who can verify that the person want to be found, thereby protecting yourself from an uncomfortable situation or an claim of illegality (e.g., stalking).
Update company with mobile apps. If you are a business with a mobile sales force or mobile servicing, it is probably time to integrate your financial processing with the various iPhone or Droid apps (for example) that are on the market. However, you must also concern yourself with security. A professional investigator can help assure that your mobile technology is being uses properly. Working, for example, as secret shoppers, a professional investigator can assure that your mobile employees are properly safeguarding important customer data. Should a problem arise, it is important that you can prove due diligence, and a having a private security consultant working with you will certainly help advocate your case to insurance companies or courts. Next month our blog post will be about protecting your company in the world of apps.
Solve a cold crime. If you or your family has been the unfortunate victim of an unsolved crime, you ought to consider hiring a professional investigator with criminal investigation experience to assist you. An experience independent party can help develop new theories, identify new leads, substantiate or refute the sequence of events, interview witnesses to check consistency in statements, conduct forensic analysis using private labs, and so on. Regardless of the severity of crime, a private investigator can provide the focused attention to a crime that policing agencies cannot (usually due to budgetary constraints). Most people do not realize that many high-profile crimes were solved or defended through the efforts of private investigators.
Be proactive. If you’ve been suspecting something in your personal or communal life is not right, perhaps it is time to take proactive measures to find out. If you’ve been suspecting that the person you’ve been dating has a questionable background, it’s time to do a background check. If you suspect that your spouse or partner has been cheating, it’s time to put him or her under surveillance. If you suspect that a local company has been engaged in illegal or unethical behavior that will affect your or your community’s health, well-being, or security, it is time to conduct a civil investigation. If you think that your employees have been stealing from you, it is time to conduct a security assessment of your company. Remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care. The cost of hiring a private investigator may seem high, but if you see it as an investment rather than a cost, then the return will likely be worth it.

If you have questions regarding how a private investigator may be able to help you, please contact Covert Investigations to see how we may be able help you. Our initial telephone consultations, as always, are free.

Best wishes from Covert Investigations

12/24/2015

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year lavish with pleasant surprises, delights, and inspiration for you and your nearest people!

Vehicle protection

12/14/2015

We all know that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.This is a good saying, suitable for any situation in our lives. In this post, we’ll put this maxim to use by discussing vehicle protection from theft, burglary, or vandalism.
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Equipment is important

Covert Investigations uses Gen-3 military grade night vision on all night surveillance. See a demo at:

http://www.covert-pi.com/services.html and
http://www.covert-pi.com/

Gen-3 equipment gives you facial recognition from long distances in the middle of the night and with little to no light.

The Gen-3 equipment is not to be confused with the inadequate night shot feature that comes standard with all video cameras. That video when produced only gives silhouetted images and is useless for evidence purposes.

If you have an assignment at night and you want quality identifiable evidence please call me or search a company that has similar equipment.

If an agency says they have Gen-3 equipment demand it be used and refuse to pay for the assignment if the it is not used. Covert Investigations will never bill a client for failure on our part.

Your evidence is important to your case. Be sure your Investigator has that equipment.

Observations & Interviews, a blog by Chet Engstrom

Chet Engstrom is owner of Covert Investigations Services, a private investigations firm located in Lewisville, Texas (DFW area). Texas license number: C10745.

This blog is update at least monthly.

Some posts are written by Craig Engstrom (www.craigengstrom.info).

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