Private Investigator (PI)
A licensed professional engaged to collect information, conduct surveillance, and provide factual reporting for individuals, businesses, or legal entities. While independent of law enforcement, PI’s operate within the boundaries of applicable laws and regulations, often serving as a bridge between private concerns and judicial processes.
1. Core Duties
Missing Persons and Asset Recovery: Tracing individuals or locating concealed property.
Surveillance Operations: Monitoring subjects discreetly, documenting activities, and producing photographic or written evidence.
Background Verification: Conducting checks on employment, criminal history, financial records, or personal associations.
Legal Support: Assisting attorneys by locating witnesses, serving legal documents, and preparing evidence for trial.
Fraud and Corporate Investigations: Identifying theft, fraud, or misconduct within organizations; protecting intellectual property.
2. Purpose of Engagement
Retained to:
- Confirm suspicions of fraud, misconduct, or infidelity
- Provide clarity in complex disputes
- Support litigation with admissible evidence
- Conduct skip tracing to locate someone
- Conduct background checks to uncover information not available in basic online searches
- Go Under Cover to access environments that require discretion and gather unbiased, real‑time evidence
- Verify facts before paying out large Insurance claims and protect against fraud
- Conduct surveillance to document the truth as it actually happens
3. Types of Investigations
- Background Investigations
- Child Custody Cases
- Criminal History Searches
- Domestic Related Cases
- Due Diligence Searches
- General Liability Investigations
- General Security Assessments
- Legal Support / Testimony / Criminal Defense
- Location of Witnesses / Skip Traces
- Pre-Employment Evaluations
- Record Searches / Retrieval
- Surveillance
- Video Documentation
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Worker’s Compensation Cases
