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Private Investigator and Detective Agency - Salgado Investigations offering commercial, corporate and private investigation services (infidelity - cheating husband and wife) specialising in surveillance, fraud investigation, process server, computer forensics and other private detective services worlwide
Our private investigators are fully trained, discreet and follow regular refresher courses on changes to legislation and investigative practices. Your professional private investigator will also use the most up to date surveillance techniques to help reduce consumer fraud, prevent losses and tracing people.
All of our private investigators are professionally trained having come from a military, police or commercial investigative background.
Our private investigators use only the latest techniques and tools and have access to sophisticated equipment including surveillance and observation vans, motorbikes and cars.
Our observation vans are equipped with the latest zoom, pan, tilt CCTV and photographic equipment.
We are one of the few private investigator agencies that have access to both male and female private investigators from a variety of ethnic backgrounds.
What is a Private Investigator?
Private Investigators have been around since time immemorial, whenever someone has needed to find someone, or to watch someone, a private investigator has been used. A private investigator is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigations. MORE?
Corporate Investigations - Salgado are specialist corporate investigators
September 16th, 2008
Do you suspect that your business may already be suffering as a result of staff theft? Have you been a victim of employee theft or fraud before and want to ensure that your next new staff member is honest?
The Stark Facts
* Nearly a quarter of UK small businesses will suffer employee theft or fraud.
* 53% of unexplained losses are actually the result of staff theft.
Don’t forget that staff dishonesty may have many guises. In the modern technological age it might not be the classic “fingers in the till”. Examples of crimes committed, which we have successfully investigated include the theft of customer data and/or the sale of of the data to third parties. In the case of customer data, it is the business owner who has to demonstrate that they have stringent security measures in place, in line with the Data Protection Act.
Our corporate Investigations department investigators are specialists in preventing employee fraud or theft and if the worst has happened, successfully investigating theft or fraud and ensuring you have sufficient evidence to take appropriate action.
Our specialist corporate investigators can help by;
1 - Thoroughly verifying a new employees employment history.
2 - Supplying covert surveillance services and undercover operatives to establish evidence of theft.
3 - Supplying suitably qualified investigative interviewers to establish the facts in a case.
4 - And ensuring that you have collected evidence in a legal, ethical and effective manner in line with your companies terms and conditions of employment.
We can work closely with your HR department or offer a Human Resource specialist from within our own team to ensure that each employee, and your own business, is treated fairly and ethically.
Lets hope that you never need our services in this respect. But if you do, call us, Salgado Investigations for confidential, effective and fast action.
The surveillance van, the old couple and the police.
February 20th, 2008
There I was parked in a quiet cul-de-sac watching a building across the other side of a T-junction. My colleague is inside a surveillance van parked very close to the buildings front door. I am there purely as backup and to coordinate the job.
The job consisted of following a target to work and I needed to get a few minutes video of them going into the building. Cause it was very foggy, i decided to use the surveillance van close up.
After 10 minutes I decided to move away from the area and went and parked in another street about 2 minutes away. I then get a call from my colleague in the surveillance van whispering, “help, the police are here and they are banging on the van doors”
It was every PI’s worst nightmare and I knew I couldn’t help him. I decided to drive by the van and see what was going on. As I drew level in traffic, I could see a police van and 2 Police Officers walking around the van and peering into the windows. One of the Police officers was talking to an old couple who were pointing at the van and also pointing at the cul-de-sac. I knew then that we must have been seen by them preparing for the surveillance prior to inserting the van in place.
My main concern was to get the van and my colleague out of there with the minimum of fuss and if possible without showing out to the target who as luck would have was at lunch at that present time but who was due to return in minutes.
Many plans were formulated and discarded within seconds as unpracticle and eventually we ended up doing nothing and the police got bored with it and went on to answer a 999 call elsewhere.
My colleague with great presence of mind had curled up into a ball on the floor of the van throughout the event and then managed to take the necessary video when the target returned to the building. He then simply drove out when everything was calm again.
He later told me while we were reviewing the video of the entire incident that the police had been told by the old couple in the cul-de-sac that they had seen 3 men watching the houses with binoculars and then all three had proceeded to get into the back of the van and that they were still in there. The police was overheard telling his controller over the radio that he thought in his opinion that it was a “prelude to a burglary”. Why he thought burglars would hide in a van, i don’t know.
So the lesson here boys and girls of the PI world is always be very aware of the “curtain twitchers”, there’s always one in every street.
How to follow someone from afar
December 25th, 2007
It’s Christmas day here and i am writing this blog from my home office. As I watch TV and catch up on some of my emails, I started to wonder why there’s more surveillance work in the months of September to December than at any other other time?
Obviously as Christmas draws near, relationships that have cracks in them start to become visible and people with suspicions start to fear spending time alone on Christmas day and everyone wants to kiss someone at the stroke of midnight on the 31st of December.
But sometimes it’s best to know where your relationship actually is than to paper over the cracks during these holidays and make a brand new start in the new year.
Surveillance can be an expensive process especially if you are not sure exactly what, where, what time and with whom they are are “bumping nasties”?
And so I recommend that a GPS tracker is used for a few weeks or months before hand to gather that intelligence that will enable the Investigator to intelligently target the subject and gather the footage that is required for your peace of mind.
Flying “spy drone” camera takes to the skies
May 21st, 2007
It’s reminiscent of the Sci-Fi series “Dark Angel” where flying surveillance cameras kept tabs on the down trodden population of a dark future in a big city. Well, it’s here now in Merseyside. Read on - Jorge
The UK’s first police “spy drone” took to the skies today.
The remote control helicopter, fitted with CCTV cameras, will be used by officers in Merseyside to track criminals and record anti-social behaviour.
The drone is only a metre wide, weighs less than a bag of sugar, and can record images from a height of 500m.
It was originally used for military reconnaissance but is now being trialled by a mainstream police force.
The spy plane was launched as a senior police officer warned the surveillance society in the UK is eroding civil liberties.
Ian Readhead, deputy chief constable of Hampshire Police, said Britain could face an Orwellian situation with cameras on every street corner. However, senior officers in Merseyside, who are trialling the drone, said they did not believe it was the next phase in creating a Big Brother society.
Assistant chief constable Simon Byrne said: “People clamour for the feeling of safety which cameras give.
“Obviously there is a point of view that has been expressed but our feedback from the public is anything we can do to fight crime is a good thing.
“There are safeguards in place legally covering the use of CCTV and the higher the level of intrusion, the higher the level of authority needed within the police force to use it. So there is that balance there.”
Police said the drone is expected to be operational by June and will be given a three-month trial.
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