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Hiring a PI to Catch a Cheating Husband

Friday 20 Sep 2024 - 08:26:44

Hiring a PI to Catch a Cheating Husband Alpha 1 Legal Services, a trusted private investigation firm, offers guidance for individuals suspecting their husbands of infidelity. This podcast explores our services, legal considerations, the investigation process, and the emotional impact of infidelity. We discuss the pros and cons of hiring a private investigator, common signs […]

Hiring a Private Investigator for Infidelity Cases

Saturday 31 Aug 2024 - 12:21:47

  Hiring a private investigator for infidelity cases can provide you with the clarity and evidence needed to understand your relationship’s dynamics. When trust is in question, enlisting a professional can uncover the truth discreetly and effectively. Your peace of mind is paramount, and an experienced investigator knows how to navigate sensitive situations, ensuring your […]

Hiring a Professional Private Investigator

Tuesday 20 Aug 2024 - 09:08:05

  THERES ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO CHARGES LESS. With the complexities of modern life, you may find yourself in need of specialised help, which is where hiring a professional private investigator comes in. I understand that when faced with personal or legal challenges, having a trusted expert by your side can make all the difference. You […]

How Do Private Investigators Find Someone

Saturday 13 Jul 2024 - 06:26:15

  Services of private investigators, like alpha 1 legal services, are often shrouded in mystery. To uncover the truth and locate individuals, they employ a range of techniques. They meticulously sift through public records, conduct interviews with relevant parties, and utilise surveillance methods to track down their target. By combining old-fashioned detective work with modern […]

Private Investigator Near Me Took Down Drug Dealers

Wednesday 19 Jun 2024 - 11:06:14

  There’s a gritty reality to our work as a private investigator. A recent case involving drug dealers on the streets near me tested our skills to their limit. In this blog post, I will take you through the intense investigation that led to the takedown of drug dealers operating in our community. Key Takeaways: […]

How Do Private Investigators Near Me Help in Legal Matters?

Saturday 8 Jun 2024 - 04:48:10

  Private Investigators near me are an asset in legal issues which can be complex and daunting, but with the help of investigators like Alpha 1 Legal Services, navigating through legal matters can become clearer and more efficient. Private investigators can gather crucial evidence, conduct surveillance, locate witnesses, and uncover hidden information that can support […]

Private Investigator Near You

Friday 10 May 2024 - 04:47:56

Finding the Best Private Investigators Near You Are you on the hunt for a reliable and skilled private investigator near you? Look no further! Our ultimate guide is here to help you find the best private investigators in your area, putting your mind at ease and getting you the answers you need. Finding the right […]

Private Investigator In Southampton Solves Two Cases

Saturday 12 Dec 2015 - 11:39:36

Our private investigator in Southampton has been busy. In this case study we are going to tell you about two different tasks received by the team. Both of them involve cheating spouses. You will see that the investigations were carried out using different private investigation techniques. Case No 1 In the first case our private investigator in […]

Private Investigator In Derby Catches A Charity Thief

Friday 20 Nov 2015 - 10:01:03

Our private investigator in Derby was surprised when they got a call from a local charity shop. As we all know charity shops receive donations of not just money but clothes, furniture and other items too. The charity shop in question (which our private investigator in Derby was asked to look into) takes in all […]

Private Investigator In Bedford Catches A Cheat

Friday 13 Nov 2015 - 12:56:56

It is a regular occurrence for our private investigator in Bedford to be asked to carry out infidelity investigations. We have selected a case from a few weeks ago to tell you about today. A higher proportion of our infidelity cases are brought by women. In this case it was a man. (Let’s call him […]

Private Investigator In Sunderland Tackles Employee Dishonesty

Friday 6 Nov 2015 - 10:19:50

Our private investigator in Sunderland has been deploying vehicle tracking devices. Why? You ask. Well, let me tell you. The austerity measures have hit the whole country hard, especially in the North East of England. Our private investigator in Sunderland received a call from the senior manager of a Human Resources team of a well-known local business. She […]

Private Investigator In Carlisle Tackles Noise Pollution Successfully

Friday 30 Oct 2015 - 10:54:52

The Alpha 1 Legal Services Private Investigator in Carlisle reports to our head office on a monthly basis. As normal they sent us their end of month report. As we reviewed the statistics from last month against previous months, we noticed that there had been a change. There has been an increase in requests for our […]

Private Investigator in Durham Tackles Anti Social Behaviour

Monday 26 Oct 2015 - 09:40:35

Alpha 1 Legal Services private investigator in Durham is finding that they are getting more and more work as evidence gatherers for cases about antisocial behaviour. The increased demand for this type of service could be as a result of massive policing cuts. Our private investigator in Durham was asked to collect evidence on a rundown […]

Private Investigator In Middlesbrough Helps To Find A Missing Person

Friday 25 Sep 2015 - 12:41:28

Alpha 1 Legal Services’ Private Investigator in Middlesbrough is regularly asked to locate missing people, this case study is about such a case. Quite a few years ago, the family and friends of a woman from Middlesbrough had become concerned that she wasn’t answering her phone and she hadn’t been seen around the local area for […]

Private Investigators in Ireland

Friday 5 Jun 2015 - 09:02:00

Private investigators in Ireland, and people who use them will have to be even more careful as the need for a Private Investigator licence becomes law in November. In Ireland the Private Security Authority (PSA) will be the overseers of the private investigation industry. They are already responsible for licensing the security industry with licences being […]

Private Investigator for Surveillance

Friday 29 May 2015 - 12:22:49

A story released by ABC news earlier this month tells how a private investigation company used their skills to catch a farmer who had been scamming an insurance company that had been paying his workers comp claim. It only took four hours of surveillance for the private investigator to get video footage of the farmer […]

Private Investigators & Cheating Husbands

Friday 22 May 2015 - 02:17:46

When most people think of private investigators they think of someone who is always trying to catch a cheating husband or wife. Although there is often much more to a private investigator’s job, it is still the case that matrimonial matters are still the bread and butter jobs for most private investigators. It could be […]

Counter Surveillance

Friday 15 May 2015 - 10:26:41

Counter surveillance techniques form a major part of any professional private investigators toolkit, whether they include expensive and new technology or just the private investigator using his or her streetwise skills. In this post we will be looking at why and how this is the case. Needing to avoid being noticed by the target: Counter surveillance. […]

Private Investigators & Data Recovery

Friday 1 May 2015 - 09:00:12

Data Recovery and Private Investigators Data recovery techniques are a specialist skill honed by professional private investigators. We should all know by now that posting on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and the myriad of other social media sites can cause some serious issues between husbands and wives, friends, relatives and employers. A simple post […]

Checking Private Investigator Credentials

Friday 17 Apr 2015 - 11:05:56

Private investigator credentials – It is a sad fact that there are a large number of people in this world who are just plain dishonest. And it is also a fact that a large number of these dishonest people do end up being investigated by professional Private Investigators. What’s the point of private investigator credentials? […]

Court Appointed Private Investigator

Friday 3 Apr 2015 - 12:26:33

A court appointed private investigator? America is leading the way in court funded private investigation. Its becoming an intrinsic part of a defence strategy that private investigators are called in to interview potential witnesses for the defence. It stands to reason that a single person that has been accused of a crime does not not […]

Private Investigators and Phone Hacking

Friday 6 Mar 2015 - 01:18:29

Private Investigations are dependent on the quality of data gathering techniques used. The methods used must comply with the law. In this post we look at the consequences of data gatherers, ie. journalists and private investigators, that got it wrong. Phone Hacking in the News. In the news this week you may have seen the […]

The Private Investigator and Social Media

Saturday 28 Feb 2015 - 02:47:15

Private investigator and social media – If you can cast your mind back to the last post, we showed you just how many people across the nation (according to Ofcom) have at least one social media account. The thing about those social media accounts is that they can also be used to network with other […]

Social Media & Private Investigators

Saturday 21 Feb 2015 - 12:34:11

Social media has taken the world by storm. According to Ofcom, in 2014 66% of adults that use the Internet in the UK have a social media profile on at least 1 platform. Facebook is still the most popular, although Twitter and Pinterest amongst others are catching up. In the two youngest age groups measured […]

Private Investigator Spy Apps?

Friday 30 Jan 2015 - 10:51:59

Private investigator spy apps? An integral part of the modern, professional private investigator tool kit is the mobile phone. Of course these days they are not just a phone but they are a smartphone. They are great. Almost everybody has one. One of the best things about them is the ability to download apps. Apps […]

Private Investigator & Safety Regulations

Saturday 6 Dec 2014 - 01:36:18

Private Investigator safety? As technology progresses, the technology companies find cheaper and cheaper ways of doing things and so the cost to the consumer is vastly reduced. Only 20 years ago the price of a CD burner was in the tens of thousands, now they can be bought for just a few pounds. This is […]

Private Investigator Services And The Police

Friday 28 Nov 2014 - 01:46:43

If you are a regular reader of our blog you will perhaps remember that back  in September we wrote about how the police service were asking victims to help them solve the crimes that had affected them. This was in part due to the drastic cuts in police numbers and funding. Well, failing police forces […]

Police Cutting Back?

Saturday 13 Sep 2014 - 01:07:39

Last time we looked at how the police are already asking civilians to investigate crimes that they have been the victim of. This week it’s been reported across the media that the powers that be want to reduce the number of serving Chief police officers. Are the Police Cutting Back? The BBC interviewed Irene Curtis […]

Investigators, still a Job for the Police?

Saturday 6 Sep 2014 - 10:10:14

Did you know Great Britain has a national network of investigators & Police, well it does. In 2013 according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) there were 129,584 full time serving police officers in England and Wales. The Telegraph published an interesting report yesterday about how the police are needing the public to support […]

Private Investigators Investigate Fraud

Friday 29 Aug 2014 - 01:46:11

Whether your case involves benefit, insurance or corporate frauds there are things that should be considered when you investigate fraud. This post looks at the top 10 things that need to be taken into account to ensure a successful conclusion to a case when you investigate fraud. The Law. Investigators carrying out an investigation of […]

Private Investigators on TV

Friday 22 Aug 2014 - 10:41:16

Private Investigators on tv? We are fast approaching the end of the summer holidays and we thought we would take a lighthearted look at popular ones. It has been harder than it sounds to gather a list of fictional private investigators rather than the classic cop sleuths we are inundated with. So here are our […]

Private Investigators Support Solicitors

Saturday 16 Aug 2014 - 09:12:56

Private Investigators support solicitors, however, we can all guess why a member of the general public would want to hire a private investigator firm. The classics are to trace missing relatives or confirm the faithfulness of a partner. However, as a solicitor you might consider the option of using a one-stop shop. This is where […]

The Private Investigator Data Protection

Friday 8 Aug 2014 - 10:00:20

We all need a data protection refresher course every now and then. This post looks at the Data Protection Act 1998 and the implications for Private Investigators. Recent reports in the national newspapers about the activities of Glenn Mulcaire highlight the need to bear the Act in mind when carrying out investigations. It should be […]

Vehicle Tracking Use

Friday 25 Jul 2014 - 09:29:51

With vehicle tracking use, back in May this year we wrote a detailed post that looked at the different types of technology that is used in vehicle tracking devices, we are going to build on that this week by looking at the circumstances where it will be useful and the guidelines that should be followed. […]

Licensing Professional Investigators

Friday 4 Jul 2014 - 11:18:59

We are half way through the year and getting ever closer to the government’s introduction of  Professional Investigators Licensing, and with this licence will come the regulation of the industry. In this post we will be looking at the Top 5 benefits that licensing will bring for both the general public, as well as to the […]

Investigator Essentials

Friday 9 May 2014 - 02:23:48

Builders have hammers, plumbers have plungers. Every trade person has their own collection of essential tools without which their job would be nigh on impossible. Private investigators are no exception. Private Investigator Essentials This post looks at the top 5 tools every local private investigator should own. 1. Cobra Deluxe Spy Stick. Retailing at approximately […]

Child Abduction

Friday 25 Apr 2014 - 11:04:42

In this weeks post, we have gone for a change in direction as we tackle the sensitive subject of parental child abduction. Child abduction (parental), the CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) has reported the rather startling fact that in total over 140,000 missing children every year. This equates to one child every 3 […]

ICO – Data Protection

Friday 28 Feb 2014 - 09:39:59

ICO – Data protection should be at the top of the list of things to be concerned about for everyone. ICO – Data Protection, The law that was issued in 1988 states that any information, in any format, (digital, paper, visual or audio) that is held about a person must be secure, must be up […]

Private Investigators Help to Trace Debtors

Friday 20 Dec 2013 - 12:47:10

According to a recent report British taxpayers will have to pay for graduates who have left the country without paying debts. Private investigators have been called in to track down overseas graduates from UK universities who have left the country owing millions of pounds. We have found at Alpha 1 Legal Services, that we are […]

Private Investigators Image

Saturday 7 Dec 2013 - 12:36:40

The private investigators image that springs to mind, when one thinks of private investigators is the type of private eye or snoop that was romanticised in cinema. Like Jack Nicholson’s character in Chinatown, the British Sherlock Homes or even Hercule Poirot as made famous by Agatha Christie. However, professional investigators services are in demand in […]

Private Investigators In The UK Win Top Award

Saturday 23 Nov 2013 - 12:41:50

Alpha 1 Legal Services, one of the leading private investigator companies in the UK, is pleased to announce it has been voted as “UK Investigation Company of the Year 2014/15” at the Acquisition International M&A Awards. Private investigators win award! Alpha 1 Legal Services operate not only across the country with a number of legal […]

Private Investigators & Process Serving

Saturday 16 Nov 2013 - 01:35:44

As a professional process serving company it never ceases to amaze and mystify us here at Alpha 1 Legal Services, particularly on a Friday. At approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, we will receive a stream of calls from solicitors, government departments and other agencies with a request process serving to serve documents upon an individual or […]