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Hiring a Private Investigator 101 | Private Investigations Australia
Hiring a Private Investigator 101: Need to catch a corrupt business executive or require evidence to prove your spouse is cheating? There are a million and one reasons you might need to hire a private investigator! The question is… where do you start? To help ensure you are not being taken for a fool, here’s…
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Locating a Missing Individual | Missing Persons Australia
Locating a Missing Individual: Individuals may go missing for any of a number of reasons. In cases where they go missing of their own accord, those left behind are typically left with a number of questions that they need answered. Is their loved one safe? Why did they leave? Where did they go? The typical…
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Getting a Divorce? Here’s 3 Reasons You Need to Hire a PI | Why Hire a Private Investigator?
3 Reasons You Need to Hire a PI When Getting a Divorce: Did you know that there were 49,917 divorces granted in Australia in 2012?* That is a staggering number… and it’s up by 982 (2 percent) compared to the previous year. What’s worse is just under half of these divorces will involve children.While these…
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Precise Investigation To The Rescue | Animal Abuse Victoria
Precise Investigation To The Rescue: Believe it or not, our subject isn’t always a person. Take this case in Victoria for example whereby the subject (or shall we say subjects) were actually small defenceless puppies. This particular case came after local law enforcement agencies were investigating a public tip-off into the wellbeing of over 100…
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20 Most Common Reasons People & Companies Currently Look To Hire Private Investigators | Domestic and Commercial Investigations
20 Reasons People & Companies Currently Hire Private Investigators: When it comes to working as a private investigator (PI) we specialise across the board in domestic, commercial and industrial investigation work. Fortunately, this gives the Precise Investigation team flexibility to work with many types of people and on a variety of different investigations. So, for…
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Life as Private Investigator | Investigations Australia
5 Things You Don’t Know About Life as Private Investigator: The notion of being a private investigator (PI) drums up all kinds of indulgent images of a life less-ordinary. You think fast cars. You think action-packed drama. You think James Bond and Austin Powers. To all those dreamers out there sorry to burst your bubble…
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Sex, Lies… and All Caught on Video Tape | Surveillance Investigations Australia
Sex, Lies and All Caught on Video Tape: When you think of hiring a private investigator to follow someone… you think criminal acts, missing persons, fraud… that sort of thing… right? You don’t think of spying on your own family, much less your own children. Or do you? Well, according to one of our recent…
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The Real Life of a Private Investigator | Investigators Australia
The Real Life of a Private Investigator: Recently I was approached by journalist, Karla Dondio, to do an interview for an article she was publishing called The Real Life of a Private Investigator. The article explores the intricate life of a private investigator and uncovers some of the common stigmas often attached to this line…
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Christmas Scams – Don’t Let the Grinch Steal Christmas | Fraud and Scams over Christmas
Don’t Let the Grinch Steal Christmas: Precise Investigation is urging all readers to be weary of scams this Christmas, following an update from Scamwatch. With online shopping presenting such an effective way to purchase presents leading up to Christmas, it unfortunately has a range of drawbacks, most prevailing of which are the pitfalls set up…
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10 Tell-Tale Signs of a Tell-Tale | How Tos and DIY Australia
10 Tell-Tale Signs of a Tell-Tale: Liar, liar pants on fire. Remember that chant from school days when kids on the playground would out their mates for lying. If only adults were that ruthless. Seems the older we get, the easier it becomes to lie, and the harder it is to read a liar. As…
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Online Dating Case Opens Pandora’s Box of Lies and Deceit | Online Dating and Romance Australia
Pandora’s Box of Lies and Deceit: The online dating world has been around for decades and is just another means to finding true love for many single Australians. It’s a simple equation, right? You post a profile and then search for someone you find attractive and who ticks all the boxes… well, on paper at…
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John Ioannou Guest Speaker At The ASSI | ASSI Australia & Private Investigations
John Ioannou, Guest Speaker At The ASSI: Wow! What an exciting week it’s been. Not your ordinary day in the office… let’s just say that. In fact, this week, I, John Ioannou, did the unimaginable and went back to school. Who would have ever thought, eh? However, this time I wasn’t in class… I was…
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Precise Investigation Digs up the Truth On Shifty Plumber | Domestic Service Investigations Perth
Digging up the Truth On Shifty Plumber: If you are suspicious that an employee is being disloyal in any way whatsoever then this story will certainly be of interest to you. It looks at how one of our Perth clients, a small private building company, caught one of its plumbers cheating a work cover claim…
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5 Tips for Finding a Loved One | Missing Persons Australia
5 Tips for Finding a Loved One: One of the most common reasons people knock on our door at Precise Investigation is to help them search for a loved one. Mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, best friend… the list is long and the motivation varies for each case. Sometimes the person we are looking for…
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Bug Sweeping… Keeping Out The Pests! | Bug Sweeping Services Australia
Keeping Out The Pests: When it comes to bug sweeping, the idea is to protect yourself from pests who might be recording or monitoring your every move. Sounds awfully cliché, but it’s true! While illegal for someone to tap into your private space, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Over the years working as private…
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Private Investigator vs Public Investigator | Insights into the PI Industry
Private vs Public Investigators: We throw the term investigator around a lot but what is actually the difference between a private investigator and a public investigator (aka PI)… is there any? There sure is! Simply put, a “public” investigator refers to police officers and government agents (think TV shows like CSI and NCIS). Whereas a…
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A Real Life Sherlock Holmes Talks to Neos Kosmos | Neos Kosmos on Private Investigations
A Real Life Sherlock Holmes: The secret lives of us A real life Sherlock Holmes talks to Neos Kosmos as we unearth the suspicions that drive many members of our community to seek his serviceshttp://neoskosmos.com/news/en/the-secret-lives-of-us At first sight, John Ioannou is your average middle-aged bloke with a cool edge. He loves his motorcycle, his collection…
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Fraudulent Work Cover Claim Leaves Employees Financially Wounded | Fraud and Scams in Australia
Fraudulent Claim Leaves Employees Financially Wounded: Take one major corporate Australian company and one deceitful employee and you’ve got the makings of one very elaborate work cover investigation case… in fact, when it comes to commercial work cover cases, this one’s an absolute doozy. It started off when one of our clients from Sydney, New…
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Top 10 Signs Your Partner is Cheating | Infidelity and Affairs Australia
Top 10 Give-aways That Your Partner is Cheating: Suspect your partner might be cheating? We deal with cheating partner investigations more often than we’d like to admit. One of the downsides to being a private detective is telling your client that their partner is being unfaithful. Although, nine times out of ten, most clients already…
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5 Myths About Private Investigators | Private Investigations Australia
5 Myths About Private Investigators: When it comes to working as a private investigator (PI) there are so many preconceived notions… like driving fast cars, breaking and entering, tapping phone lines… all that kind of stuff. Maybe these stereotypical ideas come from TV shows? Who knows? I’m not too sure where people get the idea…
