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Hi,
We are looking for link swaps for our resources page:
http://www.ukpeoplesearch.co.uk/peoplesearchlinks.htm
We are mainly interested in websites that are in the security, family history or law industries but we will exchange links with most other websites. So if you have a website get in touch with us.
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 01.30.13 @ 02:00 AM CST [link]
Hi,
There's 5 weeks left until Christmas, and now would be a good time to try and trace any friends or family members you've lost touch with. With some luck they can call you on xmas day and be around for the parties.
In other UK investigator news, I've seen an Information Commissioner's leaflet providing guidance on when to disclose information about employees to a P.I. . Just letting everyone know that it's not against the law to pass on details to an investigator who is trying to find an employee to give them money from a will, trace someone who has committed a crime or is involved in a legal case.
You'd be surprised how many companies just say "the data protection act won't let us give you any info". That's fine but will they at least post a letter to the employee on my behalf? They don't need to supply the address. Private Investigators mostly try and re-establish communication between their client and the missing person, we are not usually wolves at the door.
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 11.21.12 @ 02:03 AM CST [link]
Back in March when I made my last blog post I was saying "hope everyone enjoyed the good weather" but this summer has been very wet and miserable across the UK. Fingers crossed it gets better!
Apparently, the police force are thinking a lot more people will turn to private investigators for help as their police force is scaled down due to spending cuts. A senior group of them are already talking to MPs about going ahead with the long overdue licensing of UK PIs due to this.
The article I found:
http://touch.policeoracle.com/news/article/id/51004
Well, I guess we could help with the missing person enquiries and several other key aspects but there's always been a balance between what an official government body should provide to people and what the private sector can provide. It begs the question - if the cuts are severe will only the rich be able to afford private investigators and get justice.
On other news, my online forum has been updated. there was a LOT of spam on the last one as the spambots managed to get through the registration pages. I didn't use any captchas or verifications questions.
http://www.ukpeoplesearch.co.uk/missingperson
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 07.11.12 @ 02:44 AM CST [link]
Hi,
I hope everyone is enjoying the good weather recently, a bit odd for March! If you need anyone located give me an email through the main website page, you could be in touch with long lost relatives and friends by the summer.
In other news, the ANI reports that a call centre worker from India tried to sell them personal details of 1000s of UK customers. The IT consultant, Naresh Singh, met reporters in a hotel room and brought a laptop containing credit card details of 1000s of British customers.
This kind of trade in your personal information is illegal. This criminal is selling details that could only have been used for financial gain and to circumvent financial security. I'll need to think twice before I give any of my details to anyone over the phone...
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 03.26.12 @ 01:43 AM CST [link]
It was reassuring to read that the Leveson inquiry into media phone hacking has talked to the UK information commissioner and that he gave British private investigators a clean bill of health.
Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, told the inquiry that in the past 5 years he had found no evidence of the media hiring private investigators to steal people's private information.
There will always be bad eggs in any industry, but it's nice to hear information laws and privacy concerns seem to be upheld by private investigators.
On a different note, there has been a larger that usual number of trace requests asking to find ebay or online scammers. These people are very difficult to locate as all the information they have given you is false. A fake name, fake address, and asked you to pay by cash or send cash through western union. Please email ebay first and ask them for the person's address they have on file, it might be at least a previous address of theirs. As always, prevention is better than cure so stay away from any emails out of the blue offering money for doing nothing.
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 02.24.12 @ 04:20 AM CST [link]
Hi,
Happy new year everyone! I hope in 2012 I will help lots of people reunite with their lost friends and family. This Christmas, new year period is always a busy time of year for investigation agencies – there's a lot of people wanting to find family at this time of year.
I will be working through the holidays, only taking a few days off at Christmas and new year. So keep the emails coming! I'll try and help everyone that I can.
After some soul searching, I can reveal that there won't be any immediate price increases on my services. With the recession, the cost of everything is going up. Although that means my budget is being squeezed both for my personal life and the business (dealing with government agencies and public records fees have increased by as much as 50% recently) I don't intend to raise my prices for the foreseeable future.
So if you need to find missing family or friends, now would be a good time to do it.
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 01.06.12 @ 04:11 AM CST [link]
Hi,
Sorry that I've not made a blog post for such a long time. I've been writing this blog for years now and my attention is beginning to wane, I will try and keep it up as I know visitors do check this blog to make sure there's someone still working behind the website.
There are several private investigator associations within our industry, I often then we have more professional associations per worker than any other industry. I am a member of two of them, as they all have the same members anyway! The World Association of Professional Investigators (WAPI) has turned ten years old on 9th August 2011. I have been a member for the past 5 years and I am pleased at their continuing standards and attempts to guide the industry in the ways we have all discussed.
Thinking back, I guess the most important issue WAPI took on was the regulation of the industry. There were many opinions about how this should be done and every association had their own blueprint on how to asses private investigators and licensing criteria. I still think the idea that new PIs should take a written test and if they pass then they can get their license. To take the test there were a few criteria to be met like having some experience or having taken a home study course about the industry. I think this was the most assessed and open route thought up as other associations were insisting that they should be the gatekeepers of the industry and you had to have done a number of years employed by one of their members to get a license. Unfortunately, the government only ended up licensing security industries and review after review resulted in no system for private investigators in the UK.
Thanks,
Andy
Andy on 09.26.11 @ 02:38 AM CST [link]
