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Are Insurance Prices Going to Increase?
Are Insurance Policy Premiums Set to Spike? You’ve probably noticed that there have been a bunch of natural disasters this year, with two of the biggest international ones being Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. Now, you may not think that foreign hurricanes can affect Australia, but they can and do. The insurance industry in Australia, while…
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Cat-Astrophic Covert Investigations Programme
CAT-ASTROPHIC COVERT PROGRAMME When you work in our industry, you’re always looking for the latest and greatest tools to use for covet surveillance. After all, anything that makes our lives easier will probably help produce better results for our clients as well. Throughout the history of spy gadgets and techniques however, there have been a…
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Schools Use PIs to Mitigate Fraud
Schools Use Private Investigators to Snoop on Fraudulent Parents A few years ago, it was reported that Australian schools were beginning to hire Private Investigators. As you may know, government-run schools generally work by catchment area, meaning that children are only eligible to attend if they live in the vicinity. The issue this create is…
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The Effects of Workplace Bullying
Workplace Bullying and How to Handle It Workplace bullying is a serious issue in the Australian corporate sector, with a 2016 survey finding that half of Australians to have experienced it at some point in their careers. While bullying at work rarely intersects directly with Private Investigation work, due to the difficulties in carrying out…
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Three Common Forms of Commercial Fraud
Three Common Forms of Fraud in the Workplace Throughout its lifetime, the average small Australian business will encounter some form of fraud at least once or twice. Larger organisations face the issue much more frequently, and unfortunately, in many instances, less obvious cases of fraud may go entirely unnoticed. Studies have shown that fraud in…
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Government Contracts and Private Investigations
Our Work with Australia’s Federal Government Did you know that the federal government hires Private Investigators? The government has spent $380,250 since 2012 on Private Investigation contracts, mainly to catch people committing fraud, be it identity, unemployment or disability-related. We want to highlight this as a mark of trust for the private investigation industry. After…
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Five Serious Investigations Handled by Pro PIs
Serious Investigations Handled by Professional PIs So much for catching your cheating partners; some investigators are simply too busy trying to solve serious crimes and international mysteries! We’ve listed five serious investigations, or types thereof, from around the world where private investigators have either solved the cases entirely or played a crucial role in having…
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The Tools of Our Trade
The Tools of Our Trade You may already have some idea of what type of gear Private Investigators carry while on the job, after all, the basics are pretty simple. While the camera, notebook and vehicle are obvious, there are many accessories and gadgets that you may not have thought about and many of them…
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Weird and Wonderful Cases from Around the World
A Few Weird and Wonderful Cases from around the World Sometimes while working as a Private Investigator, you end up working on the strangest things. While the majority of cases that you work are straight forward corporate, infidelity, background checks or locates, you sometimes have a client surprise you with their request. Just to show…
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How to Stay Safe Online
How to Stay Protected Online The internet is an interesting place, full of fun facts, skewed statistics, ignorant comments and of course, pretty much anything else you could imagine. With that, and the fact that so many of us use the internet everyday, it’s important that we remind ourselves of the very real dangers out…
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The World’s Greatest PIs – Kate Warne
The World’s Greatest Private Detectives: Kate Warne Born in Erin, New York, 1833, Kate Warne was arguably the first female detective in the world, but at least the first female investigator hired by Allan Pinkerton in 1856 and the very first in North America. With that in mind, and given her successes in the field…
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Staying Protected Against Australia’s Stalkers
Six Ways to Stay Protected Against Stalkers While you have hopefully never had to nor ever will have to deal with a stalker, unfortunately there are many who have and even more who will. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that 1.6 million Australian women and 663,800 men have experienced stalking in their lifetime (as…
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The Black Widow Killer Investigation
Bringing the Infamous Black Widow Killer to Justice Helen Milner killed her husband and almost got away with it. It was only the persistence of Lee-Anne Cartier, the husband’s sister, that brought her to justice. She carried out her own investigation into his death, initially ruled as a suicide, and managed to get the…
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The World’s Greatest PIs – Allen Pinkerton
The World’s Greatest Private Detectives: Allen Pinkerton Allen Pinkerton was possibly one of the most accomplished Private Investigators in history. Rising from humble beginnings as a Cooper (barrel maker) in Glasgow, Scotland, to running the largest Private Detective and security agency in the world. So large in fact, that for decades after his death, “Pinkerton”…
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Knowing Who to Trust: Two More Reasons to Run a Professional Background Check
Knowing Who to Trust: Two More Reasons to Run a Professional Background Check You may have recently read a story about a woman who had unwittingly married a convicted rapist, or you might remember a story from a number of years ago, about a man who discovered his wife of 19 years had been born…
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Field Agents Required: Factual and Surveillance Investigations Professionals Wanted
Field Agents Required: Factual and Surveillance Investigations Professionals Wanted Precise Investigation is one of Australia’s leading professional investigation service providers, with over three decades’ experience in the Commercial, Legal, Insurance, Government and Private sectors. We have successfully provided certainty and clarity to clients across the country, supporting sound decision making, risk management and strategy execution. As…
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The World’s Greatest PIs – Eugène François Vidocq
The World’s Greatest Private Detectives: Eugène Fançois Vidocq Private investigation may be a well-established and commonly known profession in today’s world, but this wasn’t always the case. Once upon a time, the idea of private detectives didn’t exist – your only options were to summon the police or solve the issue yourself if they weren’t…
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5 Things a Private Investigator Can Do For Your Business
Protecting Your Company’s Best Interests since 1987 Businesses in the modern world have more use for Private Investigators now than ever before. Whether it’s through mitigating risk, managing your own security, deliberating commercial opportunities, recovering business information or ensuring legal proceedings go smoothly, a licensed private investigator can provide you with the information you need…
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5 Things a Private Investigator Can Do for You, as an Individual
5 things that a Private Investigator can do for you, as a private citizen Even as a private citizen, the services that a Private Investigator can offer are more useful than you might think. The services offered by Private Investigation companies all around Australia can be eminently useful or even necessary during the course of…
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The Battle for Rightful Custody
The Battle for Rightful Child Custody Earlier this year, Precise Investigation was approached by Charlotte Maine after she and her ex-husband, Sean McAdams, had separated and agreed to follow a parenting plan and subsequent consent order that the two had put together and had approved by a local court in NSW. Charlotte’s problems arose from…
