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Our Surveillance Team Busts Ex-Hubby Dodging Child Support | Child Support & Custody Investigations
Ex-Hubby Dodging Child Support: Precise Investigation recently undertook an assignment regarding child support which was undertook in Melbourne. The case follows Mark Sinfred, a 45 year-old executive from the northern suburbs. Mark’s ex-wife Joanna contacted Precise Investigation following her suspicions that her ex, Mark, had been supplying botched-up information to the government surrounding his child-support…
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How Can a Private Investigator Help Your Business? | Commercial Investigations
How Can a Private Investigator Help Your Business? Gathering information on corporate espionage executives, road representatives, and even senior partners can be important to understand their mentalities. Business owners with secrets that competitors must not discover, or simply those who don’t want their best workers to leave, may benefit from private surveillance. Corporate workers are…
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Why You Should Hire a PI to Help with Child Custody Battles | Child Custody Services Australia
Why a PI Should Help You with Child Custody Battles: During child custody battles, a private investigator from Precise Investigation could be an invaluable tool in helping you win your case. A parent is not able to spend every moment with a child to ensure that any Federal Court orders are not broken. Many parents…
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Private Investigators Want a Look at the Electoral Rolls | Elections & Investigations Australia
Private Investigators Want a Look at the Electoral Rolls: Private investigators are the latest group to call for the Australian Electoral Commission to restore access to the electoral roll, saying recent changes inhibit their investigations, which often carried out on behalf of Commonwealth and state agencies. To have us work with you to overcome your…
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Tasmania Yet To Have Mandatory Background Checks for People Working with Children | Child Protection and Background Checks Tasmania
No Mandatory Background Checks for People Working with Children: Despite the personal tragedies highlighted by the Royal Commission on child sexual abuse, one Tasmanian says he was a victim of a cold case assault 27 years ago but can’t get justice. ROSITA GALLASCH reports. AT THE age of 11 James was sexually assaulted by his…
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Are Drones The Future for Private Investigators? | Technology, Drones and Investigations
Are Drones The Future for Private Investigators? Drones make for highly effective evidence gathering tools. Their ability to be remotely controlled and hover silently metres above the ground is a definite selling point to any potential investigator. Using drones allows Private Investigators to give clients the closure they’re looking for, without jeopardising their own safety…
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Apple’s “Location Service” Allegedly Invades Consumer Privacy | Privacy and Confidentiality Laws in Australia
Apple’s “Location Service” Invading Consumer Privacy: There’s a lot of us out there who think that Apple products are amazing, and there are some of us who prefer the design and functionality of other manufacturers and providers. Whilst the differences between Apple products and other devices may be fairly slight in comparison, there is one…
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How Private Investigators Stay Healthy | Health, Wellbeing and Motivation
How Private Investigators Stay Healthy: Private investigators that are stationary for prolonged periods of time (such as from conducting surveillance or sitting at a computer) are more pronged to health-related problems. This can lead to weight gain and back pain. Surveillance also presents additional challenges such as stressful situations, breathing in exhaust fumes and isolation,…
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Killer’s Sentence Reduced For Man Who Tracked Wife with Private Investigator | News, Murder and Investigations
Killer’s Sentence Reduced: A man who stabbed his wife to death after she hired a private investigator to track his movements has had three years knocked off his minimum sentence. Killer Stephen McPhee was originally jailed for 20 years, with a minimum of 16, over the brutal murder of his wife Cathy in 2011. Today,…
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Filter “Fake” CVs with a Background Check By Precise Investigation
Filter Out “Fake” Résumés: Job seekers are regularly misleading bosses about their employment history, academic qualifications and visa status, industry research shows. Background checking of employees has become a hot topic in the past few weeks after retail giant Myer was embarrassed over its bungled hiring of CV faker Andrew Flanagan as a senior executive.…
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Welsh Boxer Banned After Background Check | Professional Background Checks Australia
Welsh Boxer Banned After Background Check: Background checks are employed by small companies, global events, leading corporations and individuals alike as a means to ascertain whether a given person is telling the truth about their history or not. Take Commonwealth Games for example, where a Welsh boxer, Fred Evans, was disallowed from taking part in…
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Family Law Researchers Seeking Feedback on Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICL) | Family Law Australia
Seeking Feedback on Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICL): We wanted to share this with all the Dads out there who feel that they may have been discriminated against by Court appointed Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICLs). Family Law Researchers have released a survey that they hope will help them to uncover the truths associated with ICLs, in…
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Trusting Your Employees – Get Answers with Precise Investigation | Employee Surveillance
Trusting Your Employees: It’s important to be able to trust the people you hire to help run your business. Most of the time, that isn’t a problem. However, there are always times when a once-reliable employee can raise suspicions among you and the rest of your staff. Perhaps someone’s questionable conduct is raising eyebrows, or…
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Rolf Harris Guilty and Given 5 Years | Rolf Harris Charged over Paedophilia Allegations
Rolf Harris Guilty, Given 5 Years: Rolf Harris, the former Australian entertainment icon, has been found guilty on twelve charges of indecent assault, from 1968 to 1986, against four underage women. Justice Nigel Sweeney confirmed that a jail term was the most likely outcome of the hearing, saying that the notion was “uppermost in the…
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Growing Intolerance for Violence, Court Data Shows | Australian Courts, Violence and Investigations
Court Data Shows Growing Intolerance for Violence: We found an interesting article over on Newscientist.com that delves into a surprising find that’s come about after researchers systematically analysed Court Data. Their findings? In a nutshell, it’s been shown that court rulings have continuously evolved to make sentences for those involved in violent crimes more harsh, last…
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Private Investigator Faces Trial, Accused of Unlawfully Obtaining and Passing On Information | Australian Law & Investigations
PI Accused of Unlawfully Obtaining and Passing On Information: A private investigator is facing trial accused of unlawfully obtaining and passing on information gardaí had on three people. Yesterday, Michael J Gaynor, trading as MJG Investigations, from Beatty Grove in Celbridge, Co Kildare, appeared at the Dublin District Court. The prosecution has been brought following…
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Parents Hire Private Investigator to Find Son | Skip Tracing and Location Services Australia
Parents Hire Private Investigator to Find Son: The parents of a missing North Dakota State College of Science student say they’ve hired a private investigator because the police investigation has gone cold. Twenty-year-old Andrew Sadek left his dorm on May 1 and hasn’t been seen since. Days later, authorities issued an arrest warrant charging Sadek…
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Botched Background Check Cost Him the Job Offer | Employment and Background Checks
Shoddy Background Check Cost Him the Job: When conducting a background check, you’d think that any professional organisation who provided them would follow up with accurate results, right? Well it turns out that one particular company, Sterling Infosystems, which claims to be “the world’s largest company focused entirely on background checks,” may have cost an…
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Computer Checks on Taxi Drivers with Criminal Pasts Halted Due to NSW Gov Job Cuts | Government Job Cuts Australia
Job Cuts Mean No Background Checks on ex-Criminal Taxi Drivers: What’s your opinion on this? We, as Private Investigators, insist on performing background checks on individuals who serve the public; not as a means to violate their privacy, but to protect the interests of those they serve. If you hired a babysitter to care for…
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Jealous Husband Beat Cheating Wife to Death after PI Uncovered Affair | Murder and Infidelity in Australia
Jealous Husband Beat Cheating Wife to Death: Infidelity can have very serious consequences. Most of us imagine a break-up to be pretty straightforward, albeit hurtful and emotionally draining, but it’s not uncommon for people to resort to domestic violence in their bouts of anger. The BBC reports on a recent case, where a woman was…
