A private
investigator is a person who investigates privately to seek the answers of the
unlawfully or illegally hidden matters. Also commonly called as private
detective, a private investigator gathers clues. These service providers
interview people to collect information or may also quietly and sneakily follow
people around in search of information and evidence. A private detective or investigator
is licensed by government to investigate about a case and find facts related to
a case. They are authorized to collect evidences privately assigned by his
client to produce them in court in favor of their client.
An interesting example
of a job assigned to a Private investigator in Los Angeles is the part played by them in
divorce cases. Here they are hired by a person either husband or wife to help collect
information and evidences to prove the disloyalty or unfaithfulness of his or
her client’s husband or wife. In this scenario a private investigator will
gather information about the activities of the partner who has been accused as unfaithful.
This information is then used as evidence in court to make the decision of
court in favor of the client of the private investigator. The investigator may
follow the suspected person to keep an eye on his routine activities. He
gathers information on where he or she goes. He notices whom he or she meets. What
type of activities does he or she do? The private detective or investigator
watches the activities of the person for which he has been assigned. If the
private investigator finds some situation which helps proving disloyalty of
client’s partner such as meeting with someone in suspicious way that proves
disloyalty with his client, he will take pictures of theirs and those
photographs will in turn be produced in front of court to prove the disloyalty
of the partner.
Other ways a
private detective can come in as handy
Private
detective’s job also include keeping records of all the information gathered.
These records do contain facts about the particular case and those can also be
used as evidence in court if found beneficial in favor of client.
To further
explain the nature of the job done by a private detective is let us discuss the
example of missing or lost person. If a person is missing a private
investigator can be hired. Private investigator will try to find the missing
person. They also can find missing pet like a dog or cat.
In a state like
Los Angeles a large number of private investigator can be found. We can find
them in web. Private detectives do work at their own and they also work for
some agency or investigator organizations.
People can get
help of a private detective in all the situations described above. At this
point we should keep in mind that a private detective works within the limits
of legitimacy. They cannot be hired to threaten someone or harass them. They
cannot hired to do some unlawful activities. Their limitation includes
trespassing, hacking or tracking computer or phones.
Cost of hiring a
private detective
For those
people who want to know the expenses of hiring a private investigator let us go
through a brief discussion. Like any other form of work, private investigators
also charge a nominal fee for hiring them and getting a job done by them. The
cost depends upon the nature of case you have. It also depends upon the time
per hour to perform the job and also transportation cost etcetera. It is not
very expensive to hire a private detective and mostly an ordinary person can
get the benefit of hiring them.