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Physical Surveillance Investigations

A higher-level designed for high-stakes litigation, threat assessments and ultra-sensitive security matters
Established in 1995
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🥇 Gold Standard Elite in Advanced Physical Surveillance ⎯ The team is composed of licensed Independent Contractors. The core members have successfully worked together on high-stakes assignments for over 12 years, and are quiet and trustworthy ⎯ and used by in-the-know industry professionals for sensitive cases.
Specializing in one investigative service 👉 Advanced Physical Surveillance
Many professions have specializations within its practices. For example, medicine has cardiologists and orthopedics; attorneys have tax and environmental; nursing has critical care and pediatric. Private investigation also has specializations.
❝ Private sector Physical Surveillance on an alert subject is the most difficult investigative discipline to perform successfully on a consistent basis. Just as one would not use a primary physician for heart surgery, one should not use a generalist private investigator for a highly specialized investigative discipline such as private sector physical surveillance.❞
What is advanced physical surveillance? It is a physical surveillance service that uses lawful high-tech equipment and Tier One level practitioners, and designed to provide highly effective, reliable and lawful mobile physical surveillance for high-stakes cases ⎯ where failure to discreetly conduct a mobile watch can result in significant evidentiary and information losses and/or unnecessary safety issues to a person or persons.
Private sector physical surveillance is a specialty. That is why the FBI, CIA and other same type agencies have units whose personnel are dedicated to only conducting physical surveillance. For example, the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) of the FBI is their full-time dedicated physical surveillance unit consisting of practitioners that perform physical surveillance as a full-time job.
Please click on below link for a better understanding why most physical surveillances fail: How to Choose a Private Investigation Agency for a Physical Surveillance (Sub Rosa)
Why so many failures physical surveillance? Private sector physical surveillance are the most misunderstood investigative discipline and most difficult to perform successfully on a consistent basis, hence the high failure rate. Nearly all assignment fails are due to a selection person choosing an unqualified physical surveillance investigation vendor. Poor decisions in selecting a qualified vendor for physical surveillance-investigation can significantly impact an organization negatively. The negative impact may be related to reduced safety for employees during a threat of workplace violence, missed opportunities on game changing evidence in a lawsuit and/or exposure to unnecessary lawsuits due to the investigators unprofessional actions.
Undercover investigator hands suspect cash in exchange for alleged stolen high-profile entertainment related property (owned by a Fortune 100 company) not yet released to public.
Ethical and lawful high-tech equipment can make the difference in operational success or failure.

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