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Counterespionage Consulting Services … Untapped
Secrets for Boosting Your Business by Kevin D. Murray,
CPP, CFE, BCFE
Describes how to generate substantial income by partnering with specialists
to offer a security team-approach package with an average fee share from countermeasures
specialists from five to twenty percent of the fee for services. Gives tips
on how to find specialists for joint ventures, pricing, and how to present
the benefits of eavesdropping detection and counterespionage consulting to
your clients.
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Gypsies, Travelers & Thieves by Don C. Johnson, CLI, CII
Describes the history and role of the mysterious itinerant “gypsy” clans
known as Irish Travelers as well as the Romani gypsy mafia in scams and con
artist activity in the U.S.
They Find the Lost When Everyone Else Has Given Up by
Leisa Hazard
Describes how professional investigators can participate in the work of the
Doe Network, a volunteer organization that helps solve cold cases involving
missing persons and unidentified murder victims.
Certification Acronyms by Grace E. Castle
CLI Editor
A partial list of certifications that may be available to the professional
investigator in the U.S.
Evaluating Public Record Databases by Cynthia
Hetherington, MLS
An evaluation and analysis of the major services or sources that provide access
to public, as well as private, record information for people, products and
corporations based on a survey send to vendors. Includes reviews of SuperiorInfo
PLUS, Open Online, LocatePlus, Merlindata.com, Flatrate Info, Lexis-Nexis Public
Records, Peoplefinder, IRBSearch, Knowx.com, Autotrackxp, Choicepoint Online
and Choicepoint.
Simple CD Technology vs. the Internet: the Results
are Surprising
by Alexander Monday
A comparison of the merits and disadvantages of paying for access to databases
and consumer business information on the internet, and the use of regularly
updated computer CDs for data searches and archiving.
Surveillance and Trespassing by Ron R. Buretta
Discusses the changing constraints on professional investigators in regard
to the key issues of trespassing and invasion of privacy in the wake of the
2002 settlement of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Southern
Illinois. The court's ruling, allowing for punitive damages, changes the
rules of what constitutes a reasonable expectation of privacy. The article
advises professional investigators how to avoid such charges.
New Homeland Security Info Center Website
Announces a new central site for the National Technical Information Service
(NTIS), an agency under the technology administration of the U.S. Department
of Commerce, that posts important documents and multi-media resources in
regard to health and medicine, emergency preparedness and response, biology
and chemical warfare, and food and agricultural safety and safety training
packages. Includes a variety of anti-terrorism information.
Coping Skills for Your Day in Court by Frank
J. MacHovec, Ph.D.
Advice on how to prepare to testify in court as well as preparing every report
with the thought that it may go to court as part of your summons to personally
appear there. Provides tips on how to defy tactics of verbal abuse commonly
used against witnesses.
Investigating Crimes Against the Disabled by
Karen Kirby-Hall, RN
Discusses how to investigate rising reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation
of the disabled in institutional and community settings. Specific pointers
are given on investigating physical abuse, over sedation, improper use of restraints,
neglect and exploitation/financial fraud.
A Look Through the Looking Glass – at Us! by
Deborah Aylward
Demographic results of a Job Task Analysis (JTA) commissioned by the Virginia
Depart of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), Private Security Section (PSS)
reveal stunning facts about Virginia private investigators and license investigative
businesses. The survey involved a five-page list of knowledge, skills and abilities
(KSA) deemed necessary for entry-level private investigator's successful execution
of basic investigations.
Important Facts to Know about Investigations in France by
Marie-Francoise Hollinger, Federal Secretary of CNSP-ARP, Professional
Chamber of French Detectives
This international section feature provides important facts to know about investigations
in France where the “Private Security Law” divides the profession
into categories, each of which have rights to undertake certain activities.
Suspicious Wills and Contracts by Andrej
Dvorsak
This international section feature by a member of the top board of Detective
Chamber of Private Detectives of the Republic of Slovenia provides useful advice
for investigators of document fraud in any country.
Book Review – Corporate Investigations compiled
by Reginald J. Montgomery and William J. Majeski, reviewed
by Jimmie Mesis
A review of this indispensable investigative resource with selections by thirty
of the most talented and recognized professionals on their areas of expertise,
including FCRA, profiling, surveillance, electronic eavesdropping and counterespionage,
voice identification, computer forensics, investigating internal theft in a
business, employer crime claims, product diversion, due diligence and much
more.
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