| Private detectives, fiction writers and film | | | | You can use private investigation services for |
| producers would have it, are required to solve | | | | more 'private' purposes too. For example, to |
| complex whodunit cases. The reality actually is | | | | check out the guy dating your daughter, or the |
| much simpler. Private detectives are required for | | | | girl your son is going out with. |
| routine checking cases and fact finding | | | | Another very important area where a private |
| assignments, in which there is no need to play | | | | detective agency plays a part is in finding out |
| Sherlock Holmes. | | | | information for cases under trial, and testifying to |
| Private detectives, for example, can be used to | | | | the same in the court. |
| check the credentials of a candidate whom a | | | | Good private agencies, operating in Delhi and |
| company wants to hire. If a company wants to | | | | other metro cities like Mumbai, Bangalore and |
| acquire another company, private detectives can | | | | Kolkata, can give you exact and reliable |
| be used to get thorough information about the | | | | information, while bad detectives can lead you to |
| company being acquired. | | | | wrong conclusions. Therefore it is necessary to |
| Do you suspect your business partner of making | | | | pick the right private eye. |
| deals behind your back? Or your employee of | | | | Normally private eyes are people who have |
| selling information to your rivals? Well the only | | | | retired from active service in security agencies |
| way to find out for sure is to put a private eye | | | | but wish to continue the work that they were |
| on their tracks. | | | | doing. It provides them with an occupation in their |
| But given that your quarry is no street hoodlum, | | | | otherwise free time, and supplements their |
| but an educated professional, it is necessary that | | | | incomes. |
| the methods you employ are equally sophisticated. | | | | But obviously all private detectives are not equally |
| For this purpose detectives may use what is | | | | qualified. Therefore go through their past record |
| called 'tech-int' or technical intelligence gathered | | | | carefully before hiring a detective agency. |
| through phone tapping, net surveillance, or | | | | As mentioned above, private detectives may |
| surveillance through close circuit cameras etc. | | | | have to employ both technical and human |
| At other times, detectives may have to go the | | | | resources to catch their quarry. Therefore it is |
| 'human-int' way, by actually putting a man on the | | | | necessary to pick an agency that is able to |
| tail of the person. Such an operation, where the | | | | mount both sort of operation. Private investigation |
| detective shadows his quarry are called | | | | services based in Delhi, given that it is the capital |
| undercover operations. These operations can be | | | | city, have to be little more careful than other |
| very tricky and dangerous as the stakes are | | | | across the country. |
| very high. | | | | |