There are certain types of cases that lend themselves to a physical surveillance. Most commonly, divorce or personal cases and insurance or worker's compensation claims. Physical surveillance investigation requires delicate tactics, skills and planning.

First, in divorce or personal cases it is usually the spouse or significant other wanting their partner spied on for suspicion of an affair. These cases get quite sticky for me. It is very hard for me to prove someone is cheating without actually getting up close and personal, or even getting almost into the bedroom with the video camera. The fee goes higher the closer I have to get!

Next is the insurance or worker's compensation claim. I love these cases, especially when I prove someone has lied on a claim about being injured. Meanwhile, the badly injured person is miraculously able to roof a house or move heavy furniture. This really gets me hot under the collar, but it is all the more satisfying to catch a pe

Paralleling is also used in some of my cases. I have to be familiar with the area before I perform this technique. This is where I am positioned on one street while the subject is on the next one parallel to me. I drive in the same direction as the subject checking every intersection to make sure they are still with me. If they come up missing between blocks, then I know they have either stopped in between or turned around and I can go check it out.

rson in the act, especially when time is money.

Tailing or shadowing a subject is another skill I have developed through a lot of practice. I have to stay as far back as I can to not alert the person that I am following them. However, I must stay close enough so that I do not lose the tail. In a two-man tail, my partner and I perform leapfrog or sandwich tail. I position myself behind the subject as my partner gets in front of the subject's car. We communicate via a cell phone as to where the subject makes turns and such. If the surveillant turns, one partner will alert the other of the turn and I can follow suit until my partner repositions their self.

On surveillance it is very important to keep records of dates, times, tag numbers, addresses, auto descriptions, other people with the subject, photos, and video. Attention to detail is pertinent to my cases; the

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