If you are ever in the unenviable situation of suspecting a husband or wife of cheating on you, then instead of risking it all by confronting them, you may wish to employ a private investigator.

It may seem like an extreme cause of action, but in some cases you may feel like this is your only route to unearthing the truth.

With 2 out of 3 marriages ending in divorce, and a high number of those divorces being caused by adultery, you can see why some people feel that it is necessary to employ a private investigator.

You can imagine the scenario, or perhaps you have been in that situation yourself. Your partner or spouse starts to act differently. Perhaps they are more distant with you, or they start to work late or have unexplained weekends away. Whatever the situation that you are in, if you are feeling like this, then the only way to get to bottom of the different behaviour is to either question them yourself or to hire a private investigator.

You could suspect an employee of theft or believe them to be working with a rival company. Perhaps you are about to promote an employee and want to make sure that they ‘check out’ before you invest in them further. A private investigator could take on an undercover investigation to give you the information that you need to move forward with a decision.

Private investigators aren’t all beige macs, with trilby hats and blond secretaries. These days private investigators are probably best described as ‘surveillance specialists’, who use covert methods to investigate a range of cases. It could be anything to do with matrimonial disputes to corporate investigations to undercover surveillance and any decent private investigator will hold your privacy and confidentiality in the highest regard.

A private investigator will gleam as much information from you, their client, as they can and make sure that they fully understand what you want to achieve from the investigation and then they will get to work. Everything that they do will be laid out and documented with a full report and usually include video and photographic evidence, ensuring that at every step of the way your case is dealt with the utmost confidentiality.

The kind of services that you could expect from a private investigator are as follows:

Criminal Surveillance – A private investigation into criminal surveillance could include theft and fraud investigations and generally are carried out using mobile, onfoot, and static observations.

Civil Surveillance – In short this is documenting the movements of someone, but as with every private investigator this is done with the utmost great care and discretion.

Evidence Collection – A private investigator will only employ legal and legitimate techniques to obtain evidence crucial for corporate or matrimonial investigations, as nine times out of ten, this evidence is used in legal proceedings to dispute a lawful contract.

Environmental Surveillance – This could be possible pollution, illegal dumping or nuisance issues.

Process Serving – A private investigator will often serve summons, statutory notices and legal documents, should you need them to do so as part of their service.

Due Diligence – Due diligence and vetting services on both companies and individuals are also part of a private investigators job criteria.

Tracing – This could be missing company or personal assets, debtors, missing persons, suspects or offenders.

Compensation Claims – A compensation claim could include investigating accidents, unlawful dismissal, criminal assault, insurance or other claims against companies or individuals.

Whatever you want a private investigator to look into, they will do so with the sensitivity that you would expect and can also advice you on how to deal with the outcome, pointing you in the direction of organisations and groups that can help you.