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UK: Blunders Before Father Tracked & Murdered His Daughter
THE ARGUS (Brighton & Hove) – September 12, 2016-09-12 By: Rachel Millard - Reporter The address of a girl who was shot dead by her father was accidentally sent to him by her mother’s solicitor. The seven-year-old and her mother had fled the violent man but he...
USA: New York Process Server Assault Bill Passes
July 03, 2016 - by Stephanie Irvine Legislation In New York, process servers and members of New York State Professional Process Server association are celebrating a significant win in terms of process server rights. As of the last Assembly meeting, held on June 17th,...
Switzerland: European Court Slams ‘Vague’ Swiss Snooping Laws
Oct 19, 2016 Switzerland lacks sufficient controls on the use of private detectives by insurance companies, according to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court ruled that such tactics had violated one woman’s right to privacy. The 62-year-old woman...
Scotland Yard in Corruption Scandal: Private Investigators Targeted Met Police Inquiries Like ‘Organised Crime Network’
Michael Gillard Claire Newell Edward Malnick - 7 October 2016 From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/06/scotland-yard-in-corruption-scandal-private-investigators-target/ The Scotland Yard unit which deals with some of the force’s most sensitive police inquiries...
UK: Private Law Firms Hired by Police to Pursue Criminals for Profit
Vikram Dodd - Sunday 14 August 2016 Private firms will use civil courts to seize fraud suspects’ assets, prompting concerns over profit motive Private law firms will be hired by police to pursue criminal suspects for profit, under a radical new scheme to target cyber...
UK: DPA Clarification – Section 29 – Judgment
This is a very important decision and one which the Investigator Sector should use as a precedent. From CMS – International Law and Tax experts: University privacy policies a purely academic requirement? The High Court in Bangura v Loughborough University [2016]...
INDIA – UP Constable, 3 Private Detectives Held for Selling Phone Call Detail Records
07-11 02:57 Catch News / View source Three private detectives and a police constable were arrested by the Delhi police last week for selling phone call detail records of individuals for prices ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh over the last two years. The CDRs were...
IQ Level 3 Professional investigator award / SIA competency test
As no doubt you have seen from the recent posting regarding Baroness Henig question to Her Majesty’s Government, as to what progress they have made on the introduction of a system of regulation for private investigators, as announced by the Home Secretary on 31 July...
WAPI Member praised in high profile stalking case
The family of Dr Alison Hewitt, who was recently awarded £130,000 compensation from the Home Office, has praised the private investigator who helped bring her stalker to justice. Dr Hewitt's mother, Pam, says Tony Smith of Insight Investigations 'helped save my...
Private Detectives Face Fines
Private Detectives Face Fines for Blagging Information for Clients Including Brighton and Hove City Council 6:29pm Wednesday 20th November 2013 - The Argus Private investigators who tricked GP surgeries, utility companies and TV Licensing into handing out personal...
Why Were Maddie Suspect E-Fits Kept SECRET for Five Years?
Why were Maddie suspect E-fits kept SECRET for five years? Images and evidence of sighting uncovered by private detectives were suppressed Images of man seen carrying child through Praia da Luz on the night of Madeleine's disappearance were unveiled on Crime...
Posted by PI Magazine October 7, 2013
Colleagues, There is no doubt we can all learn a very valuable lesson, especially by the wrong doings of a fellow investigator. A Connecticut jury has found Gerald O’Donnell, a local PI guilty of bribery and witness tampering. He was found not guilty of two...
CANADA – The Investigators
By Francesca Fionda http://globalnews.ca/news/881282/update-the-investigators/ There is some justice today for the Canadian clients and victims of two former private investigators. In February we brought you the story of Cullen Johnson and Elaine White after a number...
Former Private Investigator is 21st Hacking Arrest
A former private investigator has been arrested as part of a national inquiry into allegations of computer hacking and other breaches of privacy. The 58-year-old who is now retired, was arrested by police officers at his home in Reading, Berkshire, early this morning...
Judge to probe detective Daniel Morgan’s axe murder
A notorious case of a private investigator alleged to have been murdered because he was about to expose corruption at Scotland Yard is to be investigated by a judge. Home Secretary Theresa May will announce an “independent panel review” into the death of Daniel Morgan...
Marketer of Internet-Connected Home Security Video Cameras Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Protect Consumers’ Privacy
Posted by Investigative & Security Professionals for Legislative Action www.ISPLA.org Marketer of Internet-Connected Home Security Video Cameras Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Protect Consumers' Privacy Hundreds of Camera Feeds for Home Security, Baby Monitoring...
Name the firms who used Private Detectives or MP’s will: Keith Vaz’s warning to police who still haven’t revealed 102 culprits
The names of blue chip companies that used rogue private detectives will finally be revealed next week. Full story can be read here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410251/Firms-used-private-investigators-named-shamed-MPs-blue-chip-hacking.html
Rogue Private Investigators’ Clients Face Investigation
Rogue private investigators' clients face investigation. The clients were identified as part of an inquiry into private investigators An investigation has been launched into whether any clients of four rogue private investigators convicted of fraud breached the Data...
Woman Says Private Eye Saw Too Much
Woman Says Private Eye Saw Too Much By RYAN ABBOTT RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - An estranged wife sued a private detective agency, claiming it trespassed to film her and her boyfriend having "an intimate encounter," and gave the video to her husband. Catherine Williams and...
Bank Hires Disgraced Ex-Garda to Snoop on Debtors
22 August 2013 - BANK bosses have hired a disgraced former Garda detective to snoop on the lives of its debtors, the Irish Independent has learned. ACC Bank is using a private investigator who works for an agency which boasts of its use of ex-Gardaí. But the...
China Puts Corporate Sleuths on Notice Arrest of Two Investigators Indicates Effort to Limit Public Access to Private Records
SHANGHAI—The arrest by Chinese authorities of two private corporate investigators could indicate the latest effort by authorities to limit public access to sensitive private records. Briton Peter Humphrey and his American wife and business partner, Yu Yingzeng, were...
Rogue private eyes report published in full
A controversial report by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency detailing the activities of rogue private investigators has been placed on the internet. The investigative website Exaro published an "unredacted" version of the so-called "Project Riverside" report,...
Journalists’ body warns on private investigator laws
A journalists’ trade body has raised concerns that government plans to regulate private investigators could have ‘serious spin-off implications’ for investigative journalism. Full story can be found...
WAPI interviewed by Channel 4 News
BREAKING NEWS – Private Investigators to need licence
Operating as an unlicensed private detective is to be made illegal, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced. Full details can be found here: - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23519690
Ecuador embassy accuses UK firm for bugging
Ecuador embassy in the UK announced that the British firm Surveillance Group Limited had bugged the building. Read more at www.neurope.eu/article/ecuador-embassy-accuses-uk-firm-bugging
22 law firms on hacking list
A total of 22 law firms feature on a list of organisations and individuals linked to rogue private investigators, MPs have revealed. Legal firms feature most heavily on a list of 102 names passed to the Home Affairs Select Committee by the Serious Organised Crime...
Rogue Private Eyes : The Next Hacking Scandal
The agency often described as 'Britain's FBI' is being hauled in front of MPs to address allegations it has not done enough to deal with the threat posed by rogue private investigators who use criminal methods to access private information. So what does the Serious...
FSA in Private Investigator Probe
NEWS ITEM : FSA in Private Investigator Probe. Full details here: http://www.insuranceage.co.uk/insurance-age/news/2254088/fsa-in-private-investigator-probe
How to track down your inner Sherlock Holmes
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SIA Update
On the 1st November 2012, Governing Council members Ian Withers and Stuart Withers attended the SIA Seminar in London. There was very little content in respect of the Investigation Sector, however the SIA Chairman Baroness Ruth Henig did cover the Sector in her...
British Process Servers Guide
The Process Servers industry has been eagerly awaiting the publishing of the new British Process Servers Guide. Written by Stuart Withers, Helen Withers and Jorge Salgado-Reyes, the guide is the offspring of the old yet respected NIG Process Servers Guide 2000....
Home Affairs Committee Report into Licensing
Regulation of Private Investigators The Home Affairs Committee report into Private Investigators is now available from http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/publications/ The main recommendations are: -...
Journalists Join Private Investigators for WAPI “Blagging” Conference
The ten year anniversary of the World Association of Private Investigators, WAPI, will see journalists attending their conference and banquet on Saturday 19th November 2011 in order to get the hard facts and law behind hacking and blagging. There have been many major...
WAPI ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR AFTERNOON SEMINAR SPEAKER
Saturday 19th November 2011 De Vere Devonport House, King William Walk, Greenwich, London, SE10 9JW DAVID SWARBRICK David Swarbrick was a solicitor in private practice for over thirty years and now writes on legal issues, publishing the lawindexpro case law database,...
GC Member attending Conservative Party Conference – and will express WAPI members concerns
The Conservative Party Conference - 2 October 2011 GC Member Ian Withers will be attending the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester from Sunday 2nd October 2011. On behalf of WAPI he will be distributing the following Release to as many MP's as possible to...
WAPI Vice Chairman was interviewed on BBC Radio5 on the latest phone hacking scandal that is on the front pages almost daily!
Yesterday the nation awoke to the news that the News of The World phone hacking scandal had taken another dramatic turn, murdered teenager Milly Dowler's mobile phone may have been hacked whilst she was missing in 2002 and her parents phones may too have been...
WAPI supports ABI on phone hacking furore
The World Association of Professional Investigators concurs with the following statement published by the Association of British Investigators, which is now partly re-produced by kind consent of the Association of British Investigators. Unlawful Practices The...
UK – CRB (Criminal Record Bureau) Checks
Following the mass of emails and communications received from the UK Investigation Sector generally over the past week, the Governing Council has directed me to respond to the topic as follows. A number of Issues have arisen in respect of the proposed requirement for...
Introduction from the Chairman
Users of Professional Investigative Services including members of the public, legal profession, business and corporate clients, are able to select a credible Professional Investigator who is recognized as a “professional” and as such is a member of an established and approved professional association such as The World Association of Professional Investigators (WAPI).
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Update from Chairman July 2023
Tony Smith, Chairman