privateeyeron
30-08-2008, 01:36 AM
Hello Fellow Private Investigators
I'm writing a book on what to do for those times that as investigators we get stuck and don't know what to do in certain scenarios. The scenarios can be something you have encountered and weren't sure of what to do, or something you always wondered about what to do if you did come across it. I've become stuck with not having enough scenarios to include in the book.
Here are a few examples of what I'm looking for.
1) You're a new rookie investigator doing a surveillance and following a subject. The subject stops at a house and enters a gate to a backyard that is lined with a tall line of hedges that would block your view from videotaping. Should you go up to the hedges and part them to gain a viewing vantage point? How about stand on something to view over the hedges?
I would include an answer that discusses privacy issues and how doing either would violate a person's reasonable expectation to privacy since you would have to go to extensive lengths to be able to view the subject. If there was some short two foot high hedges then that would be a different story.
2) Your assigned a workmen's compensation case. Upon reviewing the assignment you discover that you recognise the name of the subject. The subject is someone who used to do gardening in the apartment complex where you used to live years ago. The subject was not a close personal friend of yours. However, you would make idle conversation with him when he worked at your unit, and you would give him a cold drink if he took care of your personal plants on your patio . That was not part of the common area he was supposed to care for as his regular duties. Now as an investigator, do you take this case or do you notify the person who gave it to and tell them it could be a conflict of interest?
I would say that even though this wasn't a close personal friend, you should notify the person who gave you the case and have another investigator handle it. This way there is no chance your ethics would come into question.
Please email me your scenarios, so they remain private until the book is published. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
privateeyeron@yahoo.com
I'm writing a book on what to do for those times that as investigators we get stuck and don't know what to do in certain scenarios. The scenarios can be something you have encountered and weren't sure of what to do, or something you always wondered about what to do if you did come across it. I've become stuck with not having enough scenarios to include in the book.
Here are a few examples of what I'm looking for.
1) You're a new rookie investigator doing a surveillance and following a subject. The subject stops at a house and enters a gate to a backyard that is lined with a tall line of hedges that would block your view from videotaping. Should you go up to the hedges and part them to gain a viewing vantage point? How about stand on something to view over the hedges?
I would include an answer that discusses privacy issues and how doing either would violate a person's reasonable expectation to privacy since you would have to go to extensive lengths to be able to view the subject. If there was some short two foot high hedges then that would be a different story.
2) Your assigned a workmen's compensation case. Upon reviewing the assignment you discover that you recognise the name of the subject. The subject is someone who used to do gardening in the apartment complex where you used to live years ago. The subject was not a close personal friend of yours. However, you would make idle conversation with him when he worked at your unit, and you would give him a cold drink if he took care of your personal plants on your patio . That was not part of the common area he was supposed to care for as his regular duties. Now as an investigator, do you take this case or do you notify the person who gave it to and tell them it could be a conflict of interest?
I would say that even though this wasn't a close personal friend, you should notify the person who gave you the case and have another investigator handle it. This way there is no chance your ethics would come into question.
Please email me your scenarios, so they remain private until the book is published. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
privateeyeron@yahoo.com