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When your spouse is being cautious and you believe that he or she may be to heated up to have a private investigator follow them but you know who they are seeing, we often recommend that you have the private investigator watch the other person on those days when you think they may be meeting with your spouse. The “other person” is often much easier to watch and, lets face it, if they are seeing your spouse, your spouse will end up showing up at some point. The end result is you still get the proof you need to move forward with your life.

Many prospective clients worry that some way or another, their spouse can find out about our investigation and make us tell them what we learned.  The truth is, many of our clients tell people who they think they can trust about the investigation. Someone hiring a private investigator to catch a cheating spouse is big gossip, and people like to have the “inside info” to talk about. They tell another friend or spouse and off it goes. Word gets back to the target and the surveillance fails. Each month we have someone call who is wealthy and they are worried that we must already be working with their unfaithful spouse and that we will tell them, etc., etc. In all of the infidelity cases we have been involved with during the past five years, this has never happened. We also get the folks who are worried that because the cheating person is in law enforcement or is involved with someone in law enforcement, that all police will somehow know that we have been hired or that the target will “just know”. I have no idea where this comes from and no idea why people have this fear, but it too is baseless.

Many times a prosepctive client will ask us “what can a private investigator do that I can’t do myself”. In simple terms, we can charge people for our time. We do not have police powers, nor are we allowed to break the law, but we have tools and training that the public does not. Our training provudes us with ability to do what is needed to get our client’s the information they are seeking. An average person operating without that training is likely to fail and/or alert the person that they are investigating. As a private investigator, we also have access to better sources of information than you can find on the internet, etc. Some would argue that the most valuable tool a private investigator has is his or her contacts. Our rolodex is very valuable inasmuch as we have the right people, in the right places, to call for help.

When you work with a private detective on an unfaithful spouse case, they will always provide you with some type of pictures, most frequently, video. The one thing that will be absent is audio. In some states it may be legal to record a coversation when you are not part of it, especially when the conversation is taking place out in the open, but more times than not, we will not record the audio. For some, this may be a real problem, but we as a detective agency, have elected not to do so. This may not be a problem for you if the goal is to get the information, not a recording of it. What we mean by this is, if we have your cheating spouse under surveillance, and he is walking down the street talking openly on his cell phone, and we hear him telling his girlfriend how much he loves her, we can tell you about it, but we will not record it.

We frequently find clients asking us to go into a strip club to monitor an cheating husband. What you may not be aware of is the fact that these clubs often have equipment installed to detect hidden cameras. This is done for the protection of the girls working in these clubs who don’t want to end up on the internet (at least not without being paid for it). This makes it very difficult for us to try and get you proof of what goes on inside these clubs. If they do not have any type of hidden camera detectors, they often have the lights down so low that our cameras have difficult getting good video inside. This is also true of some dance clubs or homosexual nightclubs.