The Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado – in association with Region 6 of the
National Association of Legal Investigators presents Wild, Wild West Training Conference
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The OPIA is expecting about 75 PI’s from Texas, and wants everyone in Oklahoma to come join the fun!
The event will be at the Holiday Inn Airport in Oklahoma City.
More information will be coming. Visit the OPIA web site for details.

August 28 - September 1, 2007 (Tues - Sat)

2007 Annual Conference

Zurich, Switzerland
Renaissance Zurich Hotel
82nd Annual W.A.D. Conference

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October 3 - 5, 2007
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004
202-638-5900
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Employers that suspect that employees have been stealing should know the rules governing their investigations–and whether an employee’s confession will stick in court. The Appeals Court of Massachusetts recently reviewed some of the rules for employer investigation of suspected workplace theft.

What happened. Claire Miller, a cashier at a Home Depot store [location not stated] had $1,000 missing from her cash drawer when she finished her shift on February 23, 2003. The next day, two investigators from The Home Depot’s loss prevention group asked her to leave her register and led her to a small room. There, Miller said, one of them loomed over her and the other blocked the door. They refused to allow her to call her husband or a lawyer and told her she could leave the room only after she signed a confession.

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An outside firm will be hired to conduct a separate investigation into the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge, the busiest bridge in the state.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that although he has faith in the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, he wanted a parallel investigation. A forensic engineering firm, Wiss, Janney and Elstner, will lead the investigation.

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There are dozens of ways to get information about people on the Internet. If Friendster, MySpace and Facebook don’t give you enough dirt, there are private online detective services that ask for a small fee in exchange for a promise of a lot of information on whomever you choose to investigate.

My editor, Michelle Holmes, asked me if I wanted to sign up for an online detective service to see how well they work. These are the companies that claim to have information about anyone and everyone, and for a $29 fee, I too, would be able to become an anonymous researcher with all the information about everyone in my world. I was hooked.

Michelle handed me her credit card, and I signed up for Net Detective, a Florida-based company that claims to be the No. 1 spy on the Internet. I eagerly got to work plugging in my name, excited to see what the rest of the Internet world could discover about me.

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The partial Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for licensing private investigation and precognition agents has been approved by the Home Office and has been published.

The Private Security Industry Act 2001 sets out under Schedule 2, Part 1, that the Security Industry Authority (SIA), has the remit to consider the licensing of Private Investigation (section 4) and Precognition Agents (section 4A).

This consultation document sets out the options for the future regulation of the activities of private investigation and precognition agents. The RIA illustrates the need for licensing on the basis of the potential harms posed by these activities. It then shows different options for regulation of one or both sectors to address these harms.

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BUENA VISTA, Pa. - Inside the home’s front door lay a bare, blood-soaked mattress and box spring.

The house was infested with fleas, the plumbing was backed up, much of the furniture was broken and the stench of cat urine filled the air.

Matthew Booth, 34, was lying face-up on the mattress when he was shot in the head early July 30. His 13-year-old daughter told investigators she used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot him in the face, a crime that her attorney said was precipitated by years of sexual abuse.

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Retail: $279.95 PI Gear price: $195.00 | Click here to BUY NOW!!!

Our new interchangeable button and screw lens color hardwired camera set features 2 buttons and 2 screw lens covers make this new set interchangeable and multifunctional camera set great for covert operations. The high resolution CCD camera set is perfect for use with any of our Miniature DVRs. The lens covers are easily changed for any situation which need covert video.

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