PI Services
Our members can assist you with private investigation and security consulting services. Some of our firms offer a broad range of services while others specialize in niche services.
The following is a list of just some of the services our members offer. Clients looking for the services of a PI firm are encouraged to read all of the descriptions. There are one or more search terms at the end of each service description. You can use these search terms to narrow your results when you use our Corporate Registration Directory Tool Each firm that you find listed in the search return will have a more detailed description of all their services.
Investigators help gather evidence to determine if you have been defrauded through deliberate and improper manipulation of your accounting records.
Search Terms – Fraud; Special Forensics; All Services
Investigators skilled in uncovering evidence to determine if your copyrights, licenses, patents, etc have been used without your consent.
Search Terms – Fraud; All Services
Investigators help locate and identify assets and verify the ownership of assets. This is often done for use in legal proceedings.
Search Terms – People/Asset Locates; All Services
Involves the hand delivery of legal documents (also called process serving) for purposes relating to legal proceedings.
Search Terms – People/Asset Locates; All Services
Investigators help find missing persons or property. It is often use to recover property or other assets that have been ordered by the court to be surrendered or returned.
Search Terms – People/Asset Locates; All Services
Investigators gather thorough background or historical information relating to an individual or a corporation. A wide variety of techniques are used. These investigations are relied upon to make important personal, relationship, business or legal decisions.
Search Terms – Workplace; Family/Relationships; All Services
These investigations frequently utilize covert static, mobile and foot surveillance of claimants and skilled interviewing of witnesses. Highly skilled investigators with significant experience investigating body and traumatic brain injury claims can be found in this category.
Search Terms – Fraud; All Services
Involves investigations into the professional judgment or behaviour of professionals as it relates to their duties or responsibilities.
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These investigators focus on determining the impact of an injury or disability on a person’s future potential earnings.
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These services include the use of polygraph examinations, statement analysis (scientific content analysis) and highly skilled forensic interviewers.
Search Terms – Behavioural Science; All Services
Services often include mystery shoppers, covert surveillance, digital video, customer and employee interviews to document activities of employees while conducting their duties.
Search Terms – Workplace; All Services
Private Investigators used for overt and covert surveillance of union/labour actions. Private investigators cannot act as security guards unless they are licensed to also do those responsibilities.
Search Terms – Workplace; Physical Security, All Services
PI Firms that offer ON-SITE consent testing of family members or employees in the workplace.
Search Terms – Workplace; Family/Relationships; All Services
A service usually associated with business and corporate environments where customer, contractor and employee theft is prevalent. The persons involved in such offences can be highly skilled and motivated criminals.
Search Terms – Workplace; All Services
These firms must also be licensed to perform security guard work. Event security provides services protect the integrity of a public or private event while executive security helps ensure the physical safety of a person through close personal protections measures such as unarmed bodyguards.
Search Terms – Physical Security; All Services
Firms that investigate allegations of sexual or other physical/emotional abuse of persons including the elderly and children.
Search Terms – Family/Relationships; All Services
Such investigations involve both overt and covert investigation into how a parent or guardian carries out their duties to care for a child. Interviewing, surveillance and forensics can all play a part in such investigations.
Search Terms – Family/Relationships; All Services
A service that involves ensuring that individuals behave within the standards expected by the client. Popular with clients whose children are visiting from out of country, or who have elderly parents that need to be monitored to ensure their well-being.
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Services used to help assess the behaviour and character of a spouse or partner when they are away from the Client. The information can help clients to make important decisions or assist with legal matters.
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This involves analysis of an accident scene, the vehicles, equipment, tools or structures involved and the persons who are injured. Accidents may occur in the workplace or on personal or public property.
Search Terms – Special Forensics; All Services
Specialized investigation skills and knowledge used to investigate arsons. Arson scene investigation is an environment filled with biohazards.
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These services apply investigative, analytical and scientific knowledge and experience to interpret human behaviour and actions. Services include behavioural risk and personality assessment, assessing potential for violence, behavioural and geographic profiling, linguistics and statement analysis.
Search Terms – Behavioural Science; All Services
Forensic investigation pertaining to locating, preserving and identifying physical evidence such as DNA, fingerprints, bodily fluids, tool markings, bodily injury markings, trace and other types of evidence.
Search Terms – Special Forensics; All Services
Services involve paper documents and include handwriting analysis to determine the authenticity of a signature, or the age of the document using signatures, paper and ink aging techniques. Expertise in this field requires extensive training.
Search Terms – Special Forensics; All Services
A highly specialized field of endeavour that recovers lost or hidden data, identifies the what, where, when and how questions pertaining to digital information as well as recovery of data on digital devices.
Search Terms – Digital Forensics; All Services
Investigators prevent, track, and identify attempts to commit criminal acts using digital devices such as computers or cell phones. Methods used by criminals include attacking your digital devices with malware, use information in your digital devices to commit fraud or other illegal activity, or use your digital device to store illegal or stolen information.
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Investigators have the specialized training and equipment to enhance digital video to scientifically examine, compare or evaluate video, to improve the visual content of an image so that it can yield more detail, and to ascertain the integrity of the digital information.
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Investigation of phenomena not easily explained including alleged paranormal, religious and alien occurrences. Involves unbiased investigation relying upon scientific principles of research/inquiry to refute or corroborate the perception of such events. Identification forensics, forensic video analysis, polygraph and statement analysis, behavioural science, and instruments properly used and calibrated for the intended purposes can be utilized for such investigations.
Search Terms – Behavioural Science; Special Forensics; All Services.
Used to assess the state of physical security of your residence or business, then enhance your environment to provide more effective security and reduce your risk exposure.
Search Terms – Physical Security; All Services
This service is used by corporations and government to ensure that sensitive communications are not intercepted by unauthorized persons. A highly technical service requiring significant expertise and experience.
Search Terms – Physical Security; All Services
These firms have trained dogs to search for evidence such as drugs, explosives, cadavers, contraband or lost persons and possessions.
Search Terms – Physical Security; Workplace; All Services
These firms have personnel trained in undercover operations for infidelity investigations, infiltrating groups to uncover evidence of illegal activity such as internal theft and fraud. They are also used by businesses as mystery shoppers.
Search Terms – Family/Relationships; Workplace; All Services
Some PI firms offer training in various aspects of investigation. Search this category to find such opportunities. Students generally pay for training.
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Some firms offer consulting services as well as offer training in security and workplace violence. A security consulting license may be required for such work.
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These firms have developed high expertise and knowledge regarding the appropriate use of force at all manner of incidents. They can provide training and give expert testimony in both civil and criminal proceedings.
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