It is worth knowing that the law provides private investigators with no a large number of tools for work. They have the opportunity to take photographs, interview witnesses, study documents and archives. The use of any other methods is prohibited. However, the demand for the services of private detective agencies is growing every day. This may be due to high level people's mistrust government agencies or a desire to maintain privacy. Whatever happens there, it is worth noting that today this business can bring quite a good income to its owner.

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How to open your own private detective agency?

Speaking about how to open a detective agency, it is worth knowing that first of all, an entrepreneur will need to study the legal side this issue. This will be the Law on Private Security and Detective Activities. IN this moment There are approximately 150 private agencies operating successfully in Moscow. It is important to note that each of them works quite “quietly”.

It is worth noting that a private detective can also provide detective services if he has a license that gives him the right to provide such services. The detective has every right to carry batons, gas canisters and even body armor as protection. However, it is important to remember that purchasing and carrying weapons is prohibited.

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What services are in great demand today?

The main assistants of a modern detective will be his own head and a laptop.

Quite often in films you can see that the detective bureau is monitoring the unfaithful wives or husbands of clients. However, in life everything is not like that. Most often you have to observe business partners and competitors. For example, before concluding a very important deal, one of the partners wanted to find out the information he was interested in and turned to a private investigator. The cost of such services will cost the client approximately from 100 to 5000 dollars. The amount will depend on how valuable the information was received.

Detectives who have been working on the market for quite a long time report that the direction of such services is constantly changing. More recently, there was a period when most of the orders consisted of determining nationality (during a boom in emigration to Israel). After that there were a large number of cases of stolen cars. Nowadays, foreign citizens are increasingly using the services of a detective to check the reputation of their Russian brides.

Today, each detective agency occupies its own niche in the market. Therefore, when collecting information on how to open a private agency, it would not hurt for an entrepreneur to think about what the company can specialize in better than its competitors, be it business intelligence or searching for missing people.

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Search for employees and remuneration

At the moment, the detective agency is a small business, and it will remain so for a long time. In order to start operating your own detective agency, an entrepreneur will need to hire about 4 people. It is important to note that most often detectives are members of the same family.

After the agency has existed for some time and becomes successful, people who previously worked in government security companies may begin to look for work with you. It is worth understanding that, firstly, such people will want high payment for their work, and secondly, the number of employees of 4 people is necessary and sufficient to ensure the productive work of the agency. At first, there is no particular need to expand your staff of workers.

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Possible methods of work for experienced detectives

It is worth knowing that each detective has his own methods of work. However, in many ways the detective is an actor. In order to obtain the necessary information, quite often you have to transform into someone. Most often, the detective carries with him a number of different fake business cards.

Detectives almost never have to work openly, nor do they have to introduce themselves. This is due to the fact that in this profession the most important thing is to work carefully so as not to let the customer down.

Quite a lot can be found out with the help of cunning. For example, if a client is receiving threats over the phone, and the operator refuses to provide subscriber information, it will be enough to simply call the number from which the threats were previously received and threaten that his phone will be disconnected due to non-payment of international bills. Most likely, the person the detective called will be confused and give an address to which bills can be sent, which will then give up the office. The professionalism of a detective lies in his ability to deftly find out all the necessary information.

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Possible fees that professional detectives can receive

From 100 to 250 dollars can be received for providing complete registration data of the interested Russian company, all information about its managers and founders (the deadline can be from 3 to 5 days);

A detective can receive an additional fee from 500 to 1000 dollars for determining the actual address of the office of interest, the number of employees, the terms of renting the premises, and for conducting an inspection accounts receivable, director checks (photo, place of registration, personal information, mobile and home phones). The period for completing this task is 7-12 days;

From 2000 to 4500 dollars the detective will be able to earn additionally for providing information about branches, affiliates and subsidiaries, annual turnover and balance sheet, information about customers and suppliers (list), credit assessment, detailed verification of two founders or managers (their immediate relatives, availability of property , criminal connections, handwriting and signature samples, past illnesses, shares and interests in other enterprises, military service, and so on).

In addition, information can be provided about the terms of the contract with one of the business partners, a sample letterhead, and so on. The period required to complete such a task is approximately 20-25 days.

In our country, private detectives are allowed no more than other mortals. According to the law, all their simple tools are oral surveys of citizens, study of documents, external inspection and photography of objects. But it turns out that you can make money with this too.

In the full thirteen years that have passed since the adoption of the Law on Private Detective and Security Activities in the Russian Federation, interesting statistics emerge. With safety and security in our country, judging by the numbers, full order: about 3 thousand security companies and a whole army of licensed security services (over 150 thousand!). But there is a clear shortage of private detectives: there are about 150 detective agencies operating in Moscow, while in the rest of Russia there are few Big City boasts five or six individual detectives. During this time, no large detective structures appeared in Russia. The law allows the organization of “detective associations with the status legal entities", which can "open their branches in other regions Russian Federation" But few people take advantage of this opportunity.

There are dozens of detective agencies in the world with international status and offices in many regions of the world. Governments and Wall Street tycoons do not hesitate to resort to their services. And where are our domestic Krolls and Pinkertons with thousands of employees? And in general: what are Russian detectives breathing today? “Business Journal” talked to detective Alexander UPATOV on this topic.

Atypical detective

The main format of the Russian detective business today is a lone detective with a license, registered as a PBOLE. Actually, he needs a license only in order to be able to officially provide the relevant services for a fee. It does not give special rights, only continuous responsibilities. And detectives are not even entitled to weapons - only special equipment “to repel an attack that directly threatens life and health.” That is, a baton, a bulletproof vest and a gas canister. In our country, only a private security guard can have a Colt under his arm, but not a detective.

The typical private investigator today is a retired law enforcement or intelligence officer. To a greater or lesser extent, he yearns for those operational-search capabilities that he once had during his government service, and with more or less success he fights the temptation to use them in his private practice.

In this sense, Alexander Upatov is not a typical detective. In the past he was not an opera, but a military pilot. He took up detective work after being transferred to the reserve seven years ago under the leadership of the famous detective Stanislav Arkhagov, who has now retired from work. He worked on his first cases, including under an agreement with the television program “Wait for me” (TV company VID), which he still considers an excellent school.

You know, I personally feel quite comfortable within the framework that the law sets for a private detective. “I have enough,” says Alexander and even flaunts it. - I don’t have anything “spyware” at all. A laptop, a pen and a head are my tools. And if you see any wires on my desk, it’s a cell phone charger!

Problems for the law-abiding detective

To a provocative question like “What can you, private detectives, do if you don’t go beyond the law?” Alexander smiles mysteriously. He clearly doesn’t want to talk about his methods.

Well, here’s a case from practice,” he begins reluctantly. - My customer, an entrepreneur, is going to buy a property, say, in the Moscow region. The issue of sale is decided by some administrative body. And the customer has unverified information that a competitor, meanwhile, is also trying to purchase this property and is even negotiating a bribe with one of the officials. My task: to find out who exactly the bribe was from and how big it was. How to approach here?

Outdoor surveillance, wiretapping and other special events? - I immediately assume.

Perhaps some retired intelligence officer would take exactly this path. But this is illegal, takes a long time, and would cost the customer a tidy sum. A simple survey, oddly enough, is much more effective...

Yeah, come right up and ask: do you know who is here and how much they are going to give? Yes?

For what? Prepare properly and create the right situation for collecting information,” explains Alexander. - Let’s say I meet with a competitor of the customer under such conditions in which, frankly speaking, he takes me not for who I am, but for an employee of that same administrative body. And a quick dialogue takes place between us. "Hello! We are considering your question. About the object,” I say. - “Oh, from Pal Palych?” - “Yes, assistant. So, he asked me to tell you that your case will be resolved positively if the amount is increased by twenty percent.” - “What are you talking about! More than 60 thousand is already too much!” That's it, the information about who and how much has been received exhaustively. The customer is satisfied.

So easy? Is it legal to act?

Firstly, I do not introduce myself as a law enforcement officer. This is actually prohibited by law. Secondly, it is clear that my interlocutor made a mistake and said too much. It happens to everyone? It's not my fault! And thirdly, it’s not so easy - similar situation create for a survey!

Maybe in this case “survey” is not quite the right word?

I consider a survey to be any obtaining of information through conversation, if it occurs without the use of violent or legally prohibited methods. Am I wrong?

Business intelligence fees

• $100–250. Complete registration data of the Russian company of interest, information about the founders and managers. Execution time: 3–5 days.
• $500–1,000. Additionally: actual office address; number of employees; premises rental conditions; checking accounts receivable; verification of the director (personal information, photo, place of registration, home and mobile phones). Execution time: 7–12 days.
• $2,000–4,500. Additionally: information about branches, subsidiaries and affiliated enterprises; annual turnover and balance; list of buyers and suppliers; credit score; detailed check of two founders or managers (ownership, immediate relatives, criminal connections, samples of signature and handwriting, past illnesses, shares and shares in other enterprises, military service); terms of the agreement with one of the business partners; sample letterhead. Execution time: 20–25 days.

Detective assortment

The law strictly prescribes what type of services a private detective can provide to citizens and organizations. The list is laconic - only seven items. “Best sellers” change over time. Once upon a time, the service of confirming nationality was in great demand. A man was planning to emigrate to Israel and asked to find evidence that he was a Jew. At one time, detectives were actively involved in the search for stolen vehicles. Nowadays, such an “export” service is becoming fashionable: foreigners ask to check Russian citizens whom they meet via the Internet for the purpose of marriage. Searching for missing people or people with whom contact has been lost is an eternal topic. Here detectives are no longer surprised by anything. An order may be received to search for a friend from school days, with whom the client sat at the same desk forty years ago, or for an urgent search for a spouse who went on a spree “after yesterday.” From clients of a romantic nature - please find a girl whom you met by chance yesterday in a restaurant, but were too embarrassed to ask for a phone number or forgot. What is very significant is that a service such as business intelligence or, to use the wording of the law, “identifying uncreditworthy or unreliable business partners” is gaining momentum. Either business activity is really growing rapidly in the country, or entrepreneurs have begun to think more about the security of their business.

Each detective has his own hobby. In Alexander’s portfolio of orders, for example, the majority are business intelligence and the search for missing people.

After talking with Alexander you understand: he is a detective a common person, only more attentive. And the detective business, in fact, is built on the fact that the detective has the useful skill of selecting information where others would not even think to look for it.

Is it illegal to stand in the smoking room of a company you are interested in, listen to what kind of “manga” they are talking about and what kind of business they are talking about? Or walk through the parking lot in front of the company’s office, memorize the license plates of expensive cars that most likely belong to management or key clients, in order to then “punch” them through the database - is this really necessary with the prosecutor’s sanction? - the detective shares some secrets of his craft.

This is the professionalism of a detective: knowing where and how to get information. Let this disappoint some customers who want to believe that the detective, while carrying out their delicate assignment, gets wet in the rain, endures cold and hunger and follows the trail, looking out, sniffing, listening...

I can admit that 80 percent of my work is desk work. I work with different sources of information, make phone calls, check databases. So what? Foreign detectives are not shy about saying that they use the Internet to the fullest. True, they sort through information on the World Wide Web not with “hands,” but with the help of a frequent “sieve” - special software, allowing one to establish chains of events and connections between disparate facts.

Detective with many faces

The truth is that in the course of their work, a Russian detective very rarely has the opportunity to introduce himself as a detective. Every now and then he tries on different roles: “I want to buy from you...”, “help, I’m looking for a friend...” And he has a variety of business cards printed - for all occasions!

From one landline cell phone The detective's client keeps getting threatening calls. The number is known, but it is impossible to understand who is calling and where exactly the phone is installed. Looking for approaches through a telephone operator is a long and tedious story. Again, the same specific “survey” helps out. The bad phone rings: “This is the customer department of the telecom operator,” the detective introduces himself sternly. “Do you know that we are turning off your phone tomorrow?” - “How is this, how is this?” - the interlocutor begins to worry. - “We give you two months of bills for long-distance communication, but you don’t pay!” - “Wait, wait, I didn’t receive anything! And there was no intercity traffic!” - “How did this not happen? Already three hundred rubles in debt! Let’s check the address - where to send the bills!”... The dumbfounded owner of the phone dictates the address and only then understands (if he understands at all) that the information was simply cleverly “taken” from him.

A detective must be a bit of an actor,” Alexander admits. - Personally, it helped me a lot that I rented my first office next to the theater. Vakhtangov and communicated with many of the actors there. Acquired many professional skills.

Playing openly often simply doesn’t make sense. Not only because the information will not be given, but because you will also set up the customer. You can’t say, for example, in some company: “I’m a detective, and I’m checking to see if you’re a reliable partner.” So the customer may be left without any partners at all - both conscientious and dishonest.

Business-intelligence service

Some people don’t really know how to hide commercially important information. Others don't know how to collect it. Still others don’t even realize how much important information can be gleaned from open sources. And still others cannot draw basic conclusions from the available facts. And it will always be like this. Therefore, the detective, this free plowman of the information field, will never be left out of work.

A simple visit to the office of a company you are interested in under the guise of a client can give you a lot,” says Alexander. - Once a customer asked to check one holding company. It seems like a serious office: there is a security service, an analysis department financial risks, even its own business intelligence unit. And on you: almost in the hall they placed a simple, unproductive paper cutter, and next to them were boxes of documentation prepared for destruction. I sat and sat there under the guise of a client, and then pretended that I was in trouble and rushed to the toilet. And on the way, I grabbed a few pieces of paper from the box, as if out of necessity. And guess what? It was in vain to make a joke: they had a lot of such papers already prepared there, in the toilet, a whole stack! They care about their employees! Using them, we later clarified not only the entire structure of the holding, but also the internal prices by which the divisions pay each other. The customer did not even dare to dream about this.

If only you knew from what rubbish the most valuable intelligence data grows! But business intelligence is not just about obtaining data. The detective transfers to the customer not just an array of information obtained, but its analysis. To do this, Alexander often has to involve third-party experts - criminologists, financiers, in order to use their findings in the report.

After checking a potential partner, we do not give the customer categorical recommendations, but focus his attention on the facts that are essential for making a decision. Suppose you are about to enter into a serious contract with a plant, and we suddenly find out that this plant has many months of debt on access roads. And how he is going to ship the products is completely unclear. This is, at the very least, a reason to think about it. In general, any information may be useful to the customer. Up to and including reviews from neighbors in the stairwell about the head of the company being inspected.

An entrepreneur may have many reasons for turning to detectives. Someone started buying up shares of the enterprise. Who exactly is behind the buyers? They offered fabulously good deal. Is there a catch? A new manager is hired for a key position. What kind of person?

Here, for example, is a case from Alexander’s practice, when he helped a customer save money. The customer, the owner of a small company specializing in the installation of electrical equipment, was going to participate in the tender. It was about a large contract in a complex under construction. Participation in the tender itself implied the development project documentation and serious expenses. The customer asked to establish whether there were any personal connections between the construction company organizing the tender and any of the other participants. The detective found out what they have, and what others: they communicate at the “Vasya-Pet” level, to the point that the applicant for the contract has blank forms of this in his desk construction company are lying. How did you find out? Again, through a kind of “survey” and comparison of data, without the use of unauthorized means. It is clear that such a tender did not promise anything good for the customer.

According to Alexander, he has long felt that he sometimes lacks knowledge. That is why he is now studying in absentia at two academies at once - law and finance. Wants to learn how to read balance sheets from a page as well as experts and identify financial risks.

By the way, it is interesting to trace the logic of development of the world's leading detective agencies. The private detective business is just over a century and a half old. The first agency in the United States was created in 1850 by former Chicago police officer Allan Pinkerton. At first it investigated episodes of train robberies. At some point, he became famous for preventing an assassination attempt on President Abraham Lincoln. Then he became interested in security activities and in the 1890s even earned a bad reputation, speaking on the side of factory owners against striking workers and trade unions. But in recent decades, the Pinkerton agency has spoken about its specialization only as follows: “Security consultations, investigations and identification of business risks.”

So the gradual evolution of a detective into a versatile risk management consultant seems quite logical.

Businessis this or not?

Can a modern Russian detective be called an entrepreneur in the full sense of the word? Or is this just a slightly romanticized form of self-employment? Advertisements for the provision of detective services are today published in the classifieds of popular publications, somewhere between advertising for tattoo salons and specialized companies for exterminating cockroaches. Among practicing detectives, there are experts in identifying unfaithful spouses and virtuosos in finding lost mushroom pickers. But that's it more people, engaged in the detective services market, understand that the main direction of growth is work in the b2b format.

Yes, in the near foreseeable future the detective business, it seems, will remain small, agrees Alexander. - Sometimes I get calls: take me to work! They ask for a salary of a thousand dollars... I explain that I don’t need a large staff, and I definitely won’t be able to pay such salaries. I have four employees and we manage everything very well. I can’t imagine what kind of turnover a detective association must have to keep several dozen detectives. Branches? I don't need them yet. We already work not only throughout Russia, but, if necessary, throughout the Russian-speaking CIS - wherever you can speak without an interpreter. And we even fulfill orders from abroad that come through the World Association of Detectives (WAD).

What do you want to achieve in the detective field?

IN Lately Private investigation seems to me more and more like a family business. A lot here depends on the person who is doing this, on his personal reputation and personal methods. I don’t want to transfer all these developments into strangers’ hands. Therefore, it is very pleasant that my four-year-old son is keenly interested in business. And he proudly says that his dad is a “detective.”

Your own detective

Some sources of valuable commercial information in Russia are completely open and accessible to individuals, and not just to government officials and law enforcement officers. In particular, this is the Main Interregional Center for the Processing and Dissemination of Statistical Information (GMC) of the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Upon request, the following information about any enterprise registered in Russia will be provided for a fee:

• annual balance sheet- 480 rubles;
• accounting data in the Unified state register enterprises and organizations (USRPO), including information about types of activities, etc. - 120–247 rubles.

In addition, the HMC can prepare a certificate with statistical indicators in whole economic sectors and various economic parameters.

GMC data is updated monthly.

Buying a brand new home today is not easy, because there is so much choice ( see infographic). “2018 broke all records: developers built 10.6 million sq. m. m, whereas a year ago it was 8 million sq. m. m,” said AiF Head of the analytical center CIAN Alexey Popov. “New Moscow remains the leader.”

There are so many “newcomers” in the city that buyers are increasingly looking at options in near Moscow region(there the interest is mainly in the urban districts of Lyubertsy and Krasnogorsk, as well as the Leninsky district).

By the way, according to statistics, only 8% of primary housing apartments are bought by residents of other regions. Everything else is sorted out by citizens with metropolitan registration. But this does not mean that Muscovites are crazy and have nowhere to put their money. Every second buyer considers only inexpensive options. But there are few of them in the metropolis.

In ZAO and SWAO there are no projects at all with an average price of less than 160 thousand rubles per sq. m. m, and apartments costing 160-180 thousand rubles/sq. m will not reach 11%. In the north-west, look for new buildings cheaper than 180 thousand rubles / sq. m. m practically meaningless. Therefore, if you are choosing an exclusively budget option, it makes sense to take your time with the choice. The fact is that last year the capital's developers received a lot of construction permits for future use and in the next 5 years houses will grow like mushrooms.

Will prices for new buildings decrease?

What will happen to real estate prices? Perhaps, due to the great demand for meters, they will climb up and even get a profitable mortgage, few people can afford to move to a new building?

According to Head of the analytical center "Real Estate Market Indicators IRN.RU" Oleg Repchenko, mortgages will become more expensive, and in order to maintain demand for apartments, developers will be forced to reduce prices: “According to our forecasts, within two years average prices may lose up to 20%.” The competition is high, plus the buyer is spoiled for choice. For example, people are ready to consider the first floor only at a good discount, and even then only after analyzing the improvement plans for the entire area. People are especially interested in new metro stations (which is always a big plus) and planned roads (which does not always please buyers).

And finally - about unusual apartments at high altitude. This year, construction of a building begins in the capital, which should become the tallest in Europe - 403.9 m. This is a skyscraper in the Moscow City complex, where 88 of the 109 floors will be given over to housing.

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The profession of a private detective is romanticized by cinema and literature, but in real life such activity is far from the work of fictional characters. But at the same time, more and more people now need the services of private investigators, who can often solve two types of problems at once: those that law enforcement agencies do not deal with at all and those that law enforcement agencies cannot solve. For a population that is limited in its capabilities, turning to a detective becomes the only salvation.

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However, the detective himself does not even have the right to carry a firearm. Therefore, you should immediately forget about shootouts, fights and other heroism; however, only children imagine the image of a detective in this way. A private detective in Russia is a person who can perform a certain list of services that do not involve the use of weapons. You won't have to hunt drug dealers. But in case of a truly out-of-the-ordinary situation, the detective can have a gas can or baton with him, and also provide himself with body armor. On the other hand, this is why even a person who is not too fond of dangerous situations can become a private investigator.

You can become a professional private investigator only after registering as a individual entrepreneur. You can, of course, open a legal entity, but in any case you will have to obtain a license not for the entire enterprise, but for each specific employee. Or rather, the employee himself will deal with this issue for himself. Registration is carried out at the local tax authority, requires payment of a state fee (and other bureaucratic minor expenses) and takes about a month. Activity code – (OKPD 2) 80.30 Investigation services.

An important step is obtaining a license for your activities. As already noted, it is issued to each specific applicant; you cannot open a detective agency, get a license for it and start accepting people from the street. If an entrepreneur works on his own, then he is dealing with this issue only for himself as for individual. At the same time, the licensing authority will consider the possibility of issuing a license only in a few cases:

If the candidate has worked for at least three years in investigative or operational agencies.

If the candidate has a legal education.

If the candidate has completed special courses in detective work.

You also need to submit certain documents, such as:

A copy of the Certificate of assignment of OGRNIP.

A copy of the document confirming registration with the tax authority.

Copy of TIN.

A copy of the extract from the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs.

Copy of the passport.

Copy of medical certificate (F No. 046-1).

A copy of the work book.

A copy of a legal education diploma or document confirming special training to work as a private detective.

A copy of the receipt confirming payment of the state fee for consideration of the application and provision of a license.

To obtain a medical certificate, you will have to visit more than one doctor, because the licensing authority carefully checks, in particular, the mental health of the future licensee. But you will also have to visit a narcologist, as well as many other doctors who will determine your level of health. After this, you must undergo fingerprint registration. That is, a private investigator forever transfers information about his fingerprints, but if he previously worked in law enforcement agencies, then he has probably already completed such registration. Finally, you need to pass a special test for professional aptitude, which asks questions that are closely covered in training courses for private detectives. As for persons with a legal education or former employees of certain structures, they are considered to know the answers by studying theory or work experience. Moreover, such checks will be carried out regularly, because the license is issued for a period of 5 years. The period for making a decision on issuing a primary license cannot exceed 45 days. The licensing authority is the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Yes, a license will not be issued if:

The applicant is under 21 years of age (18 is still too young to become a detective).

The applicant is registered in a mental, drug or alcohol dispensary.

The applicant has a criminal record or is under investigation (a license may be issued if the charges are dropped).

The applicant was dismissed from law enforcement service due to serious misconduct (as the law states “on compromising grounds”).

The applicant works or worked less than a year ago in law enforcement agencies that supervise the activities of private detectives and security agencies (after a year, you can apply for a license).

Companies specializing in this can help in obtaining a license, but in this case everything depends on the future licensee himself, and the office can only help in resolving bureaucratic issues. In order not to waste a lot of time, you should think about studying either at the Faculty of Law or taking private detective courses in advance. For people who want to become entrepreneurs, but have dreamed of becoming detectives since childhood, now there is an opportunity to make their dream come true. There would be money, because the courses, naturally, are not free.

As is clear from all of the above, registration, registration and licensing will take at least 2 months, during which you can already begin searching for premises for your office and employees. In general, private detectives are people who want to work alone, and without a permanent location of their office. That is, all negotiations with clients take place somewhere on neutral territory. However, today the client wants to see the level of the enterprise, and it is important for the agency to consist of more than one person. This is just an indicator, prestige, while the visitor’s issue can really be resolved by one person, but it is important for the visitor that the agency has greater capabilities. Again, in culture the image of the detective is invariably created as a lone man, but the man who follows real help, comes from practical considerations.

Therefore, it is better to find an office, rent it if you do not have your own premises. This may be a small room and not necessarily in the city center, but not on its very outskirts. Interestingly, not too many agencies are involved in private investigation. In a city with more than one million inhabitants, there may be 1-2 agencies, in the capitals - a little more than 10. But these are the private detectives themselves, whose competition is from some of the security agencies offering related or similar services. But still, the sphere of private security companies is direct security, not investigations. The office itself does not have to be large; the main thing is a reception room equipped with the necessary equipment. During the work process, you will need to spend a lot of time on the Internet, and also store your own information bases also needed not on a flash drive, so every employee needs Personal Computer and Internet access. The area of ​​the room is from 20 m2, and in fact it is a simple detective’s office.

To inform the population about your activities, it is best to advertise on the Internet and place ads on thematic portals. Regular ATL advertising (local radio and television, print media) can also be effective. The target audience of a private detective is people who are disappointed in the actions of law enforcement officers (for example, they go to a detective for help in finding a stolen vehicle), and people whose question the police will not take up at all ( classic example- determination of a spouse's fidelity). At the same time, according to the law of the Russian Federation, the activities of a private detective are strictly regulated, and he does not have the right to enter a home or collect personal information without the knowledge and permission of the person himself. As you know, in this country everything is allowed that is not prohibited, therefore, having a legal education, you can “balance on the brink”, engaging in almost illegal activities. The key phrase is almost that if you exceed your duties, you can answer in an administrative or criminal case.

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You need to understand exactly what can be done and what cannot be done. Fortunately, everything is relatively clearly stated in the law, but we must not forget that laws are constantly changing. So, just recently the licensing rules changed, and licensees had to get it again. A private detective, among other things, can perform the functions of a security guard, protecting citizens and property, as well as the functions of a lawyer, advising on issues relevant to his profile. The general list of the main activities of a detective looks like this:

Collection of information on civil cases on a contractual basis with the participants in the process; Here we need to emphasize that there must be an agreement. That is, it is impossible to obtain information about another person without his consent, but this information can be obtained by any other by legal means. Handing it over to the customer is also not a crime.

Market research, collecting information for business negotiations, identifying uncreditworthy or unreliable business partners; Everything here is relatively clear, the main thing is not to break the law and remember that almost no one will voluntarily transmit information. Moreover, legal entities are more careful than individuals.

Establishing the circumstances of misuse in entrepreneurial activity trademarks and names, unfair competition, as well as disclosure of information constituting trade secret; here, in general, the detective comes to the defense of justice.

Finding out biographical and other personal data about individual citizens (with their written consent) when they enter into employment and other contracts; This is done if the employer seeks to screen applicants for the positions they offer. To act within the law, you need to ask the customer for a form on which the applicant signed the agreement to verify it.

Search for missing citizens; here, too, everything is relatively clear, and this activity closely intersects with the work of the police. They seek such help precisely in the event of inaction by law enforcement agencies.

Search for property lost by citizens or enterprises, institutions, organizations; This is precisely where the search for a stolen car comes in, although this is also the work of the police.

Collection of information on criminal cases on a contractual basis with participants in the process; here it is important to notify the investigator in this case within a day. At the same time, you cannot obtain the same powers as employees of the prosecutor’s office or the police.

Search for a person who is a debtor in accordance with a writ of execution and his property. Often such services are ordered by collectors or banks, and the detective himself will receive money for catching the debtor; he will not have to collect the debt.

Search for a child by executive document containing a requirement to select or transfer a child; this includes all possible disputes regarding a common child, for the resolution of which it is necessary to find a parent or both parents, the child himself and all interested parties. It is possible that some of them may be outside this country.

At the same time, private detectives can also establish external surveillance of the object, because filming and recording is prohibited only on premises. A private detective can also offer the “anti-detective” service, that is, save his client from wiretapping or surveillance (by legal means, of course), help him figure out who is collecting information about him and why. If a detective, in the process of obtaining a license, indicated the need to use technological means, then he can not only use them in his work, but also neutralize them for his client. At the same time, in a private investigation agency it is very good to have legal consultant, who will help the office itself in case of problems, and will advise clients on issues that interest them. You may also need a programmer who can collect a lot of information about the desired user from the network. And it doesn’t hurt to have a competent economist on staff who will help solve problems related to fulfilling orders from entrepreneurs and organizations. Legal entities in general will be almost the main clients of a private detective.

The license gives the right to work throughout the country, so you should not miss the chance to take on a business that is taking place in another city. Some agencies cooperate with global detective organizations (a kind of private Interpol), and therefore it is better for a detective to have a foreign passport and the ability quick receipt visas to any country. The client’s order may well also involve long-term business trips on the other side of the world; However, the work of a detective also consists of routine work and sorting through old archives. Fighting crime around the world is certainly a lot of fun, but that's more typical for movie characters, and being a private investigator doesn't always require you to travel outside your own country.

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A detective agency may be an extension of a detective's private practice, in which case he will need trusted assistants who are also licensed to practice detective work. They go to the licensing authority office with certificates from their employer, where they go through the procedure for obtaining permits. It’s not worth hiring people who haven’t even been trained. And, of course, not everyone is given detective talent, and even a police officer who has worked for many years may not be suitable for such work. But licenses are not required for support staff; this applies to economists, lawyers and programmers who sit in the office.

The cost of private detective services is usually quite high. And although in most cases the work of a detective does not involve a risk to life, he should not expect to sit quietly in the office either (at best, in the archives, this is required for, for example, establishing nationality). Surveillance and monitoring are paid by the hour; searching for things or people costs fixed amount. At first, you may have to set a small price for your services, but as soon as you manage to gain popularity in the city, you can adjust the cost in your favor.

But in addition to the risks of being caught and sent into the forest to dig his own grave, a private detective also has quite economic risks. In small towns, it is unlikely that you will be able to make good money from such activities, because in a year you will only be able to receive an order from some jealous spouse. In large populated areas there will be demand for detective services from legal entities; You just need to remember that the detective who has taken on the order can no longer begin to act against his client. That is, by allowing yourself to be outbid, you will not only have to sacrifice your reputation, but also, it is possible, that you will have to answer according to the law. This type of work is suitable for a very small number of people, but it can be done if other passive sources income (for example, from your own other business or pension in the case of former employees law enforcement agencies), perceiving the private practice of a detective as a profitable hobby.

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