PI’s Declassified!

The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE, plays a significant role when a report of a sexual assault has been made. The sexual assault nurse examiner conducts forensic examinations on reported victims and suspects of sexual assault events and has special skills to assess patients, identify injury, and collect evidence. A SANE nurse must be objective and a good listener. The forensic nurse will memorialize the examination both through documentation and photography, all which will be incorporated as part of the criminal discovery file.

Forensic Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Cari Caruso is just the person to ask about the examination process and serves as an expert examiner and an objective consultant for both prosecution and defense. Tune in to listen to Cari discuss the kinds of evidence she looks for during an exam and hear her experiences while performing these important protocols.

Licensed Private Investigator Hal Humphreys, CFE, has a passion for learning. So much so that he became the executive editor of an on-line PI rag called Pursuit Magazine. He is the Director of Education for PI Education, an on-line education platform for private investigators.

Why do private investigators

need education, you ask? Didn’t the majority of them become private investigators after working in law enforcement? Haven’t they already been trained? What’s the big deal? The answer is that it IS a big deal.

First, law enforcement typically operates with different rules than the private sector. They don’t have to be as concerned about privacy. But, even more importantly, laws change…every year! How does Joe and Judy PI find out about any changes in the law unless there is a requirement for continued education. Join Hal Humphreys on PI’s Declassified! discuss ongoing education and its benefits to themselves, the consumer, and the legal community.

Is the private investigation profession shrinking due to governmental regulations or local laws, or do private investigators have to start looking at their work with a different perspective? To be successful, a private investigator has to run their agency like a business, a skill that is often underdeveloped before entering the field. Having some expertise or getting advise in the areas of business administration, personnel, public relations, and marketing are key. No longer can a PI continue to provide investigative services without understanding how to run a business nor offering a single service or product. The world landscape is in flux. Terrorism and mass shootings point to a need for those with security experience to step forward. Therefore, security consulting is a viable niche area worth exploring for expanding a PIs influence. Join PI’s Declassified! to hear security expert, William “Bill” Blake discuss the value and benefit of becoming a security consultant.

What is pretexting anyway? Much maligned and extensively misunderstood, pretexting has a negative connotation to those outside the borders of both private investigation and law enforcement. Nevertheless, pretexting is a useful, practical, and valued investigative tool. Imagine a private investigator telling their true identity to a fraudster or a non-custodial parental abductor. Visualize a private investigator wearing their identity on either their jacket or their vehicle when investigating the manufacture or sale of counterfeit products or conducting an undercover operation. Join PI’s Declassified! to hear a lively discussion on the controversy surrounding pretext and the dos and don’ts with Private Investigator Brian DeAntonio.

Where do you turn when information is needed in Africa, whether it is conducting research or a background check? How do you go about vetting an individual from an African country? This could include something so basic as determining someone’s full name, details of their identity card, validation of academic certificates, professional qualifications, or property ownership. As the world becomes smaller, it becomes more and more necessary to know who to contact to obtain critical details. Tune in to hear Nairobi, Kenya’s Sam Jim Mwanyasi discuss risk management from an African perspective.

What is the process of extracting images from a video? With the advancement of technology, there is video evidence everywhere you look. It is on street corners, inside and outside stores and other buildings, parking lots, on highways and at toll stations buildings. It is unusual not to be video recorded, particularly in an urban environment. There are Smartphones and police officer body cameras. Cameras are watching us, and they become a critical component of a criminal, and even a civil investigation. Tune into PI’s Declassified! to hear former NYPD Detective Eric Grimes discuss his work as an expert witness and a video extraction specialist.

What should you look for when hiring a private investigator? Where do you find one who is competent and professional? How do you determine if he or she has the skills and knowledge required for your particular case? Does the case involve fraud? Is it personal injury or criminal? Is it the type of case requiring a specific expertise? Join PI’s Declassified! to hear Board Certified Legal Investigator and Certified Criminal Defense Investigator Dean Beers discuss what to look for when hiring a private investigator.

Award winning correspondent, Diane Diamond, always has a story in the wind. And she loves to work with private investigators who often have the inside scoop both on the front lines as well as behind the scenes. What is it like to cover the headline making crime stories of the day, every day? How does a lifetime of covering crime impact the journalists who cover it? How does an intense news-breaking story as big and as shocking as the Michael Jackson or Jerry Sandusky cases impact the life of an investigative journalist? Diane Dimond knows and is willing to talk about it! Diane promises to be entertaining, educational, and informative. Definitely a show not to miss!

It is impossible to imagine the horror of the Holocaust. It is unbearable to see children torn from their parents, never to be seen again. Even though those who survived were liberated almost seventy years ago, the pain is deeply entrenched. While some sit on the sidelines and morn, Private Investigator Fred Blum takes action. Tune in to hear Private Investigator Fred Blum discuss the path he traveled to locate not only his own family members, but to locate scores of others from families fractured by this catastrophic stain on history.