Calls for clarity from the Home Office on the timing of regulatory change for the private security industry have been issued by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), following last week’s announcement that the regulation of private investigators is to be introduced as early as 2014.
An independent inquiry is to be launched into the death of a Thornton Heath private detective brutally killed with an axe more than 26 years ago.
Home secretary Theresa May is expected to announce later this month a judge-led review into the murder of Daniel Morgan, who was found with an axe lodged in his head in pub car park in Sydenham on March 10, 1987.
No one has ever been convicted of the crime, despite five criminal investigations and 37-year-old Mr Morgan's family's relentless campaign for justice.
A Jewish private investigator has tracked down the family of a British prisoner of war who saved a Jewish girl from Nazi persecution.
Anthony Davis, from Manchester, dedicated his professional services free of charge to locate families of PoW’s who helped hide Lithuanian-born Sara Matuson in a hayloft at the Gross Golmkau PoW camp, in northern Poland, for four weeks in January 1945.
Now known as Sara Hannah Rigler, the 84-year-old survivor lives today in New York and has written a book about her experience, Ten British Prisoners of War Saved My Life.
Private investigation firms are multiplying across the UK: As the technology used by undercover snoopers becomes cheaper and increasingly advanced, the practice continues to grow, with even town authorities using them to bypass privacy laws.
‘A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens’ is a widely cited statistic in the UK, despite exact numbers being difficult to calculate. However, surveillance takes on a much more human guise in the form of the private investigative units which have sprung up around the country.
According to the Telegraph report, police have warned the public to be on their guard for bombs at cash points, after thieves blew a hole in the wall to steal money from a cash machine in a petrol station in a quiet Hampshire village. The blast was said to have shaken homes and started a small fire at the petrol station.
Lancashire based Progress Debt Recovery has just launched a new service aimed at solicitors following a 6 month successful trial period.
Progress has now officially launched one of the UK’s lowest cost process serving services following a successful trial amongst a select number of Lancashire based solicitors and this service is now being rolled out nationally.
Home Secretary Theresa May was today under growing pressure to order a judicial inquiry into one of London’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Mrs May has delayed for 13 months a decision over whether to order a judge-led probe into the death of Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was found in a south London car park with an axe embedded in his skull in 1987.
In an unprecedented step, the victim’s family and one of the prime suspects today united in their calls for Mrs May to order an independent inquiry.
World known Sherlock Holmes would have envied modern private investigators, who have on hand not only deduction but social networks as well. However, in practice the world of private detectives is not as romantic as described in novels of Conan Doyle and Edgar Poe. To learn about the life of private investigators ForUm has engaged into its own investigation.
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All private investigators in England and Wales should be licensed or at least registered, a committee of MPs has recommended.
The Commons home affairs committee made its call for a two-tier system in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
MPs heard 2,032 private investigators are registered as data controllers but industry groups claim up to 10,000 people work as private eyes.
The Home Office said it was waiting on the outcome of the Leveson Inquiry.
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