Why Use A Private Detective To Find Someone?

At PDL, one of our core services is People Tracing and we’re extremely proud of our 100% success record of finding people when instructed – be they long-lost family members, or corporate debtors. A common question we receive directly – and hear of more widely – is “Why use a private detective to find someone?” The reasons are manifold, and comprise everything that makes us the trusted and successful organisation we are: Experience, Insight, Quality, Legality, Ethics, and Precision. Here’s more detail:

Reasons To Use A Private Detective To Find Someone

#1 – Our Immaculate Record

At PDL we have a 100% success record in tracing cases. We are extremely diligent and dedicated in protecting our clients’ interests and getting results – because our clients’ success is essential to our success. Our private detectives’ perfect record in finding people is the ideal exemplar of our quality and commitment, and a key point of reassurance for new clients instructing us to find someone.

#2 – Knowledge & Experience

By using one of our private detectives to find someone, our clients tap into decades of knowledge and experience that can’t be faked, or achieved elsewhere. Our operatives bring a wealth of knowledge to every case – based on the thousands of cases already behind them in impressive careers to date. Additionally, all the experience we’ve gained in our many, many successful tracing cases equips us with the benefit of hindsight, and sharp instincts for situations – which proves invaluable in the more complex person tracing cases.

#3 – Access To Information

At PDL, our key partnerships, access to data, and knowledge of where pieces of information are to be found all combine to give us unrivalled access to data, within our industry. We know exactly where to find any given piece of data – and we also know what is and isn’t permissible from a data protection perspective. Using tools has always been key to our private detectives successfully finding people, and we’ve invested and modernised repeatedly to ensure we continue to lead the way in the UK.

#4 – Legality & Ethics

A principle that has always been at our core – and always will be – is that we do not ever compromise legality or ethics in our operations. We make no exceptions to this, under any circumstances – and will err on the side of caution in any uncertain situation. It’s vital to us at PDL that we can provide our clients this reassurance – no matter what – so they can have full trust in our operatives, and in PDL as an organisation, as a whole. Where legality and ethics are particularly relevant to finding people, lies in the typical reasons for person tracing. That is to say – so often the results of our detectives finding someone for a client will lead directly to sensitive legal and financial cases. It’s vital that our clients have strong legal grounding in those cases, and consequently it’s also vital that everything in the operation up to that point has been handled with legal and ethical perfection – so as to not compromise the client’s chances of success.

#5 – Third Party Safety

It’s extremely common, when a new client instructs our private detectives, that they’re bringing a case that has previously been attempted by another organisation – which has regrettably not succeeded in achieving results for that client. A more recent phenomenon though, has been instances of clients having attempted to find someone, or to conduct surveillance themselves. We advise against this extremely strongly, for the following reasons: – The absence of the knowledge and experience, detailed above, that is crucial to a successful operation. – The potential to compromise your own legal case by acting in ignorance of the law. – Simply put – covert surveillance is an art, and is not easily recreated. Particularly if you are known to the individual – which, naturally, makes it near impossible.

#6 – Quality Of Operatives

We’re extremely proud of our reputation, 100% success rate, and the skill our private detectives use in finding people. Our operatives are selected to the highest possible standards, based on their abilities, backgrounds, communication skills, and conduct. Our operatives’ quality is the heart delivering success to our clients – and thereby the sustaining of our own fantastic reputation. Read more on Why To Choose PDL

#7 – Professional Witness Status (H3)

Our role as private detectives means we have “Professional Witness” status. This dictates that evidence we provide can be admissible in court – by the very nature of us being respected professional private detectives – which can be invaluable in ensuring our clients’ necessary legal outcomes are met. We’ve acted as a “Professional witness” on many previous occasions, and thus know exactly how to do so, to support any legal case that arises after using our private detectives to find someone.