Private investigators or private detectives are a secretive and shady bunch. Immortalized and highly glamorized by popular media, the calling of private sleuths are enamored in secrecy and intrigue.

Like all trades, the trade of private investigations also has definite tools and toys and unlike their counterparts from the printed pages of a novel or from the screen (small or big) they are scarcely that fancy or over the top.

Although I don’t think that someone expects a private investigator nowadays to fashion a make shift gun from a pack of cigarettes or explosive gels from toothpastes, but still people continues to believe that a private investigator owns and carries with themselves an arsenal of secret and outrageous weapons . 

Private Detectives in Melbourne uses these tools, mentioned below to offer Private Detective Services in that area.

Knowledge and experience 

This is the primary weapon of the private investigator. Your knowledge and experience is the weapon whose use you have to master and apply the use of intelligence generously in order to get your job done and to get a foothold in this industry. It is not possible for the private investigator to be a know-all on each and all subjects, so they have to rely on other people’s knowledge and experience. To analyze the situation or to select the best course of action, you knowledge and experience is your primary weapon.

Social Media

Social media nowadays is more or less an open book about a person. You can gauge their thinking, their character along with their interests and likings on social media. With social media you can find information about a person which otherwise may be hard to find. You can have access to long lost facebook photos and chat histories which can prove to be substantial evidence, only if you have the password which we may or may not be able to find for you. 

Public Records

Public records are one of the most extensive and enriched source of information, which most of times are overlooked. Public record can give valuable information like past criminal charges or booking history, traffic tickets, financial information, building permits etc. and many more. But please note this is not possible in Australia. 

Smartphone

A Smartphone is like the electronic equivalent of a Swiss army knife. With a Smartphone you can click pictures, make recordings, both video and audio with time and date stamp, record conversations and track locations using GPS. And the fact that everyone uses a Smartphone will stop people from taking notice of your surveillance process. These are the most primary and must have weapons for private detectives in Melbourne.