Meet The Drugs Squad

What would you have felt if you'd come face to face with this bunch of likely lads on a dock side late one night in 1909?

This is an actual photograph of the Metropolitan Police Drugs Squad formed to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers working at Limehouse docks.

The first team of Met Police "plain clothes" officers started in 1842 with eight officers.

Sir Howard Vincent was the first...

The Grey Men

PI's are the real "Grey Men" of business crime.

Fraudsters and thieves caught out in their offending are often quick to claim that the investigator being paid to do their job has a bias towards their client.

Certainly, we are out to protect our clients's business and their staff's job security and we seek out those bad apples in the workplace Click here , the bad apples who destroy...

How many T Shirts can you fit in a car

That was the question we hoped the traffic department would not ask this week when we drove away from a shop selling stolen T shirts.

Photo shows the car outside our office before the shirts were sorted, exhibited and delivered to Police.

This is our "bread and butter" and if you think you have a staff theft problem then please give us a call.

How a monitored alarm caught a fraudster

It has become common for insurers to offer a discount if a homeowner has a monitored alarm system and certainly there is no arguing the benefits of having a good system, in proper working order being monitored.

This particular insured had some money issues and one of the first things to get cut was their monitoring costs, so they contacted their provider and cancelled the monthly fee.

A few...

Stop thief !! But the last one out pays

True story.. shortened significantly..., Airline staff kept complaining their property was being stolen from a particular hotel and the hotel security people had failed to establish how this was occurring. The Hotel CEO asked us to help. If possible he did not want the airline to know they had a problem and change hotels.

Posing as airline crew, we hired a uniform and joined the next crew...