Private Investigator

Volvoboy · 11-08-2009 4:31pm #1

Anybody on here a P.I.?

Been considering doing a course in it for the last while, for those in the know what does it take to become one?

Looking online and there's this course, not to bad for €525

http://www.irishtraining.ie/career/investigations.html

x in the city · 12-08-2009 2:05am

and what sorta job would you get...

social welfare special branch...?!!:P

artful_codger · 12-08-2009 10:22am

previous experience as a SpyKid, or a member of the Famous Five would help greatly. Failing that, you could start off as a trusty sidekick with hacking skills and work your way up the ladder.

donkey balls · 12-08-2009 3:57pm

grow a ronny might help you along the way it did for magnum

Babooshka · 13-08-2009 2:47pm

....sorry! Would there really be much work in PI over here? Have a look at this link there are more helpful answers on it than here!

http://www.learningireland.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9554&f=39

Pablo Sanchez · 13-08-2009 5:47pm

Im sure you would do well if you got in with an insurance company investigating income protection claims but i dont know how easily that work is to come by untill you are well established.

leitrim lad · 15-08-2009 1:55pm

if your serious, and you do that course, contact me , i may have some work for you, it would involve tapping a couple of phones, and talking a couple of pictures,
tis a poor day when i have to go to such measures to catch out people who owe me money

Pythia · 15-08-2009 5:55pm

Debt collectors use PIs. I imagine their use could only increase in the current climate.

mikemac · 15-08-2009 6:24pm

leitrim lad wrote: »

if your serious, and you do that course, contact me , i may have some work for you, it would involve tapping a couple of phones, and talking a couple of pictures,

Tapping phones?
I seem to remember some government scandal over that.

Do you not need some court order?

Piste · 15-08-2009 6:33pm

Yeah isn't phone tapping incredibly invasive? If I found someone donig that I would be incredibly pissed off.

Pablo Sanchez · 16-08-2009 3:40pm

A court order is needed and can only (legally) be done by the Gardai.

Otis Driftwood · 16-08-2009 4:44pm

Its only illegal if you get caught.

mikemac · 16-08-2009 9:00pm

When I was in college a few years back and compo culture was rife the college had a load of claims about people falling in the car park.

To be fair there were steps and feck all lighting, hell I fell down one night but it didn't occurr to me to sue. More fool me

The college got a PI who put a van by the front door to video people coming in and out and then around the college campus
Like the girl with a neck injury but managed to play gaelic football........

That's where you need to aim OP.
With the recession, insurance fraud and divorces too will be on the rise.
If you can't take quality photos then learn!

Kalashnikov_Kid · 17-08-2009 12:22am

mikemac wrote: »

When I was in college a few years back and compo culture was rife the college had a load of claims about people falling in the car park.

To be fair there were steps and feck all lighting, hell I fell down one night but it didn't occurr to me to sue. More fool me

The college got a PI who put a van by the front door to video people coming in and out and then around the college campus
Like the girl with a neck injury but managed to play gaelic football........

That's where you need to aim OP.
With the recession, insurance fraud and divorces too will be on the rise.
If you can't take quality photos then learn!

Does that college begin with U and end with D by any chance?

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