Perspective: Follow That Car - He's Nicked My Nightscope ; Businesses in the West Midlands Increasingly Employ Private Eyes to Check Up On Skiving or Swindling Employees. But How Do Investigators Catch People Out? Jessica Shepherd Spoke to One

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Washed-up retired policemen in trilby hats and raincoats who spy through the cut-out holes of a newspaper.

That is most people's impression of private investigators. And today it is less true than ever.

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Perspective: Follow That Car - He's Nicked My Nightscope ; Businesses in the West Midlands Increasingly Employ Private Eyes to Check Up On Skiving or Swindling Employees. But How Do Investigators Catch People Out? Jessica Shepherd Spoke to One

For with technological advances in recording and tracking devices and the internet, a private eye is more likely to be leafing through company records online than hiding behind a tabloid or broadsheet.

John, who has worked as a Birmingham-based investigator for five year...

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