Can Private Investigators Investigate Cyber Stalking Cases ?
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If you have become the target of unwanted attention and harassment from a cyber stalker, you may be wondering in a private investigator can help you to locate and identify that stalker and help to bring him to justice. The answer to that very common question is yes. An private experience investigator can not only locate and identify a cyber stalker but they can document all the evidence and prepare a report that you can take to the police or prosecuting attorneys office for an arrest an conviction.
If you are the victim of a cyber bully or Internet harassment and you feel you're safety is in danger the very first thing you must do is notify your local police dept. Make sure that they take a report and take down the case number or report number. Try to make sure an investigator is assigned to your case and keep in contact with that investigator to keep them updated on any new developments in your stalking case.
Unfortunately many local police departments will respond to your original complaint but it will drop there. Your case may never even be assigned to the investigation unit at your local police department. If that is the case you may want to consider hiring a private investigator to conduct the investigation. He can not only obtain identifying information about your stalker but he can p[prepare a case that can later be followed up on by police or prosecutors. Very often after receiving the PIs report the police can duplicate the investigation and obtain the same results saving you the money of having to pay the PI for his time testifying or consulting with police and prosecutors.
In many cases a private detective can obtain more information that your local police department. In fact the very PI you hire may be the man that the local police turn to for training seminars to update them on the latest Internet tracing techniques. Private investigators are often free from certain restraints placed on public citizens to protect the publics right to privacy also.
Unfortunately for private investigators they do not have the power of a search warrant that law enforcement has so that tool is unavailable to them. However in a civil case such as a defamation case A private investigator can assist an attorney in preparing a subpoena duces tucem and serving that subpoena on the custodian of records at the cyber stalkers Internet Service Provider. These records along with corroborating evidence obtained by the private investigator could be enough to place an actual name and address to the IP address and ultimately and pinpoint the user on the computer at the time the crime took place. So remember if you have become the target of a cyber stalker the first thing to do is make a police report, if they do not solve your problem you can always to to a private investigator.
About the Author
Ed Opperman is President of Opperman Investigations Inc.If you need help with a cyber stalking investigation visit http://www.emailrevealer.com
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