Tony Smith

At some point, the Home Office are going to begin enforcing new licensing regulations amongst all private investigation firms based in the UK. The SIA (Security Industry Authority) will be taking over the management and enforcement of the soon to be amended Private Security Industry Act of 2001. While at first glance this may seem…

You need to beware of rouge private investigators, more now than at any time. We at Insight Investigations have been alerted to a number of rogue private investigator companies and we have mentioned this in the past. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has published its contact with the Chair of Committee to provide in-depth

We’ve written numerous times about Private Investigation Blaggers and the negative stigma attached to the Private Investigation industry, which still completely lacks any official regulatory body. As we have previously stated it is very important to be able to distinguish between a proper legitimate private investigation firm and these ‘blaggers’ who have been caught and

Insight featured in an article by Oscar Quine in the independent last week, when he hired us to dig up as much information as we could from his social media profiles in light of the Paris Brown story in the news lately. 17 year old Paris Brown was forced to step-down as Britain’s first youth

Northern Ireland businesses have been the target of fraudsters who ran up bills of over £10,000 by hacking the phone lines of businesses in the area. An independent telecoms company in the area, Rainbow Communications, has said the scam is on the rise. One firm in Belfast lost £10,000 over the course of a single

As it stands in the UK, anybody can become a Private Investigator as the industry is completely unregulated. While at Insight we always operate entirely within the law, it is widely accepted than many others in the private investigation industry do not. There are numerous voluntary bodies, but the same problem stands as anybody can

There are many shocking statistics around the area of being stalked, with research by scientists now stating that one in five women and one in ten men aged between 16 and 30 in the UK fall victim o stalking. But so many are convinced that they know their stalker personally, or the signals are so

Almost as common as telling the truth, lies can be heard day in day out in every home and business. Not all lies are meant to be taken seriously or to cause any negative situations as a result of whatever the false tale may be; however there are times when knowing how to spot a liar could