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Difference in job skills and specialization.
Specialization
A bounty hunter sets out to do only one thing. To capture the criminal
who’d jumped bail and ensure the felon attends his or her court
hearings. There’s nothing complicated about this.
On the other hand, there are different kinds of private investigators,
and the work they do depends on the industry they are found in.
For instance, you can have private investigators that have degrees in
business, or accounting, working as corporate investigators. Part of
their duties is to conduct internal investigations to determine some of
the following:
Which of the employees, if any – are stealing and selling confidential
corporate information, intellectual property, or formulations or
equipment to competitors and other entities?
Are there employees who are falsifying their expense accounts or acting
irresponsibly with company equipment and fixtures?
Legal investigators on the other hand, are usually found as one of the
departments or division in law firms. Their work consists of the
following: locating and then interviewing the witnesses and the police
officers on the evidence found. Locating public records, and testifying
on what they’ve found during the trial. Part of their duties would
entail taking photos as well as organizing the legal defense’s
presentations.
For private investigators who work in the financial sector, their
sleuthing talents may consist of gathering formation to create a clear
financial picture or portfolio of a prospective partner or competitor.
They will search through banking and public records as well as conduct
interviews, to achieve this goal.
You will also find private detectives who work in the retail and
hospitality industry. For detectives who work in hotels, their main
function would be to prevent guests from leaving with unpaid bills.
They’re also hired to ensure there are no trespassers who’d create a
disturbance or steal the hotel and guests valuables.
For private detectives who work in retail stores or malls their work is
to ensure that shoplifting doesn’t happen. Some of them will tail
potential shoplifters to see that no crime is committed and to arrest if
there is. This is why many retail private investigators visit the
selling areas, dressing rooms and restrooms at different times in the
day. You may even find some of these private detectives visible on the
selling floor as a deterrent to stealing. In the bigger stores, you’ll
see them in charge of monitoring the selling areas in a control center
that has video cameras. Some will assist in the opening and closing of a
store.
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