Private Investigator in Oshawa

Oshawa Investigations

An Oshawa Private Investigator is a civilian in the employ of an Oshawa Ontario private investigations company hired to investigate “subjects” by a client. In Oshawa, the customer of a PI agency is known as the "client." The “subject” is usually a person or persons but can also be an Oshawa business. The customer can be an individual, corporation, and even an Ontario government agency.

What Does an Oshawa Private Investigator Investigate?

The Oshawa Private Investigator can investigate a wide variety of things; however, Private Investigators in Oshawa Ontario mostly investigate insurance fraud for insurance companies.

• However, with the rise of digital technology in the modern age, more Oshawa PI agencies are specializing completely on cyber investigations.

Oshawa Private Investigators typically take on investigative cases that do not fall under the purview of an ON government agency, such as civil matters while ON government agencies will cover serious criminal cases. Because a Private Investigator is just a normal Oshawa citizen, they do not have any special investigative privileges. A Private Investigator in Oshawa ON has the same power/ authority of any Oshawa citizen with the exception that an Oshawa PI is allowed to offer investigative services to customers (clients) and has the expertise in investigations. The cost of a Oshawa Private Investigator depends on the type of investigative service offered and the level of skill of the Investigator.

Oshawa PI Clients

The most common clients for Private Investigators in Oshawa are insurance companies, law firms, private corporations, and ordinary Oshawa citizens. Investigations conducted for these clients will frequently involve potential fraud. Other clients in Oshawa will want to obtain more detailed information in order to adjudicate or manage an insurance claim. Many of these cases are mitigated through the hiring of an Oshawa Private Investigator. They can include both surveillance and non-surveillance efforts.

• The non-surveillance includes background investigations.

Oshawa investigations often obtain more information faster than legal processes such as discovery (the pretrial disclosure of relevant evidence), thus providing the Investigator’s clients more information for decision-making.