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Becoming a Private Investigator in California

Becoming a private investigator in the state of California requires drive and dedication. Before applicants can even apply with the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), they must accumulate several thousand hours of professional investigative experience certified by their employer. Some types of educational degrees and some specialized professional experience in a few different fields may be used to reduce and/or count toward some of those hours, but for most prospective L.A. private investigators, they’ll need to find employment under a qualified manager (a specially-licensed detective) who can certify their professional hours over several years. Kinsey Investigations is a licensed and insured California private investigations firm with qualified managers who can help those interested in becoming private detectives. For more than two decades, we have guided many aspiring P.I.s on their path to realizing their dreams, and if you’re looking into becoming a Los Angeles detective, we can do the same for you.

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How to Hire the Best Los Angeles Private Detective Agency

Kinsey Investigations is the Los Angeles detective agency to trust any time you need to hire a California private investigator. Our female private detectives have more than 20 years’ experience working all kinds of cases in Los Angeles and Orange counties. From child custody and child support cases to locating missing persons, or infidelity investigations, Kinsey Investigations has an outstanding record of meeting our clients’ needs. Recently voted among the best private investigators in Los Angeles for the third time, our firm has dozens of five-star online reviews from both our individual and business clients, many of whom have worked with us more than once. If you need to hire a Los Angeles County investigator, we urge you to do your research and ask around for a referral. In all likelihood, Kinsey Investigations will be the California private investigations firm you call.

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Kinsey Investigations for Computer Forensics Cases

Computer forensics investigations are requested by both individual and corporate clients for the purpose of finding and retrieving data. When a desktop or laptop computer suffers a major system error or a hacking or virus attack, it may become inoperable. If important data was stored on the machine’s hard drive and not backed up to secure cloud storage, retrieving files and other important information may become the work of a computer forensics investigator. Conversely, sometimes it’s not the computer, but its current or former user who has attempted to lock files or other data away from a romantic partner or an employer. In these cases, a computer crime investigator will use computer forensics skills to unlock the machine and retrieve what was hidden. Kinsey Investigations has extensive experience performing cyber forensics for both individual and corporate private investigations clients. Our L.A. private investigators have the computer forensics experience to assist in many different kinds of cyber forensics cases. If you need to uncover and/or retrieve data from any kind of computer, contact our firm first.

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A West Hollywood Private Investigator Who Cares

A West Hollywood private investigator has to have more than private investigation experience to be good at what they do. Any private detective agency taking on West Hollywood private investigations also needs experience working in the diverse, fast-paced culture of this city. No matter how much professional acumen a California private investigations firm brings to a West Hollywood case, they’re going to falter if they’re not familiar with the city itself. West Hollywood grew out of a deep desire by its population to create a safe and accepting culture for many people who had never felt safe or accepted elsewhere. Today, West Hollywood draws visitors and tourists from around the world, but of course it’s the people living and working here who make West Hollywood so special. When an individual or a business in this city needs private detective services, they need a West Hollywood private investigator they can trust. They need someone who’s entrenched in the community here, and usually, they need someone who’s going to work their case as much from the heart as the head. They can find that West Hollywood private investigator at Kinsey Investigations.

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Best Private Investigator in Burbank, California

Not all private investigators working in Burbank, California have the same qualifications. An L.A. private investigator who spends most of their time in Long Beach cannot bring the same level of nuance to a Burbank private investigation as a private detective who’s spent decades working in Burbank and its neighboring communities. Private detectives more familiar with Burbank, its geography, industry, and culture have a big advantage when it comes time to work a cheating spouse or missing person case here. Kinsey Investigations is a licensed and insured California private investigations firm offering a full catalog of private detective services to both individuals and businesses in Burbank and the surrounding area. Unlike some of our competitors, we’re extremely familiar with what living and working in Burbank is like as well as how it’s different from doing life elsewhere in the Los Angeles area. If you’re a Burbank resident or an owner or manager of a business in Burbank wondering “who’s the best private investigator near me,” save yourself valuable time, and make Kinsey Investigations the first private detective agency you call.

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Spotting a Catfish: Tips from a Los Angeles County Investigator

Los Angeles County investigators have noticed increased instances of Internet catfishing since the beginning of 2020. Online catfishing involves impersonating someone else online. Sometimes, a catfish impersonates an actual person, but perhaps even more often, the profiles these fraudsters create are fictional people cobbled together from images and information pulled from the web, as well as the catfish’s imagination. Any seasoned California private investigator can tell you, the types of people and their reasons for catfishing, as well as what they hope to gain from it, are too numerous and varied to list, but many common threads run through catfishing behavior. From strange and inconsistent social profiles to a strong preference for text-only communication, most catfish have one or more tells that can tip off any savvy person to their ruse. Filmmakers Nev Shulman and Max Joseph who originally made the MTV Show Catfish were not private detectives but that didn’t hinder them from tracking down the true identities of many of the people featured on their show. If you suspect that someone you’ve met online may not be communicating honestly with you, bringing in a California private investigations firm to determine the truth could save you a lot of time, heartache, and even money.

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Hidden Finance and Assets Investigations in California

Assets investigations in Los Angeles and throughout California may focus on an individual or an organization. At Kinsey Investigations, we can provide both personal and corporate hidden assets investigations for our clients. While most people think of net worth primarily in terms of dollars and cents, California private investigators know that especially in hidden assets investigations for individuals, assets may include real estate, vehicles, luxury items, jewelry, and even collectibles. Of course, domestic and offshore financial accounts as well as stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrency holdings also contribute to an individual’s net worth. Kinsey Investigations has more than two decades of experience working on hidden assets investigations throughout Los Angeles County and southern California. Recently voted one of the Best Private Investigators in Los Angeles for the third time, Kinsey Investigations should be the first California private investigations firm to call for any kind of assets investigation.

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Finding Missing Persons in Los Angeles

Finding a missing person in Los Angeles or the surrounding area presents unique challenges and requires specific expertise and knowledge about southern California. Experienced L.A. private investigators can work more efficiently and expediently, because they’re already familiar with the different cities and communities here. At Kinsey Investigations, our team of female private detectives know that a tip about a missing person spotted in Brentwood or Westwood will need to be approached differently than a similar tip coming out of Long Beach. In our diverse communities and varying landscapes, what will work best to locate someone will be subtly or even vastly different depending on the details of the case. Everyone from small children to vulnerable older adults can suffer a circumstance that causes them to go missing. It’s every family’s worst nightmare, and that’s another reason to consider calling a female private investigator first. Kinsey Investigations gets referred for missing person cases as well as array of other highly emotional family law cases, because even our competitors realize we’re best equipped to handle these sensitive investigations. When it comes to locating a missing person in Los Angeles County or elsewhere in California, our clients benefit from our ability to approach the situation as much from our hearts as from our heads. Because every day and hour count in every missing person’s case, it’s often especially tragic when we get a call from someone who’s already been working with only law enforcement or with one of our competitors for several days with no leads. Especially for highly emotional and time-sensitive investigations, it pays to call Kinsey Investigations first.

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Call Kinsey Investigations for Heir Searches in California

Heir search private investigations are one of many types of private detective services offered by Kinsey Investigations. Heir searches usually involve looking through several generations of a family’s relatives to determine if any additional heirs may be living and legally entitled to an interest in various kinds of property. Heir search investigations may be required for executing wills/trusts, to secure the right to distribute or sell various kinds of property, or to locate potentially unknown heirs who may have a legal interest in a family’s wealth or inherited property. When real estate or other types of family assets are set to be inherited, distributed, or sold, anyone with a legal interest in the property should be notified and included in the process. When heirs or suspected heirs are no longer in contact with the rest of their families, a California private investigator can help locate them. Voted one of the best Los Angeles private investigators, Kinsey Investigations has an experienced and savvy team of female private detectives who are experts at heir search investigations. Our decades of experience conducting these and other kinds of private investigation services make us the ideal Los Angeles private detective agency to call for anyone needing help finding their relatives.

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Surveillance Operations in Southern California

As one of the best Los Angeles detective agencies, Kinsey Investigations offers an extensive list of private detective services. Surveillance is one of our investigation services that may be the primary reason a client calls us or may become part of another type of investigation. No matter why we may be carrying out surveillance, and whether it’s in Malibu or Brentwood, Santa Monica or Long Beach, Kinsey Investigations has more than 20 years’ experience working surveillance in Los Angeles County. What this means for our clients is that we understand the unique requirements of surveillance work in all the different cities, locations and communities in southern California. And while some Los Angeles private detective agencies can only take on one or two cases at a time, Kinsey Investigations’ team of female private investigators is large enough to work multiple cases at once, even if more than one or two involve surveillance. It’s one more reason we’ve been named among the best private investigators in Los Angeles, for three years. We may not always be the first California private investigations firm our clients call, but we take pride in being the last.

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