Surveillance (Beacon or GPS tracking)

If GPS indicates that your suspect is in the wrong place at the wrong time, you can send an investigator in person to perform on-site surveillance.

Did you know most cell phones have GPS capabilities in them? These features can be turned off (an option required by Federal law), but you can require your employees to leave GPS tracking enabled in their company handhelds. Services from Nextel and other wireless providers can deliver real-time tracking data for each subscribed unit. Is your crew at the beach instead of at the job site in the city? Did your assistant go for lunch three hours ago and call to tell you she had car trouble? Then why is her GPS location in the middle of a department store in the mall?

Of course, GPS has plenty of applications that don’t involve dishonesty. Competitors in the Alaskan Irondog snowmobile race and the Iditarod dog-sled race have GPS devices on their sleds as of 2007. Ships at sea use GPS both to monitor their positions and to send automated distress signals to the Coast Guard.

GPS can be overt, like the company cell phone mentioned above, or covert, such as using a hidden device in a vehicle or package. At ICS, we believe every company vehicle should have some sort of tracking system. Many rental car agencies use GPS to ensure their vehicles aren’t going outside the appropriate area. If you are not aware that your movements are being tracked, you should start thinking about whether GPS could be announcing your location to someone else.

Naturally, this sort of technology comes at a price, and outfitting a major corporation could run into very high dollars. Even a small construction company with a dozen vehicles might find it cost-prohibitive to install GPS equipment in every truck. Also consider who will gather the GPS data, analyze it, and deliver reports to you. Do you have the time, expertise, and budget to do it yourself? Can you afford to hire a compliance officer? Does anyone on your staff have time to add a GPS monitoring task to their existing duties?
Consult with ICS to develop your own individual GPS tracking plan. A private investigator could use a small, magnetically-attached device to track a specific vehicle and tell you if your wife spends every day across town with her lover or if a certain employee is going places without permission. Outsourcing a GPS surveillance job on a case-by-case basis may be more affordable than a permanent, all-inclusive system would be.

Tracking technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few years, with GPS tracking and beacon systems now accurate to less than ten feet, the right equipment can hone in on your target with unnerving precision. Whether you need to track a package, a person, a vehicle, or anything in between, ICS is equipped with the best GPS trackers in the business.

Of course, anyone who shells out enough money can get a quality GPS tracker. The ICS difference is that we've been planting and utilizing tracking devices longer than GPS has even been around. We know how to place the tracking devices so that no inspection or unexpected circumstance will dislodge them... and we also know how to best utilize the data we collect, be it simply mapping out a route or making recommendations to help law enforcement authorities zero in on a criminal. That's why ICS is the best choice when it comes to your investigative needs.

Contact ICS today for a free consultation. In under 30 minutes we can evaluate your needs and begin to devise a tracking plan that will get you the information you need to build a criminal or civil case – or just put the fear of Dad back into your teenager. Our reliable, effective, and discreet investigators can begin a surveillance job within a day of your first call. Don’t keep putting up with lies and deception. Get the facts with an ICS professional.