No human’s life has remained same, ever since the corona virus has struck planet earth. The enforcement of lockdown was done to curb the spread of disease, however the lock down period opened the door of opportunities for private investigators across the globe. The lockdown due to pandemic has created certain unique and peculiar problems, which has flooded private detective agencies with enquiries. So when the world is shutdown, detectives are striking gold in entire world.
DDS detectives is getting regular queries in lock down. Following are the nature of work and the reasons for increased queries:-
- Counterfeiting and copyright violations: As soon as lock down was announced the entire machinery of government, started the enforcement of lock-down orders to contain coronavirus. It is a common knowledge that fraudster, cheaters and violators always take advantage of natural calamities, diseases, pandemic etc. to make some easy bucks. In the time of disasters the law enforcement agencies such as police are already preoccupied with work and have no manpower or organizational strength to deal with those who are committing crimes under the intellectual property right act or copyright and trademark violations. The free movement of quality check teams of companies is also restricted. Taking advantage of this situation there is lot of counterfeiting and fake products are being pumped in the market. Detective agencies are getting a lot of enquiries related to such forgeries. DDS Detectives has already taken many such assignments is India.
- Infidelity, adultery or extra marital affairs related queries: In the period of lockdown married couple were forced to live together. In normal times people go out of there house and meet the paramour or can have conversation, while they are outside the house. However, in the coronavirus induced lockdown, both the partners have to permanently live together, thus the cheating partner has no opportunity to have leisure time. DDS Detectives has received many queries in the lockdown period, where the caller has seen suspicious behavior of the cheating husband/wife. This suspicion arises out of legitimate concerns like: talking in low tone in bathroom, suddenly putting lock or password on phone, going out in balconies or roof to talk, not enjoying the company of spouse, boredom, getting violent and aggressive, sudden popup of WhatsApp or SMS’s. DDS Detectives is a leading private investigation company, which undertakes extra marital affairs investigations and has taken several assignments related to adultery investigations in Covid or corona period. It has also been observed that during covid the use of dating apps has increased.
- Companies hiring private detectives to check on employees: During Corona virus outbreak, all the corporations which deals in non-essential services, had to regenerate it’s working. Employees of the company started work from home, hence companies want to keep an eye on such employees. Most of the MNC’s based in Delhi NCR (Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad & Faridabad) had to shut their office premises. In such a scenario, it has to be ensured that the employees of the company are home and working in the interest of the company. Companies not only suspect that, there employees are skipping on work amid the coronavirus but sometimes there is an apprehension that they are taking some freelancing assignments too.
- Strengthening the internal mechanism and in anticipation of likely troubles: A private investigators job is primarily of troubleshooting and finding fault lines in the system. It is said that when a fisherman is not in the sea, he repairs his fishing net. Many companies relating to retail chain, supply network, financial audit, mystery shopping, travel tourism, aviation, infrastructure, manufacturing industries, IT companies etc. suffer from some sort of problem related to dishonest employees. These problems can range from theft, pilferage, working for competitor, corruption to mismanagement. In usual times, some of these losses have to be written off due to paucity of time and resources. The corona virus pandemic has already reduced the profit of companies, therefor companies are looking to plug these holes. DDS Detectives has received several such calls for brainstorming and has offered its help to corporate sector.
- Detective services for domestic violence during covid lockdown: According to WHO there is a huge surge in domestic violence cases across the globe. In India also according to tribune news report there has been an increase of 21% in domestic violence, ever since the government has introduced corona virus lockdown. A Delhi Police official also confirmed that, the number of calls from woman in distress has increased. Woman who have experienced violence, have called private investigators for certain hidden spy gadgets, which can capture this dark side of their marriage. Such evidences can be later used in court.
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