The chase begins!
Start early! 6:00 a.m. Oh yes I said 6:00 a.m. You have to get your bed off you back. When conducting surveillance for insurance fraud type investigations it is important to begin early. There is nothing worse than setting up surveillance and finding out the subject is already gone. Upon arriving at your place of surveillance there is a lot of work to do. When you do your drive by write down vehicle make/model/color/license plate number/and unique characteristics of the vehicle. These details are what you will use to ID the vehicle when the action gets going. If there are no vehicles in the driveway it’s possible the subject parks in the garage. P.I’s hate garages. Thankfully, many of the subject’s that I watch don’t use their garage. Notice your surroundings. For example: in snowy months check for fresh tire tracks in the driveway (fresh tire tracks could mean the subject has already left the residence), look for items in the yard to give you information (toys in the yard would tell you there are children and the subject may take them to school), check the length of grass telling you when the subject may need to mow their lawn, or any signs the subject spends time outside. Noticing your surroundings can bring in valuable information and just may help solve your case! Your next step will be to figure out possible exits the subject may use when leaving the residence. Some neighborhoods are nice to P.I.’s and have only one or two exits. Then there are the neighborhoods with ten thousand ways to exit. Figuring out the exits to the neighborhood may help so you’re not caught off guard. Keep an open mind to possible ways the subject may drive. There are times when I have lost a subject because I did not think they could “go out that way”. You may now begin your wait (hopefully not too long). But wait! You need to choose your parking spot. Your parking spot is the most important detail when setting up surveillance. Next time…..where do I park? There is much more to this than you think! Are you looking for a Utah Private Investigator?