Can A Private Investigator Help in Finding a Runaway?
Many times as a private investigator you’ll receive a desperate phone call from a worried parent begging for help in finding a runaway. The novice PI might refer the parent to local police and call it a day. They know that databases are useless in finding a runaway since they are likely under 18 and have no reported credit history reported to credit headers. Although it’s unlikely you’ll find a runaway using standard locating or skip tracing techniques it is possible to use old fashioned investigation methods and state of the art forensic technology to find runaways. But you’ll need to think outside the box. In the rest of this article we will attempt to provide a game plane for finding runaways. 1.Make a police report. Be sure to advise the parents to make a police report and establish a rapport with the detectives assigned to the case. These detectives are overworked and you need to make a persona; impression on them. 2. Make a detailed list of all the child’s friends. Especially boy
