News from the IV Conference

[Детектив-Молдова]

I will say more. In St. Petersburg, I met a fellow countryman who lives and works there as a private detective. Suddenly I received from him an interesting proposal for cooperation and a request to recommend a fellow countryman for his friend to fill a vacant position in the latter's company. The issue was resolved in one day without leaving St. Petersburg! Fortunately, my fellow countrymen are many throughout Russia .
In short. Combined business with pleasure!
The trip was a success! :!:

Nikolai Vasilievich, how pleasant it was for me to meet and chat with you!
A huge charge of positive and good mood for a long time. Thank you for coming! I believe that our joint project will be successful and successful!

Eugene, thanks for the rating!

Being convinced, I told everyone that in St. Petersburg I met a real fellow countryman, a colleague, and I am very proud of it!
At the expense of the success of our joint cooperation I will say this, in our life not everything can be, but a lot depends on us!
So, having rolled up our sleeves, we will work!

Good luck everyone!

 

[Орлан]

Spent time of course perfectly!

 

[Гудимов Анатолий Геннадиевич]

09/18/2013
Business Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
From wives to business scams
Fighting corporate espionage, supporting business security and competitive intelligence are the fastest growing areas in the Russian detective services market.
Determining the volume of the detective services market today is not easy: no research on this topic has been conducted, but experts estimate the Russian market at $ 130-150 million a year. In Russia, according to the International Association of Detectives (NP "MOD"), there are about 1800 private detective agencies. There are twice as many players in the US market today: according to the same NP, MOD, there are more than 3,500 agencies registered in the States, among which there are several network ones.

Espionage and investigation.

The Russian market of detective agencies is moving towards the B2B sector. Services such as ensuring business security (checking premises for listening devices, identifying unreliable partners, etc.), combating corporate espionage, and competitive intelligence are rapidly gaining popularity. “One of these orders has recently come from Belarus,” says Igor Bederov, head of security at ZAO Northern Textiles. - Two veterinary clinics fought a tough competition among themselves, and one of them started suspiciously quickly opening branches. The investigation revealed that many recently opened offices were not licensed. ”
Igor Bederov notes that competitive intelligence is not the same as espionage, it is carried out only by legal methods. Among other popular services are the search for debtors, security consultations.
Andrey Matushkin, president of NP MOD and the head of the detective agency ODB, recalls that a few years ago, resolving family problems and finding relatives were the most popular requests at the agency. Private clients are still dealing with such problems, but the notion that detectives just do what they see as wives and husbands in infidelity is a thing of the past thanks to working with business. “People are still looking for old comrades,” says Andrei Matushkin, “with whom, for example, they served together in the army in another region, and missing relatives. But in recent years, the number of calls from large customers and business has grown so much that the market has turned in a new direction. ”
How much is it? The cost of a private detective is significant, but for an organization such expenses can become a factor in increasing profits in the future. But private individuals are likely to apply to the detective agency only in case of emergency. On average, St. Petersburg agencies for outdoor surveillance ask for about $ 200-400 per day, video recording is 2-3 times more expensive. Gathering information about a person or organization costs $ 1000-1500, the search for debtors or scammers costs $ 800-1200. In this sector, there are very high margins for the complexity of the task, sometimes this can increase the cost tenfold.
“It would be a mistake to think that detective services are always expensive,” says Andrey Matushkin. - In each case, we draw up a plan with the client, discuss the details. If the cost increases, this happens for objective reasons that are understandable to the customer. "

Together more effective
Now on the St. Petersburg market there are several dozen large detective agencies offering a full range of services: security, counseling, and information gathering. These are companies such as Profi, Dossier, Yes, Leader and others. There are also about a hundred small agencies and detectives - individual entrepreneurs. At the conference NP “MOD” accepted several other professional communities into its ranks, in particular, the Association of Detective Professionals and the NP “Police Brotherhood”. At the moment, the International Association of Detectives has about 8 thousand participants - detectives, forensic scientists, psychologists, polygraph examiners (specialists in working with a lie detector) and representatives of related fields. Such cooperation helps agency employees to collaborate with colleagues from other regions, to transfer part of the work to them, which can lead to a noticeable reduction in the cost of the services of such agencies. Now, in order to carry out work in another region, the detective needs to travel independently to this region. Experts hope that lower prices will attract new customers and significantly expand the market.
Learning is not late Learning detectives is a particular problem. By law, a private investigator is required to have a special education, but in fact, almost all agencies are organized by immigrants from the police who retire after a length of service of about forty, and sometimes even earlier. Detectives with many years of experience in investigative agencies do not believe that they need additional training.
Nevertheless, in St. Petersburg there are several organizations that train detectives. Most of them are paid private courses. Director of the St. Petersburg Police College of Economics, Management and Law Oleg Yarukhin believes that the activities of such courses should be limited by law. “In Russia, only higher and secondary specialized educational institutions have the right to issue detectives,” Oleg Yarukhin says, “and not“ training centers ”and similar organizations. “They take a lot of money for training, but their certificate is not an official document.”
According to Oleg Yarukhin, many detectives - immigrants from the police are sure that they do not need to study: many years of experience replace education. But the private investigator is squeezed into a tight legal framework, he is forbidden much of what is allowed to an employee of state bodies. As a result, an unprepared former policeman is constantly at risk of being outlawed. Federal law allows retired law enforcement officers to work as freelance consultants to the police. However, in fact, market players complain, law enforcement officers are in no hurry to give them crusts. Perhaps this is due to the fight against lobbying for commercial interests, because agencies work on the order of certain companies. At the same time, investigative officers have special hopes for detective agencies, because they create jobs for former police officers. Perhaps that is why the interaction of police and detectives still continues.

Marina Vasilyeva, marina.vasileva@dp.ru

 

[Андрей Захаров]

Thanks Anatoly)))) Already posted this note on his resources)))) In order to, so to speak, propaganda the activities of the MOD))))