Detective meeting.

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

An international scientific and practical conference ended in the Far East, bringing together private detectives from several countries and dozens of Russian cities. At a forum organized by the Association of Russian Detectives and the Association of Security Structures of the Far Eastern Federal District, detectives shared their experiences, discussed pressing issues and working methods.

As Victor Gutov, president of the Association of Security Structures of the Far Eastern Federal District, told Russian Planet, we can assume that in Russia the profession of a detective is only 22 years old: in 1992, the law "On Security Activities" was adopted in our country. But in general, Gutov believes, one can really talk about the birth of the profession of Russian private investigation since 2002, when the Russian Association of Detectives was created, and after it there were regional associations, including the Far East.

“Such associations are needed not only to discuss professional issues,” Victor Gutov explains to the RP. - It’s also a way for people of our profession to declare themselves, to enter the representatives of the regions in the Russian community of detectives, and then in the international. Well, the specifics of our work affects: we are primarily working with information. And the more people help you find, collect, analyze it - the more effective the work.

But the success of private investigators depends not only on their professionalism. Experts say: it’s difficult to be a detective in Russia. This is affected by the peculiarities of legislation, and the lack of contact with law enforcement agencies, although the detectives are mostly former security officials, and even, so to speak, the market’s lack of readiness - that is, a shortage of customers and service consumers. However, everything here clings to one another.

“The law, as it appeared more than 20 years ago, has not changed,” says Victor Gutov. - He actually equalizes security and detective activity, but these are still different things. Then, virtually nothing is possible for Russian private detectives. The law allows foreign colleagues to use special equipment, weapons, the state officially concludes contracts with them, they are attracted by law enforcement agencies to investigate crimes. It is there in the order of things. And indeed, a private detective in Europe is a significant figure. And it turns out in our country that an ordinary citizen can have a camera, a video camera, a voice recorder, and sometimes a weapon, and this is prohibited by law to a detective. That is, from working tools we only have legs and a head - as you want, so get out.

Again, says Victor Gutov, it is not said anywhere that the detective can be involved in the investigation. And in general, private detectives in the police do not like, our interlocutor admits.

- Why - it’s easy to understand. Just recently on Sakhalin the case was like this. Two pretty cars were stolen from one pretty wealthy man in one day, an ATV and some other equipment was stolen, smaller, but also not cheap. He, of course, immediately wrote a statement to the police. There is zero reaction. That is, for about a week they generally did nothing. After that, the victim turned to a private detective agency, and there the case was opened in two accounts. So this is our competition with the authorities.

However, one should not think, experts say, that the Russian laws governing the work of detectives are clearly weak and incomplete, and the Western ones are perfect. Its features and difficulties are everywhere.

- Communicating with our colleagues from abroad, we understand that we have a lot in common in our work, we use the same techniques. Differences, if any, are due to differences in legislation. But you don’t need to think that in the West it’s definitely easier to work, ”says Alexei Shcherbenev, President of the Russian Association of Detectives, at RP. - For example, in the USA, detectives have the opportunity to search for information in the databases of some government agencies. This information is closed with us. It seems to be - that's a plus in their favor. But take another example. If in Russia a detective, having obtained a license in a region, can work across the country, then, say, in Switzerland in each canton there is a law regulating detective activity: if in one canton a detective can monitor an object, then in another no or there will be a time limit. And in Israel, in order to open his office, the detective must work for at least 5 years “under the supervision” of an older comrade. So our legislation is more loyal to many.

At the same time, adds Alexei, members of the detective association went to the State Duma with a proposal to expand the list of services provided by detectives, and hence their rights. Indeed, now people simply do not know how to use the services of a private investigation. Moreover, if in Moscow and St. Petersburg there is still such an understanding, then in the eastern regions this is still a long way off.

- In the west of Russia, our colleagues are already doing quite worthy things, taking good orders. For example, to constantly support the business, ensure the economic and information security of the company, ”says Victor Gutov. - This work includes many aspects: checking potential contractors, analyzing data about employees, calculating the consequences of a business decision, etc. But this is in Moscow. And, for example, on Sakhalin there is a shaft of small private orders. They are asked to track the unfaithful wife or to check if the child is an addict. I can honestly say: a self-respecting professional will never do such things.

But on Sakhalin, according to our interlocutors, there are serious cases related to the security of business structures. Victor Gutov spoke about the order of one large company, which had to be carried out together with a group of polygraph examiners: in order to protect the company from actually destruction, some of its employees and even partners had to be checked on a lie detector. Our expert did not disclose details, he noted only that the result was.

And Alexey Shcherbenev recalls how several years ago he managed to prevent the raider seizure of one of the largest Sakhalin enterprises.

“We managed not only to get this information itself,” says Aleksey, “but also to conduct a competent and accurate analysis of the actions of the raiders. We found the weaknesses of the organizers of the upcoming capture, got a plan of their actions and based on these data we competently consulted the company's management. This helped disrupt the plans and maintain the integrity of the enterprise.

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[Детективное агентство Тула]

In my opinion, it is very modestly written about the next annual ARD forum.
Forced to note a general decline (pronounced decline) in the reflection of the practice of NPV in the Russian media.
The organizational-disengaging boom somehow quietly subsided, scandals and mutual exposures (insults) faded, and the private detective boat, if it did not crash into the daily routine and prose of its professional activity, noticeably slowed down and seemed to run aground ...

 

[Андрей Захаров]

Hi Konstantin Mikhailovich) Concerning the shallows, it’s unlikely ... On the contrary, the lack of activity on various information resources is probably the result of employment ... And since employment means already buzzing ... And employment in my opinion can be traced ... Judging by the communication between themselves for the most part on the topics of order fulfillment ... So, as they said earlier, “rumors about our death are clearly exaggerated”

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Your words, Andrey Valerievich, but to God’s ears !!!