Runaway wives, missing on the day of the fire: What else are private detectives working on in Penza.

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Runaway wives, missing on the day of the fire: What else are private detectives working on in Penza.​

The work of a private detective is inconspicuous, but important. However, it is not at all what we are used to seeing it in the movies.​

This profession is very rare for our region. Only four firms are engaged in private investigation, but two of them work mainly with legal entities, acting as an economic security service on outsourcing or searching for debtors (not to be confused with collection agencies, only legal methods are used here).

Not like in the movies

That is, in fact, only two detectives for the entire Penza region! It is not surprising that people often consider them exotic, as much an invention of writers or film directors as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. Well, or like the domestic "heroes of our time" Lukin and Nasonov from the endless series "Detectives".

- You know, everything is relative, - says private detective Dmitry Sapozhnikov. — I was approached twice by potential clients with a request to install wiretapping: one - in the phone of a person whom I suspected of some kind of fraud, the other — in the office, so as to be able to control subordinates. I had to disappoint them: according to the law, private detectives do not have the right to install "bugs" and secret video cameras, listen to phones and break through databases. People were seriously offended: how so, in the TV series, detectives freely use these tools.

Yes, but in real life, the actor Alexey Nasonov, a former district police officer who was offered a role in the TV series "Detectives" (his character's name is the same), who opened his own detective agency in the wake of the success of the series, was prosecuted two years ago. Just for the fact that he and his subordinates passed on prohibited information to clients, including details of telephone conversations of third parties.

You can't do without a license

The current law on private detective work seriously restricts the powers of domestic Sherlocks. They only have the right to search for missing people, collect information about a potential business partner, or help verify the fidelity of a spouse.
They can also collect information on criminal cases, but they must notify the investigator or the court in which the case is being processed in writing about their work.

They are prohibited from using physical force, using weapons and special equipment, and detaining people. The persons involved in the case have the right to interview only with their consent.

In addition, not everyone can get a private investigator's license.

As explained by Denis Kostryukov, assistant head for media Relations of the Department of Rosgvardiya for the Penza Region (since 2018, the work of private detectives is controlled by Rosgvardiya), the candidate must be over 21 years old, be physically and mentally healthy, have no criminal record and not be under investigation, also he must have either a higher legal education, or experience in operational or investigative work for at least three years, or he must pass special training. After obtaining a license, a private detective is required to renew it every five years and annually undergo a medical examination.

Don't lie to me!

Former police officer Pavel Spirin received his license four years ago, after he retired on superannuation. While still wearing shoulder straps, he became interested in working on a polygraph, and graduated from special courses. Having opened his own detective agency, he purchased a lie detector and uses it in his work.

— I am often approached by the heads of organizations and enterprises with a request to check either existing or potential employees for their integrity, - says Pavel Spirin.

There was a case when, during a lie detector test, the designer of one of the machine-tool enterprises said that each person has his own price. According to Pavel Spirin, he recommended that the employer take a closer look at this employee.

The employer waved his hand at the warning, saying, where can I find such a good specialist, especially since he is an old friend. And you never know who is talking nonsense! Six months later, the designer went to the competition. In addition, it turned out that he had long before regularly supplied them with information about new inventions of the company where he worked.

— Another person, when asked if he plans to use the experience gained to create his own company, answered "no". But judging by the reaction of his body, recorded by the polygraph, he was not telling the truth. The same pattern was repeated in the next two checks. I also recommended paying attention to it. And again, the employer ignored it. As a result, the subject opened his own company and introduced other people's developments into production.

Pavel Spirin also joins the search for missing people. So, for a year, he was approached at different times by three men whose wives had disappeared. The situations were like a carbon copy. All three are wealthy businessmen. Their wives, as they say, did not deny themselves anything. And suddenly they disappeared with their children in broad daylight. The calls were not answered. Along with them, the credit cards disappeared...

The fugitives were found, all were alive and well. And the escape was motivated by the fact that their husbands were domestic tyrants who used violence against them. But at the same time, all three prepared lawsuits to the court, in which they demanded not to call the spouses to account for ill-treatment, but to divorce them and divide the property, the value of which was estimated in tens of millions of rubles.

Find a person

And Dmitry Sapozhnikov once received a request from Norway to search for a person. Once a resident of Penza, after a divorce from her husband, emigrated with her young daughter to this Scandinavian country. The connection with the former spouse was lost. The daughter grew up and wanted to see her father.

Sapozhnikov turned to his former police colleagues for help. The information shocked him. It turns out that the wanted man was the victim of a violent crime. He was killed and his body was dismembered. It was lucky that the police were able to identify him. The man was buried at the state expense, as at that time it was not possible to find his relatives.

At the moment, Sapozhnikov is working on another case, most likely related to crime. Two years ago, a young man disappeared in Penza. There are reports that he was last seen at a friend's house. On the same day, a fire broke out in the house. There were no casualties, but the guy hasn't been seen since. The mother sounded the alarm, said to the law enforcement agencies, but, in her opinion, the police let the case down on the brakes. The search went on for two years, but came to nothing. Then the unfortunate woman turned to a private detective for help.

Detectives claim that the law on the activities of private detectives, issued 20 years ago, is very outdated and needs to be amended to take into account the current realities.

Pavel Spirin calls for private detectives to be allowed to engage in operational investigative activities:

"In Europe and the United States, private detectives have the same powers as police officers. A person has the right to choose who to turn to. I hope that sooner or later we will also be like this.

 

[David Mamedov]

Watching a movie and thinking "this is how they work" is not right. Their job is much more difficult

 

[Частный детектив. Москва.]

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[частный детектив. Узбекистан. Ташкент.]

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[Детективное агентство Израиль.]

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[Детективное агентство Израиль.]

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[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

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[seventeam]

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[Детективное агентство. Грузия.]

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[Детективное агентство. Минск.]

Faithful wives are not uncommon