The New York based Sherlock Investigations operating under licenses issued by the New York State Department of State and the Massachusetts State Police enjoys long standing solid reputation since the year of its foundation back in 1995. According to the article in Wikipedia, it is a leading investigative firm in New York City. The agency's client base represents customers from all 50 US states and 75 countries across the world, who are being offered investigative services encompassing (but not limited to) locates, skip-tracing, missing persons, business and personal background checks, pre-employment screening, wiretap & bug detection and surveillance.
Sherlock Investigations' trained staff will welcome the challenge of tough cases. "Private Eyes Rian* and Skipp did everything they said they would", said another of the company's clients, expressing gratitude to Sherlock Investigations for helping to recover the $7500 he had been defrauded of on an Internet auction. According to the company's founder and sole President Skipp Porteous, 75% of the cases currently asked to investigate originate from this or that kind of the Internet fraud or scam.
Quite pertinently, apart from traditional surveillance, nearly 80% of the investigative job done by the company's private detectives is performed through the Internet channels too, in contrast to less than 50% 5 years and none a decade ago. If need arises, field investigations are followed up by expert testimony in court.
Who are the staff doing these investigative searches for you? Skipp Porteous - licensed and bonded private investigator, and the company's founder and sole President - one of his specialties is researching controversial religious groups and cults. Constance Marie - an excellent surveillance and undercover investigator. Sherry Hart - trained for surveillance, locating people, and conducting background investigations. Sherry and Constance are familiar faces on the TV show Ricki Lake Show - they are 2 out of 3 members of the famous female detective trio known as the Foxy Private Investigators. Ruby Moore - a specialist in locating hard-to-find people, who has located every single person she has been assigned to locate since her starting with Sherlock Investigations 3 years ago.
Might be of interest for seekers of employment in the investigative field: even if Sherlock Investigation's stuff is complete, the agency is always on the lookout for exceptional talent. Say, if you have a ham radio operator’s license you may be an excellent candidate for employment as a TSCM specialist. If you're a talented photographer, you may excel at surveillance.
Mass Media references. Even if we found no reliability report available for Sherlock Investigations from the Better Business Bureau, by simply typing in the queries "Sherlock Investigations" and "Skipp Porteous" in Google we were returned 604 URLs, an array of which lead to, or cited references from, Private Investigators Mall, The Ross Institute, Marquis Who's Who in America, as well as a free eBay information search resource Gumshoo.com that helps buyers make informed buying decisions, and
Spy Center "Magazines" press digest web page, to list just a few. Skipp Porteous' article "Clients are People: Handle with Care" featured in Sept/Oct 2003-Issue 69 - PI Magazine must be reflecting his company's customer policy guidelines.
*Rian Mitchell, who at the time of writing this review worked for Sherlock Investigations as a full time specialist in e-mail tracing, Internet & eBay fraud investigations, phone & computer forensics and privacy protection, as of March 2006 has moved on to open his own security consulting firm called RedTeam Protection. Rian is also a member of InfraGard, a joint program with FBI on the security of the Nation's critical infrastructures that began as a local effort in the FBI's Cleveland Field Office in 1996.
