INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES

These background searches can help you find out the TRUTH about who you are meeting online.  It’s also a good way to find out if they are dating others beside you! We, also, provide documented facts of unwarranted behavior of persons directly involved with children.

• Real Name & DOB
• Background Profile
• Criminal Record
• DWI Record
• Marriage Search
• Divorce Search
• Number of Children
• Income History
• Credit History
• Property Ownership
• Who They Are Living With
• Dating Others Online
• Video Surveillance
• Judgment, Liens, Bankruptcy

ELPS Provides Surveillance, both mobile and stationary. We can provide video and still photo evidence for workers compensation fraud, insurance fraud, unemployment fraud, child custody, infidelity, cohabitation, theft of time, drinking on the job, residency requirements and the list goes on and on.  If you have a need for surveillance contact us to discuss a customized plan for your needs.

• Video Surveillance
• GPS Tracking

• Statistics say that 85% of women who feel their lover is cheating are correct and 50% of men who feel their lover is cheating are right. If you have suspicions of infidelity by your spouse or partner, consider calling ELPS Private Detective Agency.
• If you suspect your spouse is cheating, it is not a good idea to collect the evidence yourself while trying to conduct your own investigation. Your judgment can become clouded, elevated levels of anger, these things can cause you to do things that you should not! You need professional help to get you solid evidence for your attorney and the courts. In other words, you need to hire a private investigator.
• Winning custody today is very difficult. A courtroom is no place for sub-par investigations or for a poor planner. ELPS Private Detective Agency can offer you the strategy for winning.

Discovering an affair in your relationship is hard enough, but that’s just the beginning of what you will face. A family court ruling will be rendered either for or against you and your children. A judge will decide for you based on the evidence, who is the best custodial parent. If your state considers infidelity grounds for divorce, proof is essential! If you are party to a legal action, your observations, discoveries, and testimony are already tainted with bias

• Sudden increase in time away from home
• Decreased sexual interest with you
• Spouse is often distracted and day dreaming
• Husband or wife is often “unavailable” while at work
• Spouse attends new functions outside of work
• Cell phone calls from you are not returned in timely fashion
• Spouse leaves house or goes to other rooms to talk on the telephone
• Spouse uses computer alone and secretly
• Spouse asks about your schedule more often than usual
• Clothes smell of perfume or cologne
• Unexplained payments on bank statements
• Spouse has more cash on hand without accountability
• Cell phone bills contain calls with long duration
• Spouse now has a phone card but never used one before
• Wife or husband has unexplained receipts in wallet or purse
• Spouse has suspicious phone voice-mail messages
• Spouse has suspicious cell phone numbers stored or dialed
• Spouse begins to use new or free e-mail account
• Spouse is suddenly deleting e-mail messages

• Providing cohabitation for alimony cases. Many people are aware that a remarriage can end a former spouse’s alimony, but not everyone realizes that cohabiting after a divorce can also affect alimony.
• In Pennsylvania unless specifically stated otherwise in the property settlement agreement or by order of the court, if the supported spouse begins cohabiting with a paramour, he or she is no longer eligible to receive alimony. Cohabitation means that two people are living together in a relationship similar to husband and wife. Having a boyfriend or girlfriend that one occasionally stays with doesn’t qualify as cohabitation.

Courts are more likely to determine that two people are cohabiting if they share the same residence full-time, have a romantic or sexual relationship, and share finances similar to a married couple.

This is a particularly important issue given how many couples are choosing to live together rather than marry. The percentage of married households in the United States has fallen to a historic low; census data cited 48 percent of households in 2014 were married couples. The number of married households fell to 48 percent in 2014 from a high of about 72 percent in 1960.

Building a case that demonstrates cohabitation, one has to understand that this will take time. Gathering sound evidence to document the truth may be difficult and time consuming; especially knowing that the ex-spouse collecting the alimony will do their best to conceal this financially game changing information.

ELPS Private Detective Agency is a seasoned investigative firm that understands the complexity and specialized services needed in a cohabitation investigation. Our team will provide you with the highest degree of professionalism and experience that in turn results in a high degree of success. There are very few investigators that understand what is wanted by the courts. Our expertise with cohabitation cases provides you with the information needed to convince the Judge that your ex is cohabitating based on evidence NOT rumors.

Our reputation of reliability and integrity with insurance providers, law firms, corporations, business entities, and private individuals makes ELPS PDA a well-respected firm throughout the industry. We service Pennsylvania statewide from Philadelphia County to Erie County, all of New Jersey and can provide investigative services throughout the nation with a network of highly trained private investigators, investigative specialists and licensed associates. Our dedicated professional staff is here to serve all your investigative needs.

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The loss of independence is among the hardest things we face when getting older. Often times, loved ones have well-grounded concerns about the safety and security of their aging family members who live alone or have begun to exhibit concerning behavior.

If you suspect someone is being abused, contact us immediately. Our professional agents are skilled in elder abuse investigations and will get you the answers you need as soon as possible. We are passionate about putting an end to this unsavory activity and will work with you to resolve the situation.

We can provide numerous undercover operations. For example, we can provide undercover operatives to work in office, retail, warehouse settings, etc. to get inside intelligence on what may be occurring to help identify, fix and prosecute profit losses.  These undercover investigators often infiltrate an individual or a suspected insurgent group, posing as a person interested in purchasing illegal goods or services with the final goal of obtaining information about their assigned target.

A missing person is categorized as “any individual who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known.” These individuals may go missing voluntarily or possibly due to an accident, a crime, or a death in a location where they cannot be found such as a body of water. While a majority of the missing person cases received are solved quickly, some can linger for years or even decades as in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a missing person’s assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. Most law enforcement agencies will often heavily stress that the case should be reported as early as possible to gather as much evidence as possible and to stay on the trail of the missing. Tackling missing persons across international borders has led to databases being created and shared from the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.

A person who has disappeared, with their location or fate unknown to anyone. Their status could be dead or alive but cannot be confirmed as their whereabouts are unknown. Missing persons can go missing:

• Due to a crime
• Death
• Drugs / alcohol
• Mental illness
• Abduction
• Domestic violence
• Run Away

Law enforcement agencies provide safety for their entire community; they often fail to prioritize missing person’s cases over more tangible crimes. In fact, the Columbus Monthly reports that 90,000 people remain missing in the United States today.

According to the National Institute Of Justice (NIJ), 17,000 law enforcement agencies operate within the U.S., many of which don’t have the time or money to tackle missing person’s reports.

ELPS Private Detective Agency can dedicate the time and resources to finding your missing loved one.

Product liability is an area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others product makers who sell to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause. Although the word “product” has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible personal property. When it comes to product liability in the United States, the most common claims are Negligence, Strict Liability, Breach Of Warranty, and various Consumer Protection. The majority of these claims are determined at the state level and they can vary from state to state. Each type of claim requires different elements relevant to each case in order to be proven and to present a successful claim. According to Section 2 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, the three main distinguishing types of product liability claims are manufacturing defect, design defect and a failure to warn. Manufacturing defects are those that occur in the manufacturing process and usually involve poor-quality materials or shoddy workmanship. The design defects occur where the product design is inherently dangerous or useless regardless of how carefully the product is manufactured. This can be proved by showing that the product fails to satisfy the ordinary consumer expectations as to what constitutes a “safe product”, or that the risks of the product heavily outweigh the benefits. Failure to warn defects can arise in products which carry inherent nonobvious dangers which could be mitigated through adequate warnings to the user, and that these dangers are present regardless of how well the product is manufactured and designed for its intended purpose.

With over 30 years of experience in the Loss Prevention / Security industry servicing Fortune 500 companies, ELPS Private Detective Agency can provide as much – or as little – consulting, training, hardware implementation and case investigation services as you need to help ensure your company’s success.

We specialize in all areas of employee dishonesty and other acts that negatively affect your company’s profitability.

Are you experiencing register shortages, deposit irregularities, inventory discrepancies or unexplained transactions?  These are just a few of the many key indicators indicating theft or fraud is occurring in your work place.

ELPS Private Detective Agency prides itself on being able to provide small to midsize companies with services needed to succeed at a modest and reasonable cost. We can be your outsourced Loss Prevention Department, providing weekly, monthly or quarterly visits, audits and on call availability.

For further information please call us to help you prevent, deter and identify the underlying cause of your unnecessary profit losses.