Investigations
Listening Device Detection and Invasion of Privacy
Electronic and physical sweeps of a home, office or vehicle for listening devices, hidden cameras and tracking equipment, with a written result either way.
- #1 Private Investigator in Texas
- Texas License #12818
- Twenty-five years of experience
- Marine veteran owned
- Statewide Texas coverage
- Free confidential consultation
What this is
Bug Sweeps & Privacy, in plain terms.
People who call about this are usually describing the same experience: somebody knew something they should not have known. Once that has happened twice, every room starts to feel different, and that feeling does not go away on reassurance. It goes away on a sweep.
The work is half electronic and half physical. Instruments find what transmits. Hands and eyes find what does not - a device recording to local storage has nothing to detect until somebody opens the housing it is hidden in. Both halves are necessary, and a sweep that is only the first half is not a sweep.
The work
What actually gets done.
- Interview first: what was said, who could have known it, and where the conversation happened.
- Radio-frequency sweep of the space for active transmitters.
- Physical search of fixtures, furniture, outlets, smoke detectors, vents and vehicle interiors.
- Inspection for hidden cameras, including lens detection in sensitive rooms.
- Check vehicles for tracking equipment.
- A written report of what was found, or a written confirmation that nothing was.
Investigations
Documented, or it did not happen.
An observation nobody wrote down at the time is a memory. Every hour is logged as it happens, with times and locations, including the hours where nothing occurred.
What you get
At the end of it.
- A room-by-room result, in writing.
- Photographs and the physical device, if one is recovered.
- Advice on preserving it as evidence rather than destroying it.
- Practical recommendations for closing whatever the gap actually was.
When people call
The three situations we hear most.
Private information keeps getting out
The most reliable indicator. Something said in one room turned up somewhere it could not have traveled to honestly.
You are in a contested divorce or a dispute
This is when it happens most. It is also when the other side has the most to lose by being caught doing it.
You are moving into a new space
A baseline sweep of a leased office or a new home is cheap peace of mind, and it is the only sweep where a clean result means something permanent.
Questions
About this service.
What if you find something?
We stop, we photograph it in place, and we talk to you before anything is touched. Removing a device destroys most of what makes it useful to you. Depending on what it is, the next call may be to law enforcement or to your attorney.
What if you find nothing?
You get that in writing, and it is worth having. A clean sweep either ends the worry or narrows the problem to something else - a shared account, a phone, a person - which is a different investigation and a solvable one.
Should I talk about the sweep beforehand?
Not in the space being swept, and not on a device that lives in it. If somebody is listening, the appointment is the one piece of information that would make the sweep useless.
Is the first conversation really free?
Yes, and it is confidential. You describe the situation, we tell you whether an investigation is likely to help, roughly what it would involve and what it would cost. There is no charge for that call and no obligation at the end of it.
More in this area
Other services in Investigations.
Where we work
Four metros, and the rest of Texas.
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio are where most cases start. Coverage runs to the whole state, and records and asset work is run nationally.
Free consultation
Tell us what is going on. The first call is free.
Describe the situation and we will tell you honestly whether an investigation would help, what it would involve and what it would cost. Confidential, no obligation, and no charge for the conversation.