California Surveillance Request Guidelines

Once a decision has been made to conduct surveillance, it is crucial that the our Los Angeles surveillance investigator be provided with the following information to have a successful surveillance operation and provide you with the details you need: 

• The correct subject's name and spelling.  It is not uncommon for the wrong information to be sent resulting in loss of time and additional expense to locate the correct information; 
• It is not always possible to provide a photograph of the subject; however, a good physical description would greatly assist in identifying them; 
• If vehicle information is known, then every attempt should be made to provide it; 
• If specific dates for the surveillance operation are required, it is important to discuss this with your surveillance investigator; 
• Attempts should be made to provide the full civic addresses for your subject and not post office box addresses.  This again reduces the costs involved in locating the subject's residence; 

Be clear in your instructions when permitting the use of pre-text telephone calls to your subject.  This could be important if a lawyer is involved; 

It is important to inform the Private investigator if your subject has retained a lawyer and who is named in the "Statement of Claim'.  If a lawyer has been retained, pretext telephone calls are not allowed and contact between the investigator and the subject, including his spouse and others occupying his residence may not be permitted; 

Be clear in reference to the time period you require the surveillance to be conducted. (i.e., start and finish times); and  If dates, times and places of appointments are known, it is important that they are provided to the investigator.

Our southern California private investigation office, Los Angeles County private investigation and Orange County private investigators have a minimum of 5 hours on site plus travel time to the case on every assignment.  If your subject is highly suspicious, please notify our the head investigator at EPIS Mr. Mike Hakimi.  Under these circumstances, per private investigator Mike Hakimi, we will recommend utilizing two invesigators for mobile surveillance.