As we know that a
private investigator is a person who does detective or investigating work for
anyone willing to purchase his services. These willing people may include a
single person, an organization or agency etc. The private investigators are
hired by these people for any of the following reasons. These reasons include detecting
a criminal, to determine a scenario or situation of incidence or may be to
investigate a suspicious mate. The people hiring them bear the PrivateInvestigator costs for their services. The persons hiring the private investigators
should not keep any information secret or unclear while explaining the
situation so that the investigator can work properly with complete knowledge of
situation to be investigated and proper and fair results can be achieved. They
hire the investigators so that those investigators having proper knowledge and
training can detect or investigate the targeted suspicious and unclear
situation to a confirmed explained and clear event, situation or even about a
person, business or agency. But without the proper knowledge of the
circumstances it is not possible for an investigator to bring the desired
results. So it is recommended to the people hiring the investigator to disclose
even ordinary and of little importance information before the investigator, so
that he can make the proper sense of the circumstances.
Now we come to the
point of discussion which is the costs to hire the investigator for a detective
work. There are many types of Private Investigator Costs. We can divide
all these to two main categories, the Quantitative costs and Qualitative
variables which are considered in costs. Quantitative Costs includes all
monetary costs which are paid to the investigator in cash form in response of
his services. But here, our main area of discussion will be the Qualitative
variables or attributes associated to the Private Investigator Costs. These Qualitative
attributes include the secrecy of sharing of personal information to the
investigator, dependency on the conclusions drawn and information and results
provided by the investigator, accuracy of results, reliability of the
conclusion and information. But the question is that what these attributes play
the role while calculating costs related to the private investigation? I
explain the sharing of personal information to the personal investigator costs
first. We know that nobody is willing to share his/her personal or even
business secrets and information to others. But when one hires a private
investigator, he/she has to do this. So he/she wants the secrecy of this
information. Now if he/she considers that his information will be secure he/she
ultimately will pay a good remuneration to the investigator.
The next thing is the
accuracy and reliability of information and conclusions drawn by the
investigator. When a person hires an investigator ultimately a high level of
expectations regarding accuracy and reliability of information and conclusions
drawn by the investigator is perceived by that person. This perception causes
the shift of control of situation and decision making to the investigator which
is once again an unlikely situation for the person hiring the investigator. Sometimes,
an investigator is not a hard worker or tries to cheat the person who has hired
him. In this way, the concluded results are not as per required by the
situation or for what the investigator has been paid. Now, how can one believe
that the received information is reliable and he/she must take his future
actions according to this information? So he/she has to trust the information
provided and conclusions drawn by the investigator and if it is perceived by
that person that the results and information will be accurate and reliable,
he/she will pay higher remuneration to the investigator. These all are not
monetary but qualitative attributes and can’t be calculated in terms of cash
but they should be considered while deciding the Private Investigator Costs.
The secrecy of personal information, level of accuracy and reliability of
information provided by the investigator should be considered. If there is low
secrecy level, low level of reliability and accuracy there would be smaller
costs to be paid to the investigator.
