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Keith Schafferius doesn’t fear anyone or anything.

The veteran private investigator, bespectacled and greying, does not look like a super sleuth but his working history reads something like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster.

He has had a career filled with surveillance operations, international investigations worth millions of dollars and an enviable list of contacts and connections across the globe.

Always being “tough and ready” — a lesson passed down by his father — helped him get through a career exposed to the darker side of human nature, he said.

“Every day, every job is different and that’s why I’ve loved it so much over the years.”

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-13/private-investigator-sleuthing-secrets-revealed/9539070

Private Investigator Solves Case In 48 Hours

Sometimes desperate families turn to private investigators to help them solve the murders of their loved ones once they realise police are unable to crack it.

East London investigator Christian Botha has earned a reputation as a supersleuth who can solve cold cases quickly.

“With any case you have to start with the police docket. It’s full of clues and all you have to do is analyse it,” he said.

In 2004, Botha was hired to solve the eight-year mystery of Alec Steenkamp’s disappearance. He was hired by Steenkamp’s daughter, Samantha, who refused to accept that her father could not be traced.

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https://www.theinvestigators.co.nz/news/private-investigator-solves-case-in-48-hours

he life of a private detective is a tough one.  Often your job brings you into contact with people with a murky past and questionable character. The family of private investigator Daniel Morgan are looking forward to a new inquiry into the 1987 London axe murder of the private investigator.  The family suspects police corruption is a big factor in the yet unsolved murder.  

The body of Mr Morgan, originally from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, Torfaen, was found in Sydenham, south-east London, in 1987.  A trial of four men charged with his murder in 2008 collapsed in 2011, following alleged failures by the police and prosecutors.

The aim of the new independent judge-led investigation panel is to shine a light on the London Metropolitan Police history, and the former police officers, private investigators, criminals, journalists and super-grasses involved in the saga.  The panel will focus on the paper-trail of 750,000 pages of documents from five previous inquiries. It will also examine the role of Southern Investigations, the small detective agency Daniel worked for.

There is evidence Southern took payments from newspapers to dig out information for stories – which sometimes, it’s alleged, came from corrupt police officers. There may be fresh insight into the way the ‘dark arts’ of the media operated.

The video below helps explain the saga surrounding the case.  While our surveillance and private detective work here at Precise Investigation thankfully does not involve uncovering police corruption, the case provides some lessons for us here in Melbourne – a city that has had a recent history of drug and gang-related murders.  While the vast majority of police in Melbourne are hard-working honest people that protect us, we must never become complacent about the ability of criminals to corrupt and bribe police in these extreme situations.

If you have a situation that requires a private detective or investigator in Melbourne, Sydney or any other city in Australia, please call us.  We would be happy to listen and offer advice and hopefully help and assist.

The Premier Colin Barnett has used question time to turn the tables on the Opposition regarding the use of private investigators.

The Opposition Leader Mark McGowan went on the attack following revelations the Environment Department hired a private detective to find the source of a damaging leak prior to the state election.

He also alleged the Government had spent $3 million on private investigators in the last two years.

Mr Barnett told Parliament today the former Labor government hired contractors to look into 107 matters in the Education Department alone in 2007-07.

Mr McGowan was the Education Minister for part of that time.

The Premier says, under his government, the department has hired just one investigator in the past two years.

“It is fair to individuals under investigation, it is long standing practice and if it was used excessively, certainly not under this government but definitely under the Labor government,” he said.

Mr Barnett says there is nothing wrong with using outside investigators to examine allegations of misconduct, and he says Mr McGowan should not have claimed WA was turning into a police state.

“If [it’s a matter] of investigating the conduct or perhaps misconduct of a public servant, and if it’s not so serious as to go to the Corruption and Crime Commission, it’s handled by the Public Sector Commissioner,” he said.

“To ensure procedural fairness, that is usually someone drawn from outside.”

Mr McGowan says the figure dropped so dramatically because Labor created an in-house unit to handle investigations in 2007.

He maintains he has never heard of contractors being used to investigate political leaks until now.

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The union representing public sector workers has questioned the use by government agencies of private contractors to investigate staff, given recent budget freezes.

The State Opposition yesterday accused the Government of running a ‘police state’ after one of its departments admitted spending $5,000 on a private detective to investigate a damaging leak.

It followed the clearing of sand near a shack on Wedge Island used by MP Murray Cowper and a warning from the Department of Environment and Conservation.

The CPSU/CSA says it is aware that government agencies occasionally use private detectives for discipline breaches.

But, the assistant secretary Rikki Hendon says the money could be much better spent.

“They’ve recently announced more than a thousand job cuts to come in the next two years,” he said.

“They’ve also announced a lot of limitations on expenditure within departments so I guess my concern would be that the Government is spending a lot of money on these contractors when it can’t afford the basics.”

Ms Hendon says she has questioned whether it is necessary.

“Ultimately, what we’re concerned about is the extent to which independent contractors are used to investigate matters within the public service and the conduct of employees within the public service,” she said.

“How much it costs and what of that money could be better spent on delivering services to the public.”

A statement from the Public Sector Commission said the use of contractors to investigate disciplinary matters has been a long-standing practice used by successive governments over several years.

The Opposition Leader, Mark McGowan, is not convinced.

“I have never, ever heard of this before and I’ve never heard of it in Government in my experience in 16 years in Parliament,” he said.

“I’ve certainly never, ever heard of it being used to intimidate or harass a serving member of Parliament.”

Mr McGowan says it is not a good move.

“Departments have their own process to investigate internal matters,” he said.

“I think employing shady, outside private investigators is not desirable in the public sector and what’s more this could be costing many, many thousands of dollars.”