Can a UK private investigator get mobile or cell phone records?
Grant White • 30 May 2019
Not quite…
It’s 5pm on a frosty evening, your partner pulls up on the driveway of your home after a long day at work. The kids are excited and the food is ready on the table. 5 minutes pass, then 10. You take a peek from behind the curtains at your husband sitting behind the wheel, his mouth is moving and has a grin from ear-to-ear. He plays with his fingernails as he talks, you try to lipread but all you can make out is the persistent smile on his face.
Finally he enters the front door, you wait for an explanation as to the delay, he says he has only just arrived back home, delays because of the snowdrift.
What do you do? He must have been talking to someone, who could it have been, and why was it making him so happy? If only I could get a hold of his phone records.
Aha! Lightbulb moment, she calls Operant Investigators, she wants the records of every call made to and from his phone that day.
Operant politely explain, “we cannot legally — without the permission of the owner — collect his phone records, we are not law enforcement. However, we can establish if your concerns are valid by conducting surveillance on your husband. This way, we can get foolproof evidence of any dishonest behaviour”.
She agrees, our surveillance team established that the husband was meeting up with a female colleague during his lunch hour outside of the office. She was able to confront her husband about the illicit affair with the evidence gained by Operant detectives.
Finally he enters the front door, you wait for an explanation as to the delay, he says he has only just arrived back home, delays because of the snowdrift.
What do you do? He must have been talking to someone, who could it have been, and why was it making him so happy? If only I could get a hold of his phone records.
Aha! Lightbulb moment, she calls Operant Investigators, she wants the records of every call made to and from his phone that day.
Operant politely explain, “we cannot legally — without the permission of the owner — collect his phone records, we are not law enforcement. However, we can establish if your concerns are valid by conducting surveillance on your husband. This way, we can get foolproof evidence of any dishonest behaviour”.
She agrees, our surveillance team established that the husband was meeting up with a female colleague during his lunch hour outside of the office. She was able to confront her husband about the illicit affair with the evidence gained by Operant detectives.
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