Monthly Archive for June, 2010

The RICE Method of Analysis

Published on June 30, 2010 in Business Continuity, Competitive Intelligence, Methods and Report Writing. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Use the RICE method to decide how to respond to information or intelligence:

R for reliability. The basic truthfulness or accuracy of the information you are evaluating.

I  for the importance of the data based upon its releveance

C  for the cost of your possible reactions or actions relating to the information

E  for the effectiveness of your  actions based upon this information. Would actions based upon this information solve the problems you face?

This format is useful for summarizing collected data and for analyzing how you might apply the data in a broad range of situations.

PS:

Just remember, as the old pessimist philosopher Arnold Schopenhauer stated, “The truth will set you free . . . but first it will make you miserable.”

How to Answer a Question

Published on June 28, 2010 in How to Become a Professional Private Investigator and Methods. 1 Comment Tags: , .

I often get clients asking questions that can’t be answered. Here is my guide to how to answer questions:

  1. Decide on a single meaning for every word in the question.
  2. Decide if an answer to this question can be acted upon to improve things.

Essentially, if you can’t define it or act upon it, then ignore it.

Charged with Operating Without a Licence

Published on June 4, 2010 in Canada and News. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Animal cruelty officer faces additional charges

A former senior animal cruelty officer at the Toronto Humane Society (THS) is facing a slew of additional charges in connection with the alleged operation of an unlicensed security guard services business.

Smith, 39, of Thornhill, and Protective Security Consultants has been charged with operating a business entity without a license under the Private Security and Investigative Services Act. He has also been charged under this legislation with acting as an unlicensed security guard.

Smith and his company are further charged with engaging in the business of providing security guards, no agency license and holding out as an agency with no agency license under the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act.

The new charges are reportedly not linked to a probe involving allegations of animal cruelty at the THS, which had its River Street shelter raided on Nov. 26, 2009.

He was charged then with two counts of impersonating a peace officer and one count of perjury in connection with accusations he continued investigating animal cruelty cases at the shelter despite being suspended last June.

Earlier, during June 2007, the OSPCA suspended Smith after he rescued a Rottweiler from a overheated vehicle and left the dog’s owner unattended and handcuffed to a car door while he left the scene with the dog. The handcuffed and defenseless dog owner was then assaulted by onlookers.

UK & Ireland Databases

Published on June 3, 2010 in United Kingdom. 0 Comments Tags: .

Litigation

www.businesspro.ie  for litigation in Ireland

Corporate Filings

www.companieshouse.gov.uk  for companies registered in the UK.
www.cro.ie  for companies registered in Ireland
www.fsc.gov.im  for companies registered in the Isle of Man.
Corporate Filing Searches on the British Islands

Credit

www.equifax.co.uk.  for credit reports.
www.experian.co.uk.  for credit reports.
www.insolvency.gov.uk  for insolvency search.
www.hpi.co.uk  for vehicles and boats and other licensed transport subject to any financing contract. Use the section of the site entitled “HPI Check “.

Land Registry Data

www.landregistrybusiness.gov.uk  for land registered in England and Wales.
www.ros.gov.uk/public/services/index.html  for land registered in Scotland.

UK to Axe Identity Card Scheme

Published on June 1, 2010 in Identity Fraud, Identity Theft, News and United Kingdom. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

National identity card schemes usually end badly for somebody, usually the average citizen. These overpriced schemes usually assist death-by-government programmes or become one point of failure that usually fails through corruption and/or criminal action.

Identity cards scheme will be axed ‘within 100 days’

The National Identity Card scheme will be abolished within 100 days with all cards becoming invalid, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.