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2. Pinkerton (detective agency) - Wikipedia

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   Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

3. Private investigator - Wikipedia

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   Private detectives can perform surveillance work on behalf of individuals Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous fictional private investigator. A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, an inquiry agent or informally a private dick is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

4. Private policing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   By the late 1960s, the private security industry was growing at a recession-resistant rate of 10-15% annually. Estimates of the number of private guards, investigators, and so on ranged from 350,000 to 800,000. [41] From 1976 to 1981, there was a 20% increase in calls for police service.

5. USIS (company) - Wikipedia

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   In 2007, an OPM contract investigator employed by USIS conducted the field work for the OPM-FIS background investigation [4] on Aaron Alexis, who fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in southeast Washington, D.C. on Monday, September 16, 2013.

6. Blackwater (company) - Wikipedia

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   Blackwater moved about 200 personnel into the area impacted by Hurricane Katrina, most of whom (164 employees) were working under a contract with the Federal Protective Service to protect government facilities, [26] but the company held contracts with private clients as well. Blackwater's presence after Katrina cost the federal government ...

7. World Association of Detectives - Wikipedia

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   The World Association of Detectives (W.A.D.) was founded in 1925. It is the International Association for Private Investigators and Security Service Organizations.The World Association of Detectives was formed as a joint venture by the combined membership of the World Association of Detectives and the International Secret Service Association.