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Enquiry agents
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What is an enquiry agent.
Enquiry agents or an enquiry agent is another term to describe a Private investigator, Tracing agent or Private Detective. Enquiry agents can carry out a variety of different services which would include the following;
- Tracing people
- Locating debtors
- Serving legal documents
- Investigations
- Fraud investigation
- Surveillance
Solicitors and the legal practise area typically refer to investigators as enquiry agents, which can be a more specific term for their requirements.
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History of enquiry agents.
In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, “Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l’Industrie”[1] (“The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry”) and hired ex-convicts. Official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case.
Vidocq later suspected that it had been a set-up. He was sentenced to five years and fined 3,000-francs, but the Court of Appeals released him. Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology, and ballistics to a criminal investigation. He made the first plaster casts of shoe impressions. He created indelible ink and unalterable bond paper with his printing company. His form of anthropometrics is still partially used by French police. He is also credited for philanthropic pursuits – he claimed he never informed on anyone who had stolen for real need.[2]
After Vidocq, the industry was born.[citation needed] Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. A larger role for this new private investigative industry was to assist companies in labour disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia.[2]
In the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852. Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him. In 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. Although little-remembered today, Pollaky’s fame at the time was such that he was mentioned in various books of the 1870s and immortalized as “Paddington” Pollaky for his “keen penetration” in the 1881 comic opera, Patience.
In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency – a private detective agency – in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Pinkerton’s agents performed services that ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes, to plant protection and armed security.
It is sometimes claimed,[by whom?] probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army.[2] Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, making her the first female private detective in America.[3]
During the union unrest in the US in the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot of 1892, several states passed so-called “anti-Pinkerton” laws restricting the importation of private security guards during union strikes. The federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893 continues to prohibit an “individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency or similar organization” from being employed by “the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.”[2][4]
Pinkerton agents were also hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
History section on enquiry agents sourced from Wikipedia
How enquiry agents can help.
Enquiry agents can help to obtain any missing information from finding out where someone currently lives to obtain information such as current employer information which can help in an attachment of earnings case. Find UK People® are a specialist people tracing enquiry agent service and the core of our services are for finding missing people in the UK or across the globe.
Our enquiry agent service extends to the following practice areas
- Tracing people
- Employer tracing
- Means enquiries
- Tracing family
- Family enquiries
- Process service
- Investigations
- Fraud investigation
- Doorstep enquiries
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* Originally published on the 7th October 2018 and updated on 24 October 2021.