What makes a Private Investigator Different from All the Rest?

Ray Gillis • June 8, 2023
What makes a Private Investigator Different from All the Rest?

Trust an Investigator Who Will Get the Job Done


My company’s business philosophy is written down for all to read and evaluate. This business philosophy is “Pleasing Partners By Relentlessly Pursuing Results” It isn’t just a philosophy to me; I have lived it to ensure our clients are happy with the service we are hired to perform.


Years ago, I received a case from a large insurance company in Florida. The subject of the investigation was collecting worker’s compensation benefits, and not supposed to be working. I was conducting surveillance when the subject left the provided address one morning and drove to a tattoo parlor in Tampa, Florida. I found that the tattoo parlor was owned by the subject’s father. I went inside. Sure enough, she was there, working as a tattoo artist. I asked about obtaining a tattoo, and the subject gave me a book of possible tattoo designs to think about. I am of Irish decent, so I found a tattoo with a leprechaun sitting on a pot of gold, with guns in each hand, both raised and firing into the air. Here I am with an opportunity to live my business philosophy and not just be a bunch of words. I decided on that tattoo, and we videotaped the subject tattooing the leprechaun on my upper right arm. I am “old school,” and few mainstream folks had tattoos in my day. I thought mainly artist folks and sailors had tattoos. Now, it seems everybody has one.  The subject was paid, the insurance company was able to settle her file, and I lived my truth. By the way, Nancy, my wife, also got a tattoo to help the case get settled.


If you are ever trying to decide if my words match my actions, and whether or not I really believe in my business philosophy, ask to see the tattoo on my right arm. 

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