Sunday, July 8, 2018

The Finer Points Of A Bilingual Private Investigator

By Michael Ward


Everyone has secrets, dirty little things that they would rather keep hidden, keep away from prying eyes. Maybe because it is something that could ruin a career, take for example politics. Many politicians have been brought down because of having affairs that resulted in natural born children. But the thing about those dirty little secrets is that never stay secret, at some point in time, they will all come out like a courageous queer during pride month. Things never stay hidden, not for long. Many times those little shames are uncovered by a bilingual private investigator.

Getting down to brass tacks, a private investigator, or a PI, is a detective. But unlike a regular detective, they do so to make money, not because they want to serve and protect. Now, the premium ones will refer to themselves as a risk management specialist and not as private investigators. Now, they may be allowed to carry a firearm, depending on the area of operations in which they operate in.

Without superfluous wording, being bilingual is being able to speak more than a single language. Now, this can mean a lot of things. On the one hand, it can mean simply knowing a few words and phrases to being able to pass as a native speaker.

The most common avenue towards bilingualism is to be the offspring of an immigrant or two, where they will often converse in the local tongue of the country their parents moved to, while also speaking the dialect of the native country of their parents. This is a particularly effective means of becoming bilingual because this exposes an individual to multiple languages during the years when the brain has not fully developed speech.

There are a number of advantages to being bilingual. For one, it opens a whole new market, a whole new demographic of clients. For another, it adds to the investigative ability, as some countries have large immigrant communities who speak their mother tongues, and a PI who can talk to them can question them more effectively than someone who is monolingual.

Now, private investigators are small business owners. As such, they need to make a profit. Similar to lawyers, they will charge an hourly or daily fee. Bilingualism may affect that fee, as they may feel that they can charge higher if they possess more skills.

The thing about a professional is that the client can expect the job to get done. So it is very important to look into the background of a PI, to see if they have the skills needed to get the job done. This can be accomplished with a simple internet search.

Now, they should also be discrete. There are some secrets that even a client does not want to put out into the world. A PI, like an attorney or a doctor, must be able to keep their mouths shut regarding confidential information, especially if it is something sensitive that may or may not have an adverse effect on the client.

Secrets and lies are a part of life. But a greater part is truth. The thing about truth is that it will generally win out in the end. No matter what obfuscations a person puts up, the truth can and, most of the time, will come out.




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