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HIGH-LEVEL

PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE

A specialized investigative service for high-stakes litigation, threat assessments and ultra sensitive security matters.
Since 1995
❝ Private sector mobile physical surveillance on an alert subject is the most difficult investigative discipline to perform successfully on a consistent basis. Just as one would not use a primary physician for heart surgery, one should not use a generalist private investigator for a highly specialized investigative discipline, such as private sector physical-mobile surveillance.❞
Specializing in one investigative service 👉 High-Level Physical Surveillance
What is High-Level Physical Surveillance? It is a surveillance service that uses lawful high-tech equipment and Tier-1 level surveillance-investigators; and designed to provide highly effective, reliable and lawful physical-mobile surveillance for high-stakes cases ⎯ where surveillance failure can result in significant evidentiary and information losses and/or unnecessary safety issues to a person or persons.
Physical Surveillance is a specialty. That is why the FBI, CIA and other same type agencies have units whose personnel are dedicated to only conducting physical surveillance. For example, the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) of the FBI is their full-time dedicated physical surveillance unit consisting of practitioners that perform physical surveillance as a full-time job.
Why so many failures in physical surveillance? Private sector physical surveillance is the most misunderstood investigative discipline and most difficult to perform successfully on a consistent basis, hence the high failure rate. Nearly all assignment fails are due to a selection person choosing an unqualified physical surveillance vendor. Poor decisions in selecting a qualified vendor for physical surveillance can significantly impact an organization negatively. The negative impact may be related to reduced safety for employees during a threat of workplace violence, missed opportunities on game changing evidence in a lawsuit and/or exposure to unnecessary lawsuits due to the physical surveillance vendor's unprofessional actions. A heads-up to CEOs, HR Executives and General Counsels ➡ If the person in your organization who selects the physical surveillance vendor has no private sector physical surveillance experience (for example, the selection person is former law enforcement with no private sector physical surveillance experience), we recommend asking the person choosing the physical surveillance vendor to provide you the reasons that the chosen vendor is qualified. This recommended executive quality control practice may save your organization from suffering a negative impact by an unqualified vendor.
Please click on below link: How to Choose a Private Investigation Agency for a Physical Surveillance (Sub Rosa)
(2020) Mike Wolivar took photo during final part of a successful Physical Surveillance/Specialty Investigation conducted in-part with LE to identify suspects and recover part of the $ 7,000,000 in client's stolen high technology.
Since 1995, Mike Wolivar and associates have secured winning evidence in hundreds of high-value litigated cases, most of it through physical surveillances.
Mike Wolivar and street savvy high-level surveillance-investigators use high-tech equipment to include long range HD video cameras to secure valuable evidence.
Specialty Investigation ⎯ WA surveillance-investigator (working in a UC capacity) hands suspect cash in exchange for alleged stolen high-profile entertainment related property (owned by a Fortune 100 company) not yet released to public.
Ethical and lawful high-tech equipment can make the difference in operational success or failure.
There are two surveillance teams at Wolivar & Associates, Inc.
Code-5 Team™ ⎯ Elite Tier-1 full-time physical surveillance practitioners, the core of whom have worked together over 14-years on sensitive high-stakes cases in Southern California. All are licensed and insured California private investigators. And all have over ten years of securing video evidence that has successfully resulted in the loss reduction of tens of millions of dollars for insurance carriers, TPA's and businesses; and securing video evidence related to child custody, non-compete contracts, vendor compliance, warehouse theft and discreet information gathering to help senior executives make better decisions on high stakes matters. SafeWatch Team™ ⎯ Elite surveillance practitioners with expertise and experience conducting the nuanced physical surveillances on Persons of Concern who have threatened violence on a person(s), workplace and/or school. The surveillance practitioners on the SWT are the very top performers of the Code-5 Team™ who possess that that rare surveillance 6th sense that enables the practitioner to stay with the POC while not being detected.
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