We are specialized in helping and protecting the interests of companies, businesses, and private individuals

 

DETECTIVE

 

PRIVATE INVESTIGATION

In principle, an investigation seeks truth with an eye on presenting evidence. In the private domain, investigations and putting on tails are an integral part of the profession of private detective, exercised by CABINET BLANC and regulated by law N° 80-1058 of December 23, 1980 and by decree N° 81-1086 of December 8, 1981.

We are covered by a professional civil liability insurance and subject to PROFESSIONAL SECRECY according to article n° 226-13 of the penal code.

Private investigating for the presentation of evidence in civil Court or for negotiating an amicable settlement.· Counter investigating for the criminal justice system, for either the plaintiff or the defence, in order to complete the case file.

Searching for new leads to exonerate an accused person.· Missing person search (runaways, heirs, removals, unexplained disappearances, etc.…).

Don't hesitate to ask us for an appropriate case study !

A BIT OF HISTORY

In 1825, Guy DELAVAU (1788 - 1874), a former PARIS Prefect of police having become Member of the Council of State, founded the first modern Private Police Agency.

In 1832, François Eugène VIDOCQ (1775 - 1857), first a convict, then a secret agent working under Etienne PASQUIER, Prefect of police, and finally Chief for the Special Criminal Investigation Brigade from 1812 to 1832, founded the most famous agency " UNIVERSAL INFORMATION BUREAU FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY ", which became " THE INTERMEDIARY, BUREAU FOR INFORMATION IN THE INTEREST OF BUSINESS AND TRADE".

In 1850, Allan PINKERTON, Irish immigrant and cooper, founded in the city of CHICAGO, USA, an agency which still bears his name and which counts more than 70 branches (one of whom in China) currently employing more than 30.000 people. In the USA, this agency is considered, in the same way as WELLS FARGO, to be the ancestor of the F.B.I. - Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was one of the world's first private detective. Emigrating to Chicago from Glasgow, Scotland, he discovered a gang of counterfeiters and assisted in their capture. He became deputy sheriff of Kane County, then Cook County, resigning from the police to form the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1852. The Pinkerton logo, the All-Seeing Eye, inspired the phrase "Private Eye".
In 1861 Pinkerton uncovered a plot to assassinate President Lincoln. At Lincoln's request, Pinkerton began the U.S. Secret Service and served as its head. Through the use of a double agent, Pinkerton's secret service defeated a Confederate plot to free the 8000 prisoners of war at the South Side's Camp Douglas.
Pinkerton guards were employed by large manufacturing companies to put down strikes. In 1886, a riot broke out at the McCormick Reaper Works. The police, aided by Pinkerton's men, fired into the crowd, killing several. A rally was held days later in Haymarket square in which a bomb was thrown at police. The Haymarket affair resulted in several unjust convictions and executions.
Pinkerton is surrounded by his family and several Pinkerton employees. Timothy Webster, a bodyguard for Lincoln, was hanged as a Union spy during the Civil War. Also buried here are the first woman detective, Kate Warn, and Joseph Whicher, killed in pursuit of Jesse James.

In 1896, Jean-Marie GORON, illustrious Chief of the General Criminal Investigation Bureau in France, created a private agency, the first of its kind to attain a real European dimension.

At the beginning of the XX ° Century, multiple agencies were started in France, mostly run by personalities from the world of justice, the most famous being HARRIS and VILLIOD.

In 1942, Law n° 891 of the 28th of September, sets down a specific rule in FRANCE concerning the Profession of Director and Manager of Private Investigation Agencies, established under the Government of VICHY by Pierre LAVAL, leader of the government, Minister and Secretary of State for the Interior. It was anti-Semitic, because it forbade access to this Profession by Jews; it was subsequently modified at the return of the Republican legitimacy in 1945, later enforced by Decree n° 77-128 of February 9, 1977 and finally redrafted in 1980.


  Head office : 69, rue Saint-Ferréol
  13006 MARSEILLE - France
Tel.     : + 33 (0)4 91 33 21 81
Fax      : + 33 (0)4 91 33 01 24

Email   : CabinetBlanc@wanadoo.fr

CABINET BLANC SARL with a capital of 16.000 €

RCS MARSEILLE B 350 551 438 - APE 746Z
           
Manager : Charles DMYTRUS
Declaration of existence in the Prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône 30.12.81

Declaration amended - 01.04.89

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