Background Checks

Are you looking to run an investigation on a person's background? Hiring a private investigator to conduct a background check can be complicated. We have conducted background checks at Martin Investigation Services for over five decades.

OUR TEAM OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS ARE FORMER FEDERAL AGENTS WITH THE FBI, DEA, IRS, OR SECRET SERVICE.

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Performed and reviewed by former Federal agents.

These days, several companies government agencies and websites perform background checks.

These services often offer mixed-quality results, using dated sources that provide only pieces of information without quality assurance, due diligence, or professional review.

When you get a background credit check at Martin Investigative Services, we use the most extensive public information database in the United States.

Equally important, our private investigators, who are former supervisory federal agents, will personally review your results.

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How Much Are Background Checks?

Background checks and private investigations are relatively low-cost services that can save substantial personal difficulty and expense. Hiring a Private investigator with a professional license can cost you $50-300 per hour to gather information on a background check. That entirely depends on the specific types of criminal background and checks that are required.

What is a Private investigator background check?

Our private investigators can provide detailed information on any individual in the United States to help you with your personal criminal history, and make informed decisions. Background checks are an integral part of a company screening process. A Background check for a company can help its safety tremendously. Keeping yourself and the business safe.

During the hiring process, we will check social media platforms, conduct credit reports, conduct a background check and investigation, review financial and public records together, determine an individual's criminal history, and much more.

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Types of Background Checks

We have prepared pages with detailed information about specific background checks to help you:

Criminal screening is used to discover possible criminal records. Learn more

Employee background checks for current employees. Learn more

Employment pre-employment screening, for pre-employment job candidate screening. Learn more

For any reason, personal background checks are performed for background information on a business partner or single person. Learn more

Background checks on yourself, learn what private financial information of yours is publicly available to find. Learn more

Private Investigator for Elder Caregiver Background Check

Elder abuse at home and in shelters is on the rise. Before you hire a caregiver, a private investigator can help you look into their past and check for records of prior elder abuse, financial misconduct, and neglect.  The PIs not only check criminal records at the courts but also interview witnesses such as landlords, past employers, and medical professionals tied to your candidate’s work history. The common challenge with such cases is that elder abuse cases are sealed. It would take an expert team of ex-intelligence operators to help you find the truth through behavioral psychology analysis, record subpoenas, and legal data scraping.

What type of information shows up in a background check?

Types certain types of information available to a private investigator often includes, but is not limited to:

• Known addresses

• Known phone numbers

• Court records

• Marriage Records

• Driving records

• Bankruptcies

• Property liens

• Business ownership

• Credit history

• Public record search

• Employment references

• Education verification

• Character reference checks

• Gaps in employment history

• Criminal history

• Military records

• Licensing records

• Polygraph tests

• Birth certificate or legal status

• Litigation records

• Drug tests

• Credit Report

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Online Databases

Martin Investigative Services has compiled the largest database of public information in the United States, and can use it to maximize the value of your actions, make personal decisions, or reduce business risk. Our online research of public databases is unmached giving us

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Need to find hidden funds?

Our asset search services can identify assets and accounts in all fifty states and internationally, often when others cannot.

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Can background checks reveal information about an individual's mental health or medical history?

The Privacy Act does not generally cover both mental health information and medical history because the Privacy Act covers both. Even if we were lucky enough to find some documentation, we could not legally reveal that.

What are the differences between a criminal history check and a financial history check?

So, criminal histories are collected in all 50 states. We buy from the cities, the counties, and the states, and that will provide on the subject their history relative to felonies, which is a year or more in jail, and misdemeanors, which is less than a year in jail. Financial histories are a totally different search, and there are three things we do there. There are asset searches; there’s bank searches and stock searches. However, the most important caveat here is that they all have to be done under the Graham Leach Bliley Act, also known as the GLD Act, which was enacted in 1999.

Why choose Martin Investigative Services to get a background check on yourself? 

Here's why:

More data sources.

Get results where others can't.

Martin Investigative Services can help you by identifying assets and accounts across the globe, when others often cannot – by accessing the largest database of public information in civil history of the United States.

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Former Federal agents.

Review your results.

Former DEA, FBI, IRS, and Secret Service agents will personally have up to date information, review the results of your background checks and go over them with you.

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50+ years experience.

High success rate.

You get quality conducting background checks and investigation services with an unmatched success rate. Martin Investigative services offers you confidence and peace of mind during the process.

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Investigators in your area.

Review local records in person.

When local public records that must be reviewed in person, Martin Investigative Services has a national network of experienced private investigators to do this on your behalf.

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How do private investigators verify employment history?

There used to be a great index that the United States government kept that we could buy, called the employment index. That was great up until COVID-19 hit in March 2020, and they had a lot of people obviously dying without social security numbers. A lot of people are changing their employment, and a lot of people are getting 1099s and W2s all over the board. And so that index has pretty much gone down in accuracy to where it used to be about 95% we’re seeing now it’s more 40 to 50%. So the best way now that we verify employment is to actually do surveillance on the subject and follow him away on a Monday or Tuesday morning, and hopefully, he’s not working from home, and he goes to a business. And that’s generally how we discover employment history.

What type of background check do you need?

Criminal background?

Who are you dealing with?

Entering into a business partnership or contract? A criminal background screening can help you avoid getting scammed.

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Employee Background Check?

Or job applicant?

Hiring the wrong individual is expensive. We can run screening checks on both job candidates and current employees.

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Online Research

Talking to someone online? Do you want us to verify the person you are talking to is genuine and legitimate? We can help you find out the validity of someone you found online and verify it is genuinely who they say they are.

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Background Check on Myself

Find out.

Every day, private information collected about you is bought, sold and stored on numerous servers across the country.

Many people are curious about their own private data in the general public sphere, or past actions that might come back to haunt them. If you would like to perform a background check on yourself Martin Invesrigation can help you.

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Deadbeat parent?

Alimony problems?

Our asset search services can identify hidden accounts in all fifty states and internationally – often when others cannot.

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Martin in the news: Background Checks

Business Insanity Talk Radio: Financial ignorance & infidelity

Thomas G. Martin, founder of Martin Investigative Services, appeared on Business Insanity Talk Radio with Barry Moltz to discuss his financial history, infidelity and financial ignorance, and what spouses can do to protect themselves from financial ignorance.

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Private investigator sheds light on security measures in new book

Private investigator Tom Martin is based in Southern California, but his work frequently brings him up to date in Las Vegas.

“We get hired by people who get hurt coming in on I-15, or people who get hurt in the hotels,” said Martin, 50. Sometimes, he mentions, he is hired by the party who gets sued by a deceptive person just claiming to be hurt.

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USA Today: With my cell-phone number, a private eye found 150 pages on me

I gave my cell number to private investigator Thomas Martin, a former federal agent and now president of Martin Investigative Services in Newport Beach, Calif., and asked him to do his thing. A few days later a three-pound, 150-plus-page dossier arrived at my front door via FedEx. Martin didn't trust regular mail given the nature of what it contained, which was tons of my private information.

“We didn't even scratch the surface,” Martin told me later. He also made a point of telling me that I was “cleaner than a Safeway chicken.”

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PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR  BACKGROUND CHECK

A private investigator background check is a thorough examination of a person's past carried out by our trained private investigators only. This process involves exploring a variety of public databases and records to glean information about an individual's history, including criminal records, employment history, financial records, education, and more. When you're ready to hire a private investigator for a background check, we simplify the process at MartinPI.com. Contact us via our website or contact number, provide the necessary information, and let our professional investigators do the rest. The world is filled with unknowns. In matters of trust, a private investigator background check from MartinPI.com can provide clarity and peace of mind. Reach out to us today and take the first step towards understanding the people who matter most to you and your business.

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THE BENEFITS OF A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR

The benefits of a private investigator are numerous. They provide valuable services to businesses and individuals that may otherwise be unavailable. The benefits of a private investigator include the following:

Investigative skills

Private investigators possess specialized skills that enable them to conduct investigations for their clients. These include surveillance, computer forensics, interviewing and interrogation, locating persons, missing person with mental illness searches, and background checks. This expertise can be invaluable for individuals who need help with a particular investigation or situation.

Confidentiality

The nature of an investigation often requires confidentiality. Investigation firms provide this because they are not required by law to report information learned during an investigation to anyone other than the client or agency paying for the investigation.

Professionalism and experience

A professional investigator has been trained in criminal justice and has received additional investigation training. They are licensed by their state and insured against liability claims resulting from their work on behalf of clients.

Cost-effective results

Hiring a private investigator is often cheaper than hiring multiple employees or paying for expensive equipment if you have the time or expertise. You can also save money by using their services regularly instead of doing most of your legwork on each case yourself each time it arises.

Access to databases

Private investigators have access to various resources you may not have available. This includes information about other people involved in the case or places they could hide. They can use their connections and resources to provide you with any information you need to get through this challenging time.

WHAT DO PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS DO?

A private investigator is an individual who works for a company or agency to conduct investigations for various purposes. People and companies can hire private investigators to help them solve problems, gather information, and find people who need help locating.

Many people think private investigators are spies’, but that’s not true. A spy gathers information about another country for political or military reasons. A private investigator may work for a law firm or insurance company, or he may work independently to solve problems for clients who hire him as needed. There are also differences between a PI and private detectives.

Private investigators use many methods to gather information on people and businesses, including surveillance and background investigation. They often have special forensic science training to collect evidence during an investigation.

Their work usually involves following people or conducting surveillance operations such as wiretapping or bugging buildings or cars. Private investigation companies hire professionals who have the experience to solve complex problems. They offer a wide range of services, including

• • Investigation of crimes such as embezzlement, fraud, stalking, and harassment
  • Conduct surveillance of people or property
  • Skip tracing (finding missing persons)
  • Process serving (serving legal documents such as subpoenas)
  • Asset searches
  • Background checks
  • Bug Sweeps
  • Search for missing persons