How to Detect Surveillance Cameras

Covert surveillance cameras that have been placed by an expert private investigator can be used to collect highly sensitive information about you. If the private investigator does a good job, you will not realize what has happened until it's too late.

This is not an acceptable outcome for most people and this is why many people hire private investigators each year to ensure that there are no audio or video bugs anywhere near their personal space. How can you ensure that you're not being recorded by a private investigator at any given moment?

• Security Cameras: These surveillance cameras are mostly overt and their purpose is to dissuade possible criminals. Security cameras can also come with features that make them appropriate for covert work such as infrared imaging for night vision.
• Covert cameras: Covert surveillance cameras come in many forms. Some are designed to be small so they can be easily carried or fixed to something else by the private investigator while others are designed to resemble common items that are unlikely to raise suspicion e.g. pens and watches.
• Unmanned cameras: A private investigator risks detection if they have to be in the same location as the camera. This is why some private detectives use cameras that be used remotely. Such cameras can send their information via wireless signals to the private investigator who'll be at another location.

• Camera detecting apps: Although the effectiveness of these apps is questionable, there is enough evidence that shows they can be used to find surveillance cameras left by a private investigator if your phone is close enough.
• Bug Sweeping Gadgets: The internet is a treasure trove of devices that you can use to find bugs that may have been placed by a private investigator. However, many of these devices are cheap and not very reliable.
• Hire a private investigator: If you need a professional job done, hiring a private investigator provides you with an easy solution. Private investigators have been trained to do this sort of work and they'll even have professional equipment that will be a lot more effective than anything else you can use.

It's difficult to know if there is a surveillance camera secretly recording you. If you're in a position or a situation where it won't be unusual for someone else to hire a private investigator to record you then you should err on the side of caution.

Hire a private detective every now and then to perform thorough bug sweeps of your car, office, home or any other place you frequent. You can even hire a private investigator to follow you to see if someone else has a camera trained on you.