OUR SERVICES
Insurance Fraud Investigations
Dark Edge Investigative Group specializes and conducts insurance investigative services relating to life, health, liability, property and casualty insurance fraud. Our investigators are former Insurance company Special Investigative Unit (S.I.U.) investigators and are proficient with insurance legislation, provide professional and unbiased assessment of claims to adjusters, examiners, adjudicators, and legal counsel. We are experienced in conducting insurance interviews, examinations under oath (EUO's), covert surveillance, investigations into claimant injuries, disabilities, property damage, arson, theft, fraud, staged vehicular accidents, attend scenes, work with expert witnesses, prepare unbiased investigative reports and assist insurance companies with reserve recommendations.
[ General / Life / Health/ Liability / Property and Casualty Insurance Investigations ]
Criminal Investigations
Our investigators are professional, ethical, and possess many years of investigative and direct law enforcement experience. Dark Edge Investigative Group personnel are an asset to defence legal counsel, when tasked to review and scrutinize Crown Briefs including statements, reports, and police notes. Our investigators are proficient in conducting statement and investigative analysis of witness statements, police reports, police notes and forensic evidence. Their honed investigative experience and knowledge of the Criminal Code of Canada and Ontario Provincial Offences Statues are of great value and benefit to any criminal defence team. Dark Edge Investigative Group investigators are an asset in pre-trial preparation, conducting covert surveillance, re-interviewing of witnesses, securing statements, locating witnesses, reviewing the crime scene and evidence secured by police, process serving, and we prepare unbiased investigative reports with photographs and video.
[ Review Crown Briefs / Statement and Investigative Analysis / Covert Surveillance /
Locate Witnesses / Assist in Pre-Trial Preparation / Secure Witness Statements ]
Civil Litigation Investigations
Litigation attorneys often outsource investigative tasks, which affords them the opportunity to accept a wider variety of new cases, and at the same time, be better informed, and prepared with cases they outsourced. Dark Edge Investigative Group provides professional, seasoned and experienced investigators, examiners, researchers, and analysts to assist litigation counsel, with their many needs and requirements. Our experienced team provides litigation support and intelligence for family, civil, commercial and criminal matters. Our investigators maintain expertise in various areas, including slip and fall, intellectual property and trademark infringements, libel and slander, death or injury relating to licenced establishments violating Ontario Liquor Licence Act legislation, locating witnesses, securing witness statements, conducting covert surveillance, process serving, and engaging in undercover operations.
[ Covert Surveillance / Intellectual Property / Slander / Liable / Litigation Support / Undercover Operations / Person and Asset Locates / LLBO Investigations / Business Partner Integrity Investigations / Sound Recording Infringement / Trademark & Copyright Infringement ]
Intelligence Services
Dark Edge Investigative Group employs private investigators with former investigative intelligence training, knowledge and experience, to assist clients and legal counsel in matters relating to civil litigation, trademark and copyright infringement, conflict of interest, business purchases, asset tracing, witness locating, fraud, assessment of evidence, and serious criminal matters. We employ unique information collection methods including OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and HUMINT (collection of information from human sources) to secure otherwise unobtainable information to advance our client's interests. Dark Edge Investigative Group assists clients and legal counsel by securing intelligence information of evidentiary value to furnish regulatory and law enforcement agencies and to/or initiate criminal or civil processes in matters relating to theft, theft by conversion, embezzlement, fraud, breach of trust and falsifying business records.
Dark Edge Investigative Group exclusively practices legal and ethical intelligence information gathering, analysis and review. Our intelligence services afford our clients and their legal counsel a benefit and the ability to better view the larger picture and understand business risks, business environments and opportunities, locate new key employee talent, to make business acquisitions, to identify business expansion opportunities, new partnerships, competition, conflicts of interest, vulnerabilities, criminal activity, insurance liability, civil litigation pitfalls, and to understand management and employee relations.
[ Civil and Criminal Intelligence Gathering / Corporate Intelligence / Employee Activity / Background Checks / Covert Surveillance / Legal and Financial Due Diligence / ]
Surveillance Services
Dark Edge Investigative Group employs first rate surveillance operatives ensuring your investigative needs are met. Our private investigators are professional, knowledgeable, experienced, trained in surveillance craft, and their skills have been honed over many years of conducting daily covert vehicular surveillance, foot surveillance, fixed surveillance, and electronic covert video surveillance. Dark Edge Investigative Group private investigators are retired law enforcement officers, some with experience on a Provincial Task Force for 11 years, investigating organized criminal groups. They also have experience working in conjunction with federal, provincial, municipal and international surveillance teams.
Surveillance is a sophisticated and delicate investigative art which is discreetly practiced and often employed to monitor behaviour, activity, travel routes, groups, persons, associations, employees, employers, business partners and spouses, in order to glean accurate, crucial, and direct evidence pertinent to any investigation.
[ Mobile Surveillance / Surreptitious Camera Surveillance / Criminal and Civil Investigations / Spousal, Employee, Employer, Neighbour Surveillance / Business Partner Surveillance ]
Human Rights Investigations
If you are unsure an investigation is called for, don’t hesitate. The first priority: Get started right away. Disorganization, insufficient and inadequate efforts, and failure to act in the face of a problem, can escalate a minor situation into a crisis, and derail investigative efforts. Dark Edge Investigative Group investigators have seen delay as one of the most common - and potentially most costly - investigative mistakes. If a misconduct is allowed to continue as a direct result of investigative postponement, a court, tribunal, or commission, may find your organization responsible for failing to take a leadership role; by not investigating and resolving the problem, in a timely fashion.
Our veteran private investigators know exactly what to look for during interviews and examinations under oath. Their primary objective is to minimize risks to your organization. You can expect our Investigator to know the latest legal developments about investigations and workplace claims, including privacy issues.
[ Human Rights Investigations / Complainant and Witness Interviews / Background Checks ]
Family Law and Estate Investigations
Dark Edge Investigative Group works in conjunction with clients and law firms across the province of Ontario to help strengthen and advance your family law or estate case. We provide professional investigations, litigation support, intelligence services and our investigators are experienced in giving testimony and furnishing evidence during trial.
Investigators are usually crucial to family law cases. Dark Edge Investigative Group investigators will assist in locating hidden assets, hidden bank accounts, proving additional income sources for child support or spousal support, proving misconduct behaviour or criminal activity, establishing extramarital affairs, adultery, new relationships, employment changes, reckless spending of money, process serving, and proving spousal abuse or domestic violence.
Upon conclusion of the investigation, our Investigator will prepare and furnish you with a detailed report of findings, complete with photographic and video evidence.
[ Covert Surveillance / Intelligence Services / Litigation Support / Family Law / Asset & Witness Locates ]
Workplace Violence Investigations
Current legislation creates new rights for employees as well as new requirements for employers and management. Employers must keep records about persons with a history of violence and must provide this information to those who may encounter these persons in the course of their duties and who may be at risk of injury as a result of workplace violence. Employers must put in place new policies and programs that deal with workplace violence and harassment which must include measures to assess and control risks. Employers are now mandated to provide information to employees which informs them how to get immediate help, including measures and procedures for workers to report incidents of workplace harassment to the employer, manager or supervisor. Legislation requires the employer to inform how incidents will be investigated and dealt with. Once the employer becomes aware, that domestic violence that would likely expose a worker to physical injury may occur in the workplace, the employer shall take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of the worker.
Dark Edge Investigative Group is prepared to assist your business in preparing or reviewing your existing Human Resource procedures and protocols which relate to the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act.
If you are unsure an investigation is called for, don’t hesitate to immediately contact Dark Edge Investigative Group, and we will assess your position and assist you with all your investigative requirements.
[ Workplace Investigations / Policy & Procedure Preparations / Investigative Interviews / Detailed Reports of Finding / Experienced and Trained Investigators ]
Physical Security Audits
Physical Security Audits are a comprehensive inspection and evaluation, conducted by experienced and trained security professionals, of all the physical security measures your commercial, industrial, organizational, retail, office complex or residence has in place. The goal of the Physical Security Audit is to identify any and all weaknesses, in the security of your premises.
Dark Edge Investigative Group private investigators are trained and experienced to conduct physical security audits which include security threats, vulnerabilities, including natural ones like fire or flood and human vulnerabilities such as burglary, theft of equipment or assets, theft of sensitive or proprietary information or data. Some of the most common threats needing monitoring are external hacking into software, extrapolating confidential business, sales, and banking information.
A physical security audit will identify and uncover weaknesses, deficiencies, loopholes and gaps in your security defence systems. Upon completion of a physical security audit, a detailed report is furnished to the client, complete with recommendations. Often physical security audit recommendations will include installation of a new electronic security system or an upgrade to your existing system, changing existing locking devices to high security brands, initiating key entry control systems, strategically installing digital electronic surveillance cameras and recording systems or upgrading existing systems to expand and include targeted coverage. A professional physical security audit often delivers your organization, large monetary savings, by greatly reducing loss caused by external and internal entities.
[ Digital Camera Surveillance Systems / Locking Devices / Reduction of External & Internal Loss / Electronic Security Alarm Systems / Key Entry Control ]
Employment, Workplace & Labour Law Investigations
Ontario employers have certain obligations under various Provincial legislation to conduct a reasonable workplace investigation. Whether or not a workplace investigation requires an external investigator, depends on the severity and circumstances. Regardless if you employ an external investigator, a workplace investigation must be conducted in a fair, unbiased and professional manner, that follows guidelines as evolved by the courts.
Employee workplace investigations may result in employee discipline, employee termination and even litigation, and thus, your investigation must be able to withstand scrutiny and procedural fairness owed to both the accused and complainant.
The Ministry of Labour works to establish and enforce employment standards, prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths, and handle workplace disputes in Ontario. There are numerous regulations set forth by the Ministry that employers are legally obligated to abide by, all of these regulations carry with them their own set of consequences if employers fail to comply with them. For example, not being compliant with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) can result in fines up to $100,000 and an imprisonment term of up to 12 months. Even if you have complied fully with the legislation, an accident or death can still occur, and not only could you be charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, you could also be criminally liable and charged under the Criminal Code of Canada under Section (220) Criminal Negligence Causing Death, Section (221) Criminal Negligence Causing Bodily Harm, as well as other sections.
Dark Edge Investigative Group can assist you in conducting an exhaustive and comprehensive parallel investigation under the direction and in coordination with your legal counsel.
[ Occupational Health and Safety Act / Employee Injury or Death Investigation / Fair & Unbiased Investigations / Discreet / Parallel Investigations ]
Corporate, Financial & Fraud Investigations
Corporate crime and fraud is on the increase in Canada. Consequently businesses are suffering substantial monetary losses. It is estimated that Canadian businesses lose between $15 to $20 billion every year. Fraud is having real impacts on individuals, corporations, businesses and organizations. Increasingly, and especially over the past two years during the pandemic, many corporations, organizations, businesses, retail stores and services have turned to online services to carry on with daily business activities and transactions. Despite all of the ways the Internet can help businesses, your business needs to remain vigilant, as we don't always know who is on the other side of your computer screen. Many fraudsters use sophisticated impersonation tactics to pose as a trusted source, business, competitor, supplier, delivery service or financial institution to steal money, sales information, proprietary information, banking information and other personal data. In today’s rapid changing business and corporate environment, it is of paramount importance that businesses protect themselves and mitigate their losses, and avoid future risk. Corporate fraud combined with internal employee theft and fraud, has taken a large chunk of profits from the bottom line.
Dark Edge Investigative Group can assist your business by conducting background checks on potential employees, investigating suspicious activities or suspected fraud cases, conducting computer forensic operations or examining financial business records. Our professional, experienced, ethical and trained staff will ensure that your business needs are met and potential liability and risk can be diminished or eliminated. Upon completion of our investigation, you will be furnished with a detailed report of findings, complete with documents or transactions of evidentiary value should they be required in a criminal prosecution or in civil litigation.
Dark Edge Investigative Group will also identify financial inconsistency, irregular activity, instability, falsification of business records, theft and fraud. Dark Edge Investigative Group will furnish detailed reports and intelligence information which can be utilized by investors for mergers, acquisitions, or to establish corporate stability. Our investigative reports contain detailed, accurate and factual information which can also be utilized for transactions requiring meticulous, detailed and bona fide overview.
Dark Edge Investigative Group can assist your business by assigning experienced, trained and reliable private investigators to investigate cases of fraud, to conduct background checks, provide covert surveillance, pre-employment screenings, business searches, partner searches, and assist your business in initiating risk management and security safeguards.
[ Financial Investigations / Fraud & Theft Investigations / Pre-Employment Screenings / Covert Surveillance / Background Checks ]
Due Diligence Investigations
Due Diligence is the process of exercising reasonable care to avoid unnecessary exposure. In part, these investigations are done to verify stated information prior to entering into a business transaction. The idea behind this type of investigation is to reveal the truth and minimize business risk while providing quality information to those responsible for making corporate decisions.
Dark Edge Investigative Group can assist you in conducting detailed due diligence investigations. Our private investigators are experienced in conducting due diligence investigations of both external agencies and internal staff. The results of our services can act as a spotlight into past dealings and behavior which in turn may give you a glimpse of what to expect in the future. You may or may not like what you learn from our findings, but our job is to minimize your risk. Due diligence investigations reduce risk and exposure, minimize embarrassing situations, by disclosing any deliberately hidden conflict or information.
Failing to conduct due diligence investigations, you may invite unforeseen problems, emerging issues or even disaster for your organization. What if, unbeknownst to you at the time of your engagement, the subject corporation, and possibly one of its key employees or senior management is, or has been involved in some underhanded or dubious activity? This of course could be embarrassing to say the least, but more importantly, it may damage your corporate image and brand, in addition to costing you time, money and investment to reestablish your reputation and market share. Conducting a due diligence investigation, would eliminate this. A professional due diligence investigation may unearth or formally establish hidden corporate history, former bankruptcies, cash flow problems, regulatory or government charges or issues, liens, litigation histories, media articles, improper activity, illegal activity, shell corporations, corporate filings, names of all Officer and Directors, and much more.
Dark Edge Investigative Group is experienced in conducting due diligence investigations including business background investigations and prospective client investigations.
[ Reduce Risk / Dubious Activity / Hidden History / Bankruptcies/ Illegal Activity / Liens / Background Checks ]
Retail Loss Prevention, Security Audits and Consulting
Dark Edge Investigative Group private investigators are experienced in the field of retail loss prevention, conducting security audits and consulting. Our private investigators (loss prevention) are retired provincial officers formerly attached to a provincial Retail Crown Corporation employing over 8000 employees, with over 650 retail outlets, across the Province of Ontario, and sales of over 2.8 billion dollars annually. They are experienced and have conducted thousands of internal and external investigations into theft and fraud, maintained revolving security audits of all retail premises, corporate offices and distributions centers, enhanced physical security by designing electronic alarm system specifications, digital camera surveillance systems and recommending high grade security locking devices, crash bars, fire alarm systems, fire suppression systems, all in accordance with municipal and Ontario building and fire codes. Dark Edge Investigative Group also conducts internal employee theft and fraud investigations, WSIB Investigations, human rights and human resources investigations.
Retail theft has become a major growing epidemic within grocery stores, shopping malls, big box stores and other retail locations. Retail break and enters have also been on the increase. Theft, internal theft and fraud, as well as break and enters cost the retail industry billions of dollars every year. It is important to implement effective loss prevention and break and enter safeguards. Dark Edge Investigative Group is experienced in this field and is just a telephone call away to assist you in conducting a professional security audit and consultation, complete with recommendations to assist you with your loss prevention needs.
[ Loss Prevention Consulting / Premise Security Audits / Internal Employee Investigations / Electronic Alarm Systems/ Digital Surveillance Camera Systems / WSIB Investigations /
Internal Investigations /Loss Prevention Training ]
WSIB Investigations
Dark Edge Investigative Group investigators are experienced and trained in conducting Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) workplace investigations. Our investigators are highly skilled and qualified with decades of workplace investigative experience in private, public and government organizations. Our seasoned investigators are proficient, qualified and experienced in conducting covert surveillance and hail from provincial law enforcement agencies and a major Retail Crown Corporation with 8000 + employees, over 650 outlets across the Province of Ontario, numerous large distribution centers, and corporate offices in most major cities. They have conducted thousands of investigations, many relating to WSIB spurious claims.
[ WSIB Spurious Claim Investigations / Professional Mobile Surveillance / Securing Witness Statements / Conducting Employee Interviews ]
Missing Persons & Skip Tracing Investigations
Dark Edge Investigative Group will assist you in locating a missing person by utilizing a process private investigators employ called "skip tracing."
A skip tracing investigation is the laborious process of finding and compiling information about a missing person by searching public and private databases, court records, driver’s licence, and vehicle registration records, contacting neighbors and associates. Skip tracing services are utilized by many types of people, including debt collectors, lawyers, paralegals, process servers, landlords, collection agencies, insurance companies, businesses, adopted children attempting to locate biological parents and more.
Often individuals are being sought for many reasons, such as spouses search for an abandoned partner, children search for adopted siblings or an abandoned parent, lawyers or defendants usually search for a witness for a criminal or civil court trial, some are sought for owing spousal or child support payments, others are missing recipients in either a class action law suit or beneficiaries of a will or life insurance policy. Landlords often search for former tenants to have them make good on a judgement, corporations or businesses search for former employees that have committed fraud, theft or embezzled money, and home builders, developers and contractors who skipped town without delivering the goods are sought also by victims.
Whatever your reason, provided that it is legal, if you need someone located, please contact Dark Edge Investigative Group .
[ Missing Person Locate / Skip Tracing / Open Source Intelligence OSINT ]
Regulatory and Administrative Law Investigations
Regulatory bodies are facing heightened public scrutiny and pressure to visibly enforce regulatory and criminal laws. Public backlash against an individual, corporation, organization, institution or profession, about a perceived misconduct can quickly cause irreparable damage to reputation, corporate or organizational brand, employees, senior management, and board of directors. Employers and management must remain vigilant, observant and pro-active about detecting and immediately investigating all potential or suspected regulatory infractions or issues.
Dark Edge Investigative Group is experienced in conducting competent regulatory and administrative investigations. Thorough investigative measures, continuous regulatory audits, training and practicing good governance, your organization could avoid difficulties with regulatory matters. We will work with your legal counsel or team should a regulatory matter develop into a major regulatory agency investigation. Our professional investigators have established regulatory investigative knowledge, experience, skill and resources to conduct investigations and parallel investigations.
We have experience with the following regulatory agencies:
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Ontario Human Rights Commission
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Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario
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College of Nurses Ontario
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Ontario College of Teachers
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Ontario Ministry of Labour
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Labour Relations Board of Ontario
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Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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Occupational Health and Safety Authorities
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College of Physicians and Surgeons
If you or your organization requires a professional comprehensive regulatory investigation, Dark Edge Investigative Group can assist you.
[ Regulatory Investigations / Experience / Knowledge / Parallel Investigations / Work with Legal Counsel or Legal Teams ]
Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (TSCM) Services
Dark Edge Investigative Group provides technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) services to corporations, industries, business, government agencies, corporate offices, organizations, and private residences. TSCM is the process of bug-sweeping or electronic countersurveillance.
We employ professional TSCM technicians and technologists who possess over 40 years of electronic communications countermeasures. Their complementary skills include video surveillance, and electronic tracking.
Dark Edge Investigative Group provides our clients with a safe and secure environment to confidently conduct business and operate personal communication devices. Our TSCM constantly update their knowledge and equipment to meet evolving technological challenges and provide our clients with premium customer service.
Our Technical Surveillance Counter-Measure Service is highly effective in intercepting and safeguarding against surreptitious interception of communications. TSCM Service is available 24 hours a day. This continuous analysis not only ensures secrecy, but the uninterrupted monitoring will not interfere or disrupt regular business operations. This operation can be executed in almost any location including corporate offices, boardrooms, R&D Installations, off-site venues, hotel rooms, residences, cottages, vehicles, aircraft and water craft.
[ Electronic Countermeasures / Bug Sweeping / Confidential Service / Digital Electronic Forensics / 24 Hour Service / Qualified Professional Technologists / Electronic Tracking Countermeasures / State-Of-The-Art Countermeasure Equipment ]
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is achieved by integration of video, still images, audio, and text data from public domain data sources, assessing the ingested data to yield insights not easily visible at first glance of the seemingly unconnected fragments of information. The analysis is based upon computer software learning (A.I.) manipulation and deep neural network algorithms, which enable the system to learn from the data to recognize patterns, trend, and relationships.
Dark Edge Investigative Group provides open-source intelligence (OSINT) services to individuals, corporations, business, government, and law firms. Results from OSINT operations provide data that can enable corporations and business to take effective actions and make informed decisions and improve competitiveness.
[ Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) / Corporations / Retail Businesses / Law Firms / Government Agencies / Individuals ]