ISA excels at providing in-depth expertise in four main areas:
Security, Corporate Investigations, Private Investigations and Corporate Consulting.

License # 117-000961

Protecting and Recovering
What's Important to You.

Professionalism
and Experience
are the Prints
of Success.

Phone:
(312)755-9700


ABOUT US


SERVICES

Whether you're looking to find a person, investigate an employee theft or recover assets, ISA private investigators provide professional and discreet services for all of your private or corporate investigation needs. ISA bodyguards are trained to ensure the highest level of personal protection, and our agency offers the highest degrees of professionalism and experience.

For more information on our services please contact us at (312) 755-9700.

Corporate Investigations:
• Countermeasures and Debugging
• Aerial Surveillance and Photos
• Asset Recovery
• Background Checks
• Accident Investigations
• Insurance Fraud
• Workman’s Compensation

Private Investigations:

• Surveillance
• Marital/Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Civil/Criminal Investigations
• Missing Persons

Security Services:

• Executive Protection
• Political/Celebrity Bodyguard
• Special Event Security
• Site Security

Corporate Consulting:
• Loss Analysis and Prevention
• Workplace Violence
• Security Staff Training
• Crisis Management
• Security Audits
• Employee Screening
• Psychological Testing

CLIENTS

ISA has worked on nearly 100 cases with a variety of clients, ranging from professional services firms, small business owners, major communications and financial firms, major retailers, abductions and missing persons, federal agencies and one of the nations largest insurers. Our clients include:
Citibank
Cubs Food
Sam’s Club
WGN News Schartz & Freeman
Cain Millworks
Chicago Tribune Saks Fifth Avenue
Musicland
Quill Corporation Rockford Mutual Insurance
North Shore Montessori North Shore Country Day School
Tweeter Center
The United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Federal Bureau of Investigations

CRIME FACTS

Did you know: Employee theft costs US businesses between $67 and $320 billion per year, or the first contact between a child and an abductor occurs within a quarter-mile of the child's home.

Select a topic below to learn more about a crime that might affect your home, neighborhood, or workplace.

Employee Theft

Employee theft costs US businesses between $67 and $320 billion per year, not including the billions spent antitheft means.
More damaging than burglary, it accounts for more than 44% of all retail losses in the United States.
The average financial loss caused by a typical dishonest employee is $1,023.00.
95% of total losses from employee theft is caused by less than 10% of the employee population.
Nearly 1/3 of all bankruptcies is caused by employee theft.
Dishonest employees steal to the degree the system allows and don’t stop until they are caught.
There is a direct correlation between drug abuse and employee theft.
75% of all employees steal from their company once, 40% steal twice.
Some employees steal because of resentment over real or imagined injustice in the workplace.
Some feel that they must maintain status and steal to augment their incomes because of financial problems.
Others steal simply for excitement.

Signs of theft in progress:
Gambling on or off premises.
Excessive drinking or signs of drug use.
Obvious extravagance.
Persistent borrowing.
Requests for advances.
Bouncing personal checks or post-dated checks.

Identity Theft/Fraud

Identity thieves obtain your personal information by:
Stealing wallets and purses containing your identification, credit and bank cards.
Stealing your mail, your bank and credit card statements, pre-approved credit offers, new checks, and tax information.
Completing a “change of address form” to divert your mail to another location.
Rummaging through your trash, or the trash of businesses, for personal data in a practice known as “dumpster diving.”
Fraudulently obtaining your credit report by posing as a landlord, employer or someone else who may have a legitimate need for, and legal right to, the information.
Finding personal information in your home.
Using personal information you share on the internet.
Getting your information from the workplace by stealing files out of offices where you’re a customer, employee, patient or student; bribing an employee who has access to your files; or “hacking” into electronic files.
They may scam you, often through email, by posing as legitimate companies or government agencies you do business with.

Identity thieves use your personal information by:
Calling your credit card issuer and, pretending to be you, ask to change the mailing address on your credit card account. The impostor then runs up charges on your account and because your bills are being sent to the new address, it may take some time before you realize there’s a problem.
Opening a new credit card account, using your name, date of birth and SSN. When they use the credit card and don’t pay the bills, the delinquent account is reported on your credit report.
Establishing phone or wireless service in your name.
Opening a bank account in your name and write bad checks on that account.
Filing for bankruptcy under your name to avoid paying debts they’ve incurred under your name, or to avoid eviction.
Using counterfeit checks or debit cards, and drain your bank account.
Buying cars by taking out auto loans in your name.
Giving your name to the police during an arrest. If they’re released from police custody, but don’t show up for their court date, an arrest warrant is issued in your name.

Domestic Violence

In the US the leading cause of injury to women between ages 15 and 44 is domestic violence - more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.
Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten.
Battered women have an increased chance to suffer miscarriages and give birth to babies with a low birth weigh.
50% of homeless women and children are on the streets because they fled violent homes.
Domestic violence occurs in all income levels, occupations, ages, races, and cultures.

Child Abductions

In the US 1.8 Million children are reported missing every year.
In missing child homicides 74% of the children are murdered within the first three hours of abduction.
Of every 10,000 reported missing children an average of one is found murdered.
Family kidnappings are primarily committed by parents.
80% of abductions are by strangers.
114,000 children are reported abducted by strangers every year.
Strangers more often kidnap females than males, and primarily at outdoor locations.
4 million convicted child molesters live in the US. (1 per sq. mile).
For every 1 convicted child molester, there are 5 that haven't been caught.
Your child has the EXACT same chance of being abducted as any other child.

Corporate Espionage

Small businesses are greater targets of industrial spies because they have more competitors.
Toy manufacturers and the video game industry suffer the greatest risk of espionage attack.
The FBI values industrial espionage as a $200 billion annual cost to business.
In all cases of informational compromise the average citizen is the ultimate victim via increased taxation and liability costs.
Industrial espionage spies are 21 - 35 years old, hold low value college degrees, considered loners, and have clean records as not to inhibit sensitive employment.
Industrial spies show an interest in what coworkers are doing, always volunteer for extra duties and assignments, work late hours and rarely take vacations.
Informational collection is a science. People have predictable vulnerabilities that make collection an intuitive process and spies understand this.
Informal meetings and casual conversations in bars, plane trips and dinner tables become the prime source of industrial intelligence gathering.
Some major corporations have a "honey pot" computer with fake information that intentionally hurts competitors.
Telephone directories place FAKE listing in their directory to catch rival publishers violating their copyrights.
Pizza delivery-men are great spies when something's up.
10 Billion is stolen from banks every year. When a victimized customer proves a fraudulent transaction the targeted bank reimburses the account and suppresses any publicity as not to lose public trust.
Spies use business cards stolen from restaurant "fish bowls" to steal an identity and gain access into a company.
A keyghost device the size of a "cigarette butt" can be placed in back of a computer to record all passwords and information typed into the keyboard.
The Tempest Attack is a radiation reading devise that can read everything on a computer screen 100 feet away.

WEB LINKS

Chicago Chamber of Commerce:
http://chicagolandchamber.org

Better Business Bureau:
http://www.bbbonline.org

Chicago Police Department:
http://egov.cityofchicago.org

Bradley Sisters Search:
http://www.thebradleysisters.com

TESTIMONIALS

“ISA is outstanding. I have especially enjoyed the level of rapport we developed with their senior management. We appreciate their professionalism, their flexibility and accessibility. In one club, our losses were cut by 54%.”
Jason Whiley, Loss Prevention Supervisor - Sam’s Club

“I was very satisfied. ISA sends written reports every two weeks, providing detailed reports of their activity. Other agencies only provide nonspecific verbal reports, such as, ‘we’re still working on it.’ ISA is more determined than others I have worked with. They will find a legal way to get the job done. They are very knowledgeable and competent. They have access to information, databases other investigators don’t seem to have.”
Victor Reyes - Childress & Zdeb, Ltd.

“ISA does wonderful work. They are very thorough. I have referred them to other clients, and they have also done wonderful work for them. They are far more thorough than other investigators we have used. In a couple of instances, they uncovered information that was a real surprise, very useful. I have a lot of respect for them. They are very responsive. You get your answers back very quickly.”
Dan O’Malley - O’Malley and Company, Certified Public Accountants

“ISA is unusually professional, yet not intimidating. They were able to come up with a lot of information we wouldn’t have otherwise found. Jim seems to have a really good grasp of psychological profiles. He’s very quick, very perceptive. I like their style. It’s low-key and easy going. I absolutely recommend ISA.”
Business Owner

“I found ISA to be very trustworthy and very committed. I was really impressed with the turnaround time and was very satisfied.”
Pati Flannery

“In a fairly short amount of time, ISA helped us secure a $9,000 recovery. We were very happy to have it.”
Security Director - High Profile Fashion Retailer

“Integrity, responsiveness and professionalism is what you expect when you work with ISA. They are very well educated, they grasp things, situations quickly, and they present themselves very well.”
Joseph C. Santucci, President - Cain Millworks

“They did a great job.”
Security Director - One of the world’s largest communications companies

“Absolutely one of the best investigative firms in the city. We expected nothing but the best, and that’s exactly what we received. ISA provided professional and thorough training to members of our international security staff. They are extremely dedicated to the needs of their clients. They genuinely care for people and are extensively knowledgeable.”
Director of Safety & Security - Aurthur Andersen, LLP/Chicago

PRESS

Articles

New Demands for Homeland Security - Forbes Magazine

Mod P.I. Finds Dirt in Boardrooms, Cyber Alleys - Skyline

Reporter’s Life and Open Book on Net - Chicago Tribune

Chamber Chat - Darien Chamber of Commerce

The Gumshoe Factor... Background Check - Chicago Tribune

P.I. in Bradley Girls Case Reports Attack - Chicago Defender

James Miller, Detective for Hire - GSB Chicago

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - May - July 2004

CONTENTS

ISA Embarks Upon Homeland Security Detail

Diversity & Sensitivity Training Seminars

Protect Yourself From Illegal Eavesdropping With Covert Bug Detectors

ISA Champions Missing Children’s Cause

ISA Expansion