Biggles Blog # 1

Hi everyone

this is Biggles first Blog so be gentle on me, I am currently a licensed and working Private Investigator in beautiful, sunny (&HOT!) Queensland, Australia and that heat may have fried my brain!

I intend covering the sorts of issues that I get asked all the time about Private Investigations work and it's close cousin - the Security Industry, where I train prospective Security Officers and Crowd Controller's.

I am passionate about both industries and I want to see it presented as a viable and professional option for those wishing to work in either field. Too often I am seeing prospective Security staff coming to my courses with no idea of what is involved, absolutely no intention of improving their lot and stepping up to the plate when it comes to presenting a professional and client centred image. Many attend the course because they have been told to by their Social Welfare agency and think that Security is a dead beat, dead end job where they can sit in a booth and watch tv or worse, gain a weapons licence and go out in an Armoured truck with a gun on their hip.

I want to raise the thinking and maybe challenge that thinking of those who may choose to read this, I want to see these industry's reach their deserved place in the professional scheme of things. Both are vital, dynamic, technology driven fields that require high standards, standards that for some reason a lot of trainee's think only apply to others. Strange.

Call it a reflection on society in general or whatever you like but I want to raise that perception higher.

Although I have been in law enforcement for 30 odd years I do not subscribe to blindly following the pack in terms of legislation and enforcement. I am, unashamedly Libertarian in Philosophy and I want you to question the wrongs of our current Political and Philosophical base as much as the "right". My Libertarianism has developed over many years of enforcing dumb laws, witnessing incompetance and corruption in all spheres that ultimately, I believe, has led to the current poor state ( read almost non existant) of our overall philosophical underpinnings. I firmly believe this lack of philosophical understanding - perhaps better thought of as our moral base, is the reason our society is spiralling into anarchy, drunkeness, drug abuse, and out of control youth. I mean, the latest version of schoolies on the Gold Coast has been widely reported as the most drunken in the history of the event. Something to boast about? Not! Yet the youngsters who attended will boast just that. We need to take responsibility for our actions, something seldom heard in this day and age where Kevin 747 will have you believe only he and his ilk can save us. Only Government can right the ill's of society he'd have you believe. Bollocks!

Stand up and be counted, and you will see the PI & Security Industry shrink, not boom as they currently are.

That little rant out of the way, I hope to give you more positive reflections of my working experiences and tips that might assist you to stay safe. If you are entering either industry, I am more that happy to answer your questions and concerns about any issue. I intend to present regular, but not daily, updates on Investigation and Security issues, training hints and tips, techniques you might want to adopt if you join us in either field.

Let me know what concerns you, ask me how you can gain employment in these professions, argue with me, educate me but think about what you are saying first.

I look forward to the future with optimism and hope...do you?

Best wishes
Biggles