UNFAITHFUL individuals who have been hiding under the cloak of secrecy will have a hard time covering their tracks following the licensing of a private investigations firm offering a wide array of services including smoking out cheating partners.
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The new Harare firm, FoxHunters Private Investigators, will offer undercover investigations services, matrimonial and relationships investigations (cheating spouse’s video surveillance), commercial and corporate investigations, tracing people, surveillance investigations, lost or stolen cellphone tracking and phone call tracing.
The company’s managing director Zack Chidavaenzi said he decided to start the company after realising that the Zimbabwe Republic Police was too overwhelmed to offer the service.
“The organisation was registered in 2012 with the Ministry of Home Affairs,” Chidavaenzi said. “We do a number of investigations and these include company investigations where we go into companies as undercover employees. We join the companies as employees and see how they (workers) take out some stuff; it is like monitoring and seeing how employees are stealing from the company.”
He said they also receive phone enquiries from people who would want to investigate their partners.
“Suspecting partners also contact us to help them, but some then do not go ahead with the investigations because of affordability,” he said.
He said they charge $1 200 for surveillance, during which they monitor the movements of one’s partner to see if they are having any extramarital affairs.
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“There are rules that we have to abide by when we are doing our work like the right to privacy. We only follow and record people when they are in a public place, but when in private we don’t,” Chidavaenzi said.
Lawyers, however, said that having people monitoring someone was an infringement of one’s rights unless he or she was a suspect in a crime.
“If people follow someone and that person doesn’t know about it, they will be infringing on his rights according to the Constitution,” a lawyer said.
“There is the right to dignity which says every person has inherent dignity in their private and public life, and the right to have that dignity respected and protected.”
The right to privacy entails that every person has the right not to have their home, premises or property entered without their permission; it also entails the privacy of communication.
