Detection of Listening Devices / Bugs

Home, office, boardroom, vehicles, computers, phones & P.A.B.X.

Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group is one of only a few Investigation companies that take the business of listening device/bug detection very seriously. We have over 24 years of continuous experience in this field and employ the latest technological advances in equipment as well as skilled and regularly informed technical operatives.

Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group does not install listening devices. It is an offence in most states to use listening devices and in many states this act holds serious financial penalties as well as gaol terms.

Lyonswood holds the appropriate Government licenses to undertake this work as well as the competency levels required.

Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group’s management and operatives understand the importance of secure conversations and also how easy it is for a partner, employee or competitor to gain a strategic advantage from being able to intercept and track your conversations, computer transmissions, vehicles and conversations that may relate to a tendering, contractual, intellectual property, strategic intelligence or matrimonial matter.

Your legal right to privacy in regard to conversations is often abused by the greedy and unscrupulous and quite often in breach of Federal and State laws.

At Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group we understand the laws related to conversation intercepts and recordings, and the importance of discretion, confidentiality and provide you with an undertaking to protect YOUR rights and YOUR confidentiality.

We understand that your suspicions are generally founded upon your knowledge that information that was discussed in confidence with trusted parties has come into the possession of the other side, possibly a business competitor, rival or marital partner.

At Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group, we don’t just go about the business of locating listening devices/ bugs, we also provide you with a security risk assessment and instruct you upon strategies you can employ to avoid being listened to. After all, prevention is better than cure. A further part of our service is related to locating and providing irrefutable evidence of the identity of the person/s who planted the device. This evidence can have a very strategic effect upon your future direction, knowing what it was they overheard and possible recovery action against the perpetrator/s.

If you are a business and considering relocating to or perhaps constructing a new premises from which to trade, we can even provide you with a consultancy to assist in minimising the risks of being eavesdropped at that location. Electronic eavesdropping threats have increased in recent times because the spread of technology has enabled the ordinary person to procure and install devices which can be purchased very readily over the Internet or at your local electrical equipment store. Mobile telephones are the most commonly sold listening devices, they even record and store video for up to 30 minutes and are very easily secreted upon the person and carried into boardrooms etc. Most modern mobile phones have a large storage capacity for conversation and can be either switched to record mode or the phone can be dialled to another number and left open and as long as power is connected to the phone it will transmit conversation and vision. A search of the Internet on Google by using the words ‘Listening Devices’ or ‘Bugs’ will lead you to a host of suppliers and manuals from which the unscrupulous can readily source their equipment.

Sophisticated listening devices can be as small as a pea and as thin as a coin and hidden within the strap on a shoulder bag, in a lounge suit, within the structure of furniture such as a board room table or perhaps secreted within that bunch of flowers you just received. We have detected listening devices in all these places and even more clever and ingenious locations. We have a museum display cabinet at our offices where we proudly display some of the devices we have located and the evolution of the sophistication of the equipment used to detect the frequencies that they transmit under.

If you believe that your telephones or premises are being listened to or bugged by unauthorised persons we ask you to be cautious about how you go about the detection. In the first instance, if you believe that information has been intercepted via listening devices/bugs you should not discuss that suspicion within the confines of the area you believe is being unlawfully intercepted. The safest place to discuss you problem is away from those premises and not over landline telephones. It is possible that if your business premises are being bugged then it is likely your home premises and car could also be bugged or tracked.

To contact Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group, the most secure way is via a mobile phone or e-mail that is not connected to the premises you suspect is bugged. Computer spy ware is also easily procured and installed and this is one of the fastest growing areas of eavesdropping. If calling on a mobile phone make sure you are away from your premises and not within a motor vehicle as this may also be fitted with a listening device.

We at Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group understand that the detection of listening devices/ bugs cannot always be carried out during normal trading hours for discretionary reasons, and we can call upon your premises 24 hours 365 days of the year.

Contact Lyonswood Investigations and Forensic Group on 02 98196833 or info@investigators.net.au for a cost free interview or discussion about your matter. Remember if you do call from your mobile, be sure to mention that you are in a secure location so that we can freely discuss and hopefully resolve your problem and allow you the peace of mind to continue with your day to day activities with a reduced risk of espionage/ eavesdropping.