GPS Tracking Investigations

GPS tracking investigations are not a gadget you buy online and hope for the best. At Investigations Plus, tracking is a lawful support tool used only when the client has a right to place or authorize a device, and only when the resulting location data will actually answer the file. Used properly, it shows routes, dwell times, and patterns that physical surveillance would take weeks to sample. Used improperly, it is a criminal problem. We will not cross that line.

When this service is the right file

• You own the vehicle or have clear legal authority over it, and you need movement history for a family, corporate, or insurance file.
• Physical surveillance cannot cover long highway stretches or overnight runs.
• A pattern of job sites, storage units, or second residences needs mapping before investigators sit a post.
• A fleet or company vehicle may be used off-policy and the employer has the right to know.
• Counsel wants objective location data to test a sworn account of where someone was.

How the investigation is done

Intake confirms ownership, authority, and the legal theory before any hardware is discussed. If you do not have the right, we stop and may recommend surveillance instead. If you do, we discuss covert versus overt devices, battery life, reporting intervals, and how data will be downloaded and preserved. Install and recovery are done so the vehicle is not damaged and the work is not obvious to the wrong audience. Analysts then convert pings into a readable history: frequent addresses, overnight locations, and anomalies. That history often feeds a later surveillance day so investigators are not guessing which exit to use.

What you receive

• Device install and recovery notes
• Raw location exports with timestamps
• Mapped routes and dwell summaries
• Correlation notes against known addresses
• A written opinion of what the data can and cannot prove

Legal and ethical limits

Placing a tracker on a vehicle you do not own or control can be a criminal offence in Canada. Provincial privacy expectations and PSISA still apply even when you own the car. We document authority. We do not track people as people — we track a vehicle under a lawful mandate. We will not help you track a spouse’s secretly owned car, a neighbour, or an employee using a personal vehicle without a proper legal basis.

Who typically retains this work

Vehicle owners, companies with fleet policies, insurers with authority in the claim, and lawyers who have already tested the legal question. Private curiosity is not a mandate.

Where we handle these files

Devices can report anywhere in Canada the network allows. Field install and recovery are scheduled in Ontario first and arranged elsewhere in Canada when the vehicle will not return.

Related services

These investigations are often used together. Open any service to see how we handle it.

• Surveillance
• Night Vision Surveillance
• Asset Tracing

If you think a tracker is the shortcut, ask us first. The confidential consultation is often a legal screen, not a sales call. If tracking is not lawful, we will point you to surveillance or skip tracing instead.

Typical fact patterns

You own the vehicle or have clear legal authority over it, and you need movement history for a family, corporate, or insurance file. Physical surveillance cannot cover long highway stretches or overnight runs. A pattern of job sites, storage units, or second residences needs mapping before investigators sit a post. A fleet or company vehicle may be used off-policy and the employer has the right to know. Counsel wants objective location data to test a sworn account of where someone was.

Deliverables in practice

Device install and recovery notes Raw location exports with timestamps Mapped routes and dwell summaries Correlation notes against known addresses A written opinion of what the data can and cannot prove Intake confirms ownership, authority, and the legal theory before any hardware is discussed. If you do not have the right, we stop and may recommend surveillance instead. If you do, we discuss covert versus overt devices, battery life, reporting intervals, and how data will be downloaded and preserved. Install and recovery are done so the vehicle is not damaged and the work is not obvious to the wrong audience. Analysts then convert pings into a readable history: frequent addresses, overnight locations, and anomalies. That history often feeds a later surveillance day so investigators are not guessing which exit to use.

Vehicle owners, companies with fleet policies, insurers with authority in the claim, and lawyers who have already tested the legal question. Private curiosity is not a mandate. Devices can report anywhere in Canada the network allows. Field install and recovery are scheduled in Ontario first and arranged elsewhere in Canada when the vehicle will not return.

If you think a tracker is the shortcut, ask us first. The confidential consultation is often a legal screen, not a sales call. If tracking is not lawful, we will point you to surveillance or skip tracing instead. Placing a tracker on a vehicle you do not own or control can be a criminal offence in Canada. Provincial privacy expectations and PSISA still apply even when you own the car. We document authority. We do not track people as people — we track a vehicle under a lawful mandate. We will not help you track a spouse’s secretly owned car, a neighbour, or an employee using a personal vehicle without a proper legal basis.