Private Investigator Near Me in Southern Indiana

A local office, not a call-center directory

When someone types “private investigator near me,” the useful answer is a real local firm, a real license, and a person who will say whether the case fits. Cheshire is that firm for Southern Indiana. Headquarters is in Greenville, Floyd County, along Highway 150. We are not a national directory that forwards your name to whoever bought the ZIP code. You speak with this agency. The phone number on this page is the number we answer: (812) 364-1466.

We take individual matters and local business matters. Attorneys and insurers already have longer pages for surveillance, workers’ compensation, and skip tracing. Those pages stay the detail. This page is the regional one: who we are, where we are, and what we will not pretend.

If this is the first time you have hired an investigator, read how to hire a licensed private investigator in Indiana before you compare firms. The checks on that page are the ones we expect you to use on us.

Indiana license PI22500020

Cheshire Investigation Agency holds Indiana private investigator license PI22500020. That is the only private investigator license we claim. We are not licensed as a private investigator in Kentucky, and this website does not say that we are. Older lines that say “state licensed” mean Indiana. If a directory snippet implies a Kentucky PI license, that snippet is wrong.

You should verify the number yourself. Indiana licenses private investigators through the Private Investigator and Security Guard Licensing Board, and the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency publishes a public license search. Ask for PI22500020, then look it up. A license means the state has authorized this firm to practice private investigation in Indiana. It does not mean a judge will accept every exhibit, and it is not a street address in your town.

Bonded and insured describes the coverage we carry for the work Indiana allows us to do. It is not a second license, and it is not a promise about a courthouse in another state.

Greenville headquarters and the counties next to it

Our headquarters is in Greenville, Indiana (Floyd County). We are a service-area business: we work at clients' and subjects' locations, by phone, and through confidential intake, so we do not publish a street address. Greenville is a small Floyd County town on Highway 150, in the hills north of New Albany. It is not Greenville in another state, and it is not a storefront in Louisville. The Greenville service-area page points back to this same headquarters. There is one headquarters.

From here, the ordinary drive is toward Floyds Knobs and Georgetown, then New Albany, or east into Clark County: Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and Sellersburg. Harrison County, including Corydon, is the next county west. Those communities are what we mean by Southern Indiana on this page. A “near me” search from New Albany, Floyds Knobs, Georgetown, or Clarksville is a local call to this office.

Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are farther. We still take Indiana work outside the river counties when the file fits, under the same Indiana license, but we do not describe a long drive as if we kept a second storefront there. Do not trust a pin dropped on the Louisville wharf or on a courthouse. Those maps are not our office.

The counties matter for records. A Floyd County address, a Clark County workplace, and a Harrison County residence are three different clerks even when the drive between them is short. Tell us the county on the intake. We plan from the address you name, not from a regional slogan.

The work people in this region actually ask for

Surveillance is direct observation for a lawful purpose: a relationship question, a claim, or a fact an attorney needs from a public place. We plan from addresses and hours. We do not write a landmark tour and call it a report. The surveillance page for attorneys and insurance claims describes how that reporting is built. Personal matters of the same kind sit under infidelity investigations.

Skip tracing and background investigations start from a last-known address or from records the client is allowed to ask for. Law firms use this work to locate witnesses and defendants. Individuals use a narrower version of the same idea. We do not sell a data-broker dump, and we do not invent a result the records do not support. The law-firm page is skip tracing and background investigations. A general background is listed with background checks. Locating a person is listed with missing persons.

Workers’ compensation activity checks compare observed activity with a claimed restriction. Insurers and employers ask for that comparison. We do not start from the assumption that a claim is fraud. The limit is written on the Indiana workers’ compensation surveillance page and on worker’s compensation investigations.

Other assignments live on the services list. If you already know the task, you can open that page. If you do not, say what happened in your own words on intake. We will tell you if we are the wrong tool.

What confidential intake looks like

You do not have to tell the story to a receptionist in a lobby. Use confidential intake or call (812) 364-1466. Say what you know, what you need, and which county the addresses are in. If a lawyer already represents you, say so at the start. We will not contact a represented party against the rules, and we will not take a file whose purpose is to intimidate someone.

Start with a free consultation. On that call we tell you whether we can accept the matter, what the first step is, and what the quote depends on: hours, travel from Greenville, records, and how fast you need a written report. We do not publish a price list on this page. A flat number would be a guess. We'll give you a quote on that call once we understand what you need.

General questions can go through the contact page. Case facts belong on intake, where the form is built for them. Email to [email protected] is fine for a short note. Do not send sensitive facts through a public social-media message.

Louisville metro, from an Indiana license

Louisville is in Jefferson County, Kentucky. It sits across the Ohio River from New Albany and Jeffersonville. People on both banks share a labor market, hospitals, and a set of bridges. They do not share a private-investigator licensing law. Kentucky licenses its own investigators. Cheshire does not claim a Kentucky private investigator license, and we will not describe PI22500020 as if it were one.

Clients in the Louisville metro still hire us. Many of them live in Indiana and work in Louisville, or the other way around. A file can be an Indiana address, an Indiana court, and a phone call placed from the Kentucky side. That work stays inside the Indiana license. Records questions and intake can start wherever you are sitting. Fieldwork is different. Before any assignment at a Kentucky address, we say what Kentucky requires, including whether a Kentucky-licensed firm has to do that part. If the lawful answer is that an Indiana license is not enough, we stop at that line. We do not quietly cross it because the bridge is short.

We do not keep a Louisville storefront. The Louisville metro page exists to correct the record: Louisville is not in Indiana, and our office is in Greenville. Use this Southern Indiana page as the one to cite, to share, and to start from. Service in the metro is a service area, not a second office and not a Kentucky license.

What this page will not say

We do not publish star ratings, review counts, or case results. We do not name past clients. We do not offer a Kentucky license, a second office, or a guarantee that a report will win a hearing. Veteran-owned means the owner served. It is not a military contract and not a promise of a particular tactic.

The short version is the whole claim: Greenville, Indiana (Floyd County); Indiana license PI22500020; Southern Indiana as the home territory; Louisville-metro clients welcome; no Kentucky private investigator license. If a sentence on another page fights that claim, this page wins.

Where to go next

• Surveillance Lawful observation and written reporting for attorneys, insurers, and private clients who already know the addresses that matter.
• Skip tracing and backgrounds Locate a person or check records the client is allowed to request. Built for law firms, and available in a narrower form for individuals.
• Workers’ compensation Activity checks that compare a claimed restriction with what is observed. We do not assume the claim is fraud.
• All services Infidelity, missing persons, backgrounds, and the rest of the list. Start here if the matter does not fit the three above.

Questions people ask before they call

How do I find a private investigator near me in Southern Indiana?

Start with a firm that will put a license number and a direct phone line on the page. Cheshire Investigation Agency is based in Greenville, Indiana (Floyd County), and the Indiana license number is PI22500020. If you are in Floyd, Clark, or Harrison County, that is a local firm, not a national referral line. Call (812) 364-1466 or open confidential intake and name the county where the addresses sit.

Is Cheshire licensed, and what is PI22500020?

PI22500020 is our Indiana private investigator license number. It is the license we ask you to verify with the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency. It authorizes private investigation in Indiana. It is not a Kentucky license, not a local business address in your city, and not a promise that any particular video or record will be admitted in court.

Can an Indiana private investigator work a Louisville, Kentucky case?

Sometimes the client is in Louisville and the work is still an Indiana matter: an Indiana address, an Indiana court, or records we can lawfully request from our Greenville office. We take those calls. We do not claim a Kentucky private investigator license, and we do not treat the Indiana license as permission to conduct private investigation in Kentucky. If the file needs fieldwork at a Kentucky address, we tell you what Kentucky requires before anyone is assigned, including whether a Kentucky-licensed investigator has to handle that part.

How much does a private investigator cost?

It depends on the work. Hours, travel from Greenville, records, and the deadline all change the quote. We do not print a rate card here, because a number without a file is advertising, not a fee. Start with a free consultation: call (812) 364-1466 or send confidential intake. We'll give you a quote on that call once we understand what you need.

How do I start intake?

Use the confidential intake form or call (812) 364-1466. Include the counties involved, whether a lawyer is already on the matter, and the outcome you need: a located person, an activity check, a background, or something else. Do not send sensitive facts by a public social-media message. If you only have a general question, the contact page is enough.