Yet an undercover investigation by Panorama has found experts in handwriting, CCTV analysis and animal behaviour prepared to help clients hide the truth in breach of their professional obligations.
Seven workers at the Medway Secure Training Centre in Rochester have been suspended over the allegations, which stem from as-yet unaired undercover filming by the BBC's Panorama programme.
In reality, the authorities said, Mr. Balis, 58, planned to keep much of the money and kick back thousands of dollars to a broker (yet another undercover federal agent) who introduced him to the investor.
I hate to keep posting these unsettling videos, but as long as they keep coming, I feel pretty much obligated: The Humane Society of the United States has released yet another undercover video of disturbing factory farm animal abuse, this time at a Wyoming pig farm owned by a company that supplies Tyson.
For the next few months, our reporters and editors will probe the challenges and potential solutions to the country's waste problem, an issue that has devastating social and environmental consequences, yet is often undercovered in the media.
On Halloween morning, she met with the undercover agent yet again at her office, this time handing him $4,000 what she thought was half of the total payment.
Meanwhile, Mercy For Animals (with some help from Bob Barker, in a sadly dorky intro) has released yet another graphic undercover video of pigs in gestation crates being abused at Christensen Family Farms in Minnesota, one of Wal-Mart's suppliers and the third largest pork supplier in the country.
This year's Outside Land's Festival in Golden Gate Park cleared that bar and passed my very own (non-scientific) undercover-yet-practical Trash Test.Photo by Tanner Pikop.
Other women who were deceived into having relationships with undercover officers have yet to settle their legal actions against the police.
Another concern is the way in which officers are pulled out of their undercover roles and yet still able to use the characters created for them after they leave the police.
