Fog City Investigations is a full service Private Detective Agency. Our main office is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We also have investigative offices located through out California, Agents in Tennessee, Oregon, Florida, and an office in New York. We provide businesses, corporations, attorneys and individuals with the information they need to make more informed and up-to-date business and personal decisions. Our firm's investigative training and experience exceeds more than 125 years, and all our investigators are court certified experts in their respective fields.

Fog City Investigations was started in 1989 and formally established in 1991 by me, Douglas Hansen, while I worked for the San Francisco Police Department. Based on my reputation for honesty and hard work, San Francisco and building officials asked me to set up and manage a large security task force to help the city build a multi-million dollar housing project being developed in the Bay View/Hunters Point area of San Francisco. This area is well known for it's gangs, drugs, and the violence they cause, leading to the highest gang/homicide rate in the city. During this time, I was was working with the Department's rapid response "Housing Task Force", which responded to all calls for police assistance emanating from the Gang infested low-income housing units. I was granted permission by my department, (Captain Gamez)to take a leave of absence and handle this complex assignment. This separation from the department enabled me to form a complete security company so I could devote 100% of my time to this complicated and many times dangerous assignment. One night while guarding equipment at this new complex, someone with a large caliber weapon opened fire on me placing all the shots around me. This was a message telling me to watch my back. Since I could not call 911 for police help (I refused to pay my superiors kickbacks from the six figure security contract) I set up a meeting with the gang leaders and worked out an arrangement that guaranteed my safety and the safety of twenty-five officers working for me. During this meeting I learned that the gangs not only liked me, but respected me for my honesty. I was told they were actually looking out for my safety and would not harm me. They learned certain police officials were very upset with me for not letting them in on the security contract which was almost two hundred thousand dollars. I was advised to watch my back from jealous officers and that if I called 911 for help, it would go unanswered. One of the gang leaders gave me his pager number and told me to call should I need help.

After I successfully completed this project, I was asked to provide armed security agents for Sumitomo Banks located in San Francisco and Oakland. After completing this latter assignment, I returned to the police department, and retired four years later. I decided to devote all my time to my new security and investigation business. I liked working with a wide range of clients, from the "Rich and Famous" to the everyday client.

Fog City Investigations now provides private investigative services for corporations and businesses throughout California and the Country. We have a large list of clients in the San Francisco Greater Bay Area, including, but not limited to; State Compensation Insurance Fund, State Farm Insurance, General Dynamics, Liberty Mutual, Northwestern Mutual Life, the City of Oakland, and the California Administrative Court System. Since I am an expert in narcotic investigations and addiction,I also handle domestic investigations relating to family members concerned that a family member is using narcotics or has a drug problem.

Our clients are extremely happy with our finished work product. We maintain the highest level of Integrity and Accountability every day in our effort to assist our clients as best we can.

On June 21, 2006, CBS NEWS, Channel 5 in San Francisco, did a story on "Information Brokers" and featured"Fog City Investigations" in their story. I am known as a venerated private investigator. I was called upon by CBS news management to do an interview on "Personal Privacy" and to talk about how data brokers routinely sell personal information on individuals, as well as commercial information on businesses. The story was well received and aired twice on TV. I did a great job explaining what "personal" and "commercial" information is, how it affects everyone, and how brokers get it, legal and otherwise.

Our Professional Investigative Achievements Include

After earning a degree in Criminal Justice, I worked over 23 years as a law enforcement official conducting in-depth criminal investigations. I have qualified as an investigative expert throughout the country, and testify accordingly in court. I am a graduate and Valedictorian of four Major Law Enforcement Academies, and have completed numerous investigative and administrative training programs over a 30 year period. Some of my most notable accomplishments include, but are not limited to:

United States Drug Enforcement Special Agent Academy, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, Washington, DC (Valedictorian).

South Dakota Highway Patrol/State Municipal Police Academy, Pierre, SD. (Rank 2nd)

California Department of Corrections, San Quentin, CA (Valedictorian).

San Francisco Police Academy, San Francisco, CA (Valedictorian).

Advanced P.O.S.T. Certificate, "California Peace Officer Standards of Training"

While working as a Police Investigator, I received two medals of valor involving firearms and shootings, three Police Commission Commendations from the S.F.P.D., One Federal Bureau of Investigation Commendation (FBI) for responding to a Bank Robbery in progress and apprehending FIVE ARMED BANK ROBBERS, without firing a shot from my Thompson .45 Caliber machine gun. A weapon from World War Two. This was the weapon I chose to carry in the trunk of my car while working as an under cover agent for a Ten county narcotics Task Force. I also earned over 300 Captain Commendations for heroism and outstanding police work while working for the San Francisco Police Department.

My most notable criminal court case, as a private investigator, was the People v Burleson (1995 - 2000). A complex criminal case involving, Domestic Violence, by a convicted murderer diagnosed as criminally insane, and possessing a genius "IQ", (The Real Hannibal) He was facing California's "Three Strikes" law, & life in prison, regardless of the current verdict for Stalking,aggravated assault, and terrorist threats via the tape recordings of 19 hours of terrifying phone calls where the suspect told the victim, his wife, how he was going to murder her elderly parents in the most horrifying fashion. After listening to these tapes and listening to this monster talk for months, including the murder of my own father, (the prison grapevine knows all), I was pushed to far. I finished the court case and actually got his assault charges "Found Not Guilty" by the jury, due to an outstanding job of using experts. This case was so horrifying, that it shook me to my core and I refused to do these defense cases for the next ten years.

My most notable in-depth civil case took almost two years to complete, (2004 - 2006), and literally saved a corporation the sum of "one hundred and fifty million dollars". I was able to expose the perpetrator to my client within days of my client losing control of the family corporation to a very clever ex-convict.

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