Jorge Salgado-Reyes

Jorge moved to the UK at age seven from Chile, where he was born. He is tri-lingual, having lived in the UK and Mozambique, speaking fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Jorge came up through the ranks in various high street retail stores until he became a Security Manager for a leading high street book seller and then various roles as a Senior Retail Loss Prevention Investigator at a national level.

In April 2006, after seventeen years in retail fraud investigations, he started his own private investigator agency, Allied Detectives (UK) and Salgado Investigations (Chile) specialising in corporate investigations, surveillance, process serving and tracing.

Jorge is a founder member of e-Legal Gathering, an online discussion forum for private investigators. He has an Edexcel BTEC Advanced Private Investigation Level 3 Diploma and a BTEC award in Investigative Interviewing. He has served on WAPI's Governing Council and is a Fellow, after having served as General Secretary for a year.

Jorge is also penning his debut Science Fiction novel, "The Smoke In Death's Eye." Available for pre-order from Amazon. The novel features a Private Investigator in a futuristic (2118 AD) London setting :- "In a dystopian future of nanotechnology and ubiquitous CCTV, a Private Investigator, tortured by the disappearance of his wife, investigates a series of brutal slayings".

Future books planned are The Zen of Shoplifting and The Zen of Sleuthing, available for pre-order from Amazon.

He also enjoys writing poetry and is an amateur photographer.

His Instagram page is @dragonhold_photography