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Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
- Allan Pinkerton - Wikipedia
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a...
- Allan Pinkerton - Wikipedia
Pinkerton (pierwotnie: Pinkerton National Detective Agency) – amerykańskie przedsiębiorstwo zajmujące się ochroną mienia i osób (prywatna agencja ochrony) oraz wykonujące usługi detektywistyczne, założone w 1850 roku przez Allana Pinkertona.
Były to m.in. inwigilacja podejrzanego, infiltracja środowisk przestępczych poprzez „pracę pod przykryciem”. Po wybuchu wojny domowej Pinkerton był, w latach 1861–1862, szefem służb wywiadowczych Union Intelligence Service.
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Kate Warne (c. 1833 – January 28, 1868) was an American law enforcement officer best known as the first female detective in the United States, for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
From our roots serving as an intelligence agency during the Civil War, Pinkerton has continued to build an impressive track record establishing the first criminal database, being the first company to hire a female detective, and being a forerunner for the secret service.
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-born detective and founder of a famous American private detective agency. Pinkerton was the son of a police sergeant who died when Allan was a child, leaving the family in great poverty. Allan found work as a cooper and soon became involved in Chartism, a mass.
