About Us
Who are we?
Kevin Cline is the President and Lead Investigator of Cline Investigations, LLC. He is a medically retired law enforcement officer with 15 years of education, training and experience as a full-time sworn law enforcement officer in the state of California. Since retiring from law enforcement in 2010, he has accumulated over 14 years of private investigation education and industry experience. Kevin always had a passion for helping others and when he could no longer do that physically as a full-time law enforcement officer, he found a way through private investigations. As a PI, he continues to provide professional investigative services helping others with their respective investigative requests.
*A little secret: Kevin thrives on working with families and law enforcement agencies on cold homicide and missing persons cases. He fully believes having a "fresh set of eyes" on a cold case can almost always result in a successful resolution, thereby providing the final closure for the Victim, their families, their friends, their respective communities and the law enforcement agencies involved.
Cline Investigations, LLC is a licensed and insured Private Investigations company located in Northern California. CI LLC provides a wide range of professional investigative services for private, government, tribal, corporate, and international clientele. We have worked investigations with federal, tribal, state, county, and city governmental agencies as well as civilian clientele. We are based in Mendocino County, but provide investigative services throughout the state of California. CI LLC will be licensed and able to take on cases in other states in the very near future!
Professional Investigative Services
CI LLC can provide the following professional investigative services: cold case review and investigation; civilian and corporate pre-employment background investigations; California Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) approved law enforcement background investigations; crime scene and death investigation review and consultation; public safety internal affairs investigations; missing persons; skip tracing; asset location and retrieval; judgement recovery; criminal defense and civil investigations; expert court testimony; personnel investigations; evidence examination and auditing; business and investor due diligence investigations; process and notary services; residential and commercial threat and security assessment consultations; and business, family, or personal protection consultations.
Coming Soon: A security guard division to provide physical and property security, crime prevention, detection and patrol services for government and private contracts throughout the state of California.
We can provide Education, Training, and Experience Certifications, as well as Professional References upon request!
Rates and Fees
- Hourly rates and fixed investigative service fees vary depending on the type of investigative service requested.
- All rates/fees are disclosed to the client before any work begins.
- All mileage traveled in performance of the investigation are billed at the current IRS mileage reimbursement rate.
- All out-of-pocket expenses paid by the Investigator in performance of the investigation are billed to the client at cost.
- Some investigative services have a one-time service fee, while other investigations may require a minimum service fee, plus hourly fees to complete the investigation as requested.
- Larger investigations may require an advanced fee to get the investigation started and all investigative hours and costs will be billed against the advance fee in increments as agreed upon with the client.