It’s been 175 years since Allan Pinkerton founded what became the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to tighten a widening gap in reliable, professional security and investigative services—especially for railroads and express companies—at a time when public law enforcement was fragmented, under-resourced, and limited by jurisdiction. Criminals knew just how to exploit that gap. Allan’s own rise from exposing a local counterfeiting ring to serving as a deputy sheriff and city detective convinced

Since the beginning of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency in the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton was a stalwart ally to banks and banking institutions, tracking down burglars, sneak thieves, counterfeiters, forgers, and their kind. As criminals became more brazen, so did the Agency. Check out the video below to see how Pinkerton continues to be an ally to the banking sector. We never sleep. | Pinkerton