A group of Peruvian women known as the “Phoenix Squad” have become famous for specializing in catching unfaithful people throughout Lima and the entire South American Country.

For the past 20 years, the Phoenix Squad has been working hard at exposing unfaithful partners in their home country of Peru. According to founder Jessica Melina, the group has solved over 10,000 cases in the last couple of decades, using a variety of tools and techniques, from old-fashioned detective work to drone surveillance and tiny hidden cameras. Although the Phoenix Squad does not discriminate between men and women when it comes to cheating, they do have one particularity – from the very beginning, its members have been exclusively female, because Melina believes they are most suitable for this type of work.

“I decided to form my own detective squad, but only made up of women, because I realized that they provided better results,” Jessica told La República newspaper, adding that they can go unnoticed, camouflage themselves better, and solve problems much more quickly.

Jessica Melina says that the Phoenix Squad was born out of people’s necessity to gather evidence of infidelity in divorce and child custody proceedings. Having worked with her uncle, who was a detective, she decided to fill this void in the market with an all-female detective team.

Ada Hinostroza, one of the detectives on the Phoenix Squad, told RPP that every case is different, but in straightforward situations, the team can get the evidence they need in a matter of hours. Their record so far is solving an infidelity case in just four hours.

Interestingly, according to the data gathered by the Phoenix Squad over the last 20 years, women are considerably more unfaithful than men. Detective Liz Rodriguez claims that 70% of the cases they handle involve unfaithful women, compared to only 30% of men. Founder Jessica Melina also points out that, in the last two years, of the 10 cases she investigated per week, 8 of them involved women being unfaithful to their partners.

Although it’s technically a job, the members of the Phoenix Squad view themselves as defenders of fidelity, hunting down cheating men and women all over Peru.