04
Jun
Tracing Someone: An Explanation of the Legalities
We receive many, many enquiries a week from people looking to trace individuals for a multitude of reasons and we have an incredibly high standard as to whether we take the case on or not.
This week, especially in light of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) on 25th May 2018, we wanted to take a closer look at the grounds to which we will and will not complete people tracing. Read more about Tracing Someone: An Explanation of the Legalities …
Our Harassment Support Services for people around Newcastle, North Tyneside and the whole of the North East don’t just cover those dealing with an aggressive ex-partner or the world of dating-gone-wrong. It is completely bespoke to anyone and everyone who is being distressed by another party in a variety of different circumstances. Take our most recent case for example, which involved anti-social behaviour from a neighbour.
After a brief period of mild panic whereby half the population considered GDPR to be the new Y2K, the finish line for GDPR compliance has now finally arrived into sight and companies throughout Europe are now all ‘set up’ and in line with the requirements of the new legislation.
We received instruction from a UK insurance company who wanted a secondary investigation completed to support the one completed by their own claims management team in relation to an insurance claim made by one of their policyholders.
Our client based in Tyne and Wear contacted us as they were far along in a bitter custody battle with their ex-partner and starting to lose ground. The client was the father and felt that his case was not being fully and honestly considered because the courts, social services, police and other partnership agencies felt automatically aligned to support the mother in matters of this ilk.
We offer a variety of different support packages to businesses and organisations around Newcastle and the North East when it comes to concerns they may have around one of their employees and how said employee’s behaviour can impact the company from a reputational or security point of view. 
We offer a discreet, highly secure, extremely professional protected asset delivery service to ensure any precious, valuable and/or confidential item is delivered anywhere in the UK. We also, where and when required, work nationally.
For those unaware, a LOCUS report is a formal document made up of various other pieces of evidence that is designed to explain and identify the physical facts of how and where an accident or incident has occurred. The overall document when broken down will contain things such as sketch plans, photographs, localised pertinent intelligence and the authoring agent’s written report. In our area of work within private investigation, they are most commonly used in legal cases such as insurance claims and defence cases pertaining to road traffic collisions and accidents resulting in injury. 
Our client hired us because she was convinced her husband of many, many years was cheating on her with one of his customers.
We’re often told how ‘exciting’ our job must be as PIs and asked what a typical day is like for a private investigator. In truth, no two days are often the same and at Surmount we frequently break our days into different facets: