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Mar
ONE YEAR ON: A Fuel Thief Identified And Revisited.
We’re coming up to the one year anniversary of our big ‘first case’ that put us on the map as investigators of note within the North East. So we thought we’d share the case study, revised and updated, for celebration’s sake:
Late February last year, we were engaged by a client to investigate one of their members of staff who they believed was stealing fuel from the company’s industrial pumps at the rear of their site. Read more about ONE YEAR ON: A Fuel Thief Identified And Revisited. …
We were minutes away from shutting up our doors last thing on a Friday night after 9 straight days of sixteen hour shifts across the whole of Newcastle, Northumberland, down as far as Middlesborough, up as far as Berwick and pretty much very where else in between. We were broken and, in the case of this particular investigator, looking forward to the five consecutive days off that were planned and minutes away from kicking in.
We continually promote ourselves to law firms, insurers, businesses and private clients around Newcastle and North East as being an investigation and security consultancy service driven with the desire to help people whilst maintaining ethics and integrity in how we conduct our services that, rather sadly, many assume our industry doesn’t possess.
Late last year we completed a 
We are currently trial-running a new service here at Surmount Investigations that we’d like to tell you a bit more about which we’re going to run until August 2018 and then review it thereafter.
We offer a variety of different support services to solicitors and law firms throughout Newcastle, Tyne and Wear and the rest of the North East. The two that we are most prolifically engaged for service on is our process serving and our various types of people tracing. This week we’re going to look at a successful agent-led trace we carried out for one of our solicitor clients on a particularly slippery character.
We work with a variety of clients throughout Newcastle and Tyne & Wear, professionally interviewing and recording evidentially sound statements under a multitude of circumstances that can range from employer/employee disputes and road traffic collisions through to litigation cases and victim of crime impact assessments.
This week, in a change of pace, we’re handing our blog over to one of our recent clients on a Harassment case in Newcastle Upon Tyne to talk through her experience of working with us to bring her distress to an end and hopefully help other people out there who might be in a similar position.
“… ‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…”
Our Newcastle-based client was concerned about one of their staff who had been off for 5 months with an injury they’d claimed they sustained at work. The staff member (let’s call him ‘Bob’) was in the process of taking legal action against their employer and claimed that they could no longer walk around without sticks for support.