Private Investigation, Evidence Gathering & Security Consultancy to private clients & businesses in Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, Durham & Northumberland. Discreet & Dependable Detection Company.
We did a great job of achieving our objectives within our first year of business in 2017 which you can read a bit more about here in one of our previous blog posts.
Moving forward into our second year though we feel it’s important to set ourselves new goals for expansion and development and we’d really like your help doing that.
How can you help? Well… Read more about New Year? New Goals! …
To be honest, when it comes to going undercover for our corporate and commercial espionage cases around Newcastle and Tyne and Wear we’ve thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity it has granted us to go and (in one case) get a hair cut, (in another) have a meal out or (with most) get tours of businesses and premises we would never normally get to see the inside of.
With our latest one though, we had to strap on the ol’ spandex and sweatband and go do high intensity workouts. For an hour. Five times in a week. Physically, it may not have been a pretty sight but the results we achieved definitely were. Read more about Let’s Get Physical – A ‘Commercial Espionage’ Case Study. …
Probably one of the biggest misconceptions about the world of “investigation” is the whole thing of there always being that ‘smoking gun’ that the investigator finds right there at the scene, just being dropped at that exact moment by the guilty party… Job’s a good ‘un – we’re all heading home for an early finish on a Friday afternoon!
The reality is decidedly less glamorous and actually much more arduous. Take a recent case we worked on in the matter of a high value insurance fraud. Read more about Effective Insurance Fraud Investigations …
We now offer comprehensive pre-repossession reports to solicitors and lenders throughout the North-East.
Pre-repossession reports (also known as ‘pre-eviction reports’ or ‘address intelligence reports [AIRs]’) are an excellent and invaluable means for repossessions and evictions to go as smoothly as possible without any sudden or ‘surprise’ elements of intelligence rearing their heads, resulting in the process being derailed and thus requiring rescheduling. Read more about Pre-Repossession Reports …
As we draw near to the close of our first year being fully operational, we wanted to take a quick second to look back on what we’ve achieved as a security consultant and private investigator in Newcastle.
We came out of the gate into this specific area of business, knowing that the private investigation trade had a terrible reputation (done no particular favours by how it’s presented in television and film, no less) but we knew we had a certain ethic and specific skill-set to separate ourselves from the ‘gumtree gumshoes’ out there and to make a real difference.
So we set a few goals to focus ourselves: Read more about Private Investigator, Newcastle smashes first year! …
A recent article in The Guardian by Helen Pidd exposed that Newcastle City Council had once again committed an extremely serious and worrying breach of confidential data. This was only months after their shameful leaking of highly confidential adoption data that they are currently under investigation by the ICO for.
We’re using this week’s blog post to speak specifically about our own experiences with Newcastle City Council and the concerns we’ve repeatedly raised about their data protection processes and their cavalier attitude towards confidentiality.
We’ve hoped for a long time that a sea-change would come with regards to Newcastle City Council. Now we are simply demanding that they are stripped of their right to handle confidential data in line with ICO requirements and must rebuild from the ground up as a local authority with extreme and robust external parties in place to govern them in the meantime. Read more about Newcastle City Council: Newcastle’s Biggest Threat …