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This is a little bit of an ‘oldie’ (it’s from 2014) but it’s still a good point of reference that we use with a lot of potential clients when discussing covert surveillance operations, especially relating to concerns they have with their staff.

The first thing the client always raises is the belief that they are not allowed to arrange such surveillance because it will result in the employee taking legal action against them. It isn’t as clear cut as that and this blog post we’re highlighting this week does a great job of explaining why. Read more about It’s Important To Know Surveillance Legalities When Putting It To Use …

Recently we worked with a solicitor who required evidence of someone repeatedly flouting geographically restrictive bail conditions. The person in question was not allowed to enter a specific postal code area or go near a witness’ place of work.

We received a phone call late at night, bringing our attention to a series of Facebook posts from the ‘target’ in which he bragged to his friends online that he was going to do a “walk past” the witness’ place of work to “scare her” and to prove that he was not “going to back down”. Read more about Case Study: Thinking About Breaking Your Bail Conditions? Don’t! …

Below is an interesting article regarding staff honesty, ‘time theft’ and the impact they can have on you as an employer and the organisation you run.

Surmount Investigations offers a HUGE amount of investigatory and security consultancy support to you as an employer – CV and background checks, undercover work, surveillance, covert recording, disciplinary support. But it is imperative that any and all is done in line with Employment Law and your requirements to the ICO.

Your only true guarantee that you’re going to get that is by working with a trained, qualified investigator who is a committed member of the ABI.  Read more about ‘Time Theft’! Yes – It IS An All Too Real Thing …

Pick something – An extremely valuable piece of jewellery that needs to go into a family security box? An important original piece of paperwork that needs signed by another party but if lost would be irreplaceable or badly shake the foundations of a pending business deal? An actual person that needs to get between two locations but you’re worried that they could be at risk of attack, kidnap or much worse. Read more about We’re Like ‘The Transporter’ – Only We Want To Know What’s In The Package! …

Surmount Investigations has been asked a few times whether we work with or would recommend the services of National Networked Investigations.

To be clear, National Networked Investigations is a scam that involves ‘licensing’ “20 cases a week” to investigators in return for £50 commission per case – once you’ve paid hundreds of pounds to cover ‘half’ of your online training to become an investigator! Once they’ve got your money, they kill contact with you and leave you high and dry with no work.

On the flip side, they induce large ‘deposits’ from their client base for a variety of cases and then do not deliver on any follow-up work. Read more about Warning: ‘National Networked Investigations’ …

Whether it be through texts or emails you’ve seen that raise a red flag, being told something by someone you trust or experiencing a change in their behaviour that doesn’t quite make sense, believing a partner to be cheating on you can be incredibly upsetting and getting proof is often not easy.

On one case we dealt with, a woman instructed us to follow her soon-to-be-husband every Tuesday and Thursday. The information we were given was that he was claiming to be working late on those nights every week but when she’d called up to speak to him he wasn’t there, he was coming home smelling of perfume, constantly tired and she felt “100%” that he was “sowing his wild oats” before their wedding later that year. She was determined to leave him but wanted concrete proof of his ‘misdeeds’… Read more about Is Your Partner Cheating On You? …