HOW TO COMBAT HARASSMENT: SURMOUNT’S STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

HOW TO COMBAT HARASSMENT: SURMOUNT’S STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

More and more individuals around Newcastle and Tyne and Wear are coming to professional private investigation companies such as ours to help them try to evidence and deal with harassment as a civil matter in order to bring about an end to the distress it is causing in their lives.

This is because incidents of harassment, more so in the age of growing social media platforms, are increasing and police services are now de-prioritising dealing with it due to an ongoing staffing and funding crisis.

So by request, we’re republishing our step-by-step guide as to how to most effectively deal with any harassment you are victim of and to best engage us for service in order to put an end to the nightmare once and for all: Read more about HOW TO COMBAT HARASSMENT: SURMOUNT’S STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

DO YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES?

DO YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES?

We met our Newcastle-based client as part of the free consultation service we offer to everyone. They explained that they felt they were being defrauded by 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 ‘Keith’) was in the process of taking legal action against their employer and claimed that they could no longer walk around without sticks for support. Read more about DO YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES?

THE BENEFITS OF PRE-REPOSSESSION REPORTS

THE BENEFITS OF PRE-REPOSSESSION REPORTS

property for letComprehensive pre-repossession reports is something that we offer throughout the North East of England to a wide variety of representatives of creditors, mortgage companies, solicitors and lenders to name but a few.

Pre-repossession reports 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. In some circles they are also known as ‘pre-eviction reports’ or ‘address intelligence reports [AIRs]’. Read more about THE BENEFITS OF PRE-REPOSSESSION REPORTS

INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS

INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS

surveillance photographerProbably 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 case we worked on in the matter of a high value insurance fraud: Read more about INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS

EMPLOYEE CONCERNS – A Case Study.

EMPLOYEE CONCERNS – A Case Study.

A client contacted us after seeing one of our Facebook posts. She had started up her own fitness studio in Newcastle and offered bespoke exercise classes, nutrition plans and physiotherapy support to her clients.

Of late she had been hearing that one of her staff had been taking her session plans and using them whilst out working for themselves “on the QT” and, worst of all, that they’d been approaching clients at the end of sessions and actively tried to ‘poach them’ to leave our client and come work-out with them at a local gym instead. Read more about EMPLOYEE CONCERNS – A Case Study.

“LONG TERM SICKNESS” – A GOOD INVESTIGATORY STANCE TO TAKE.

“LONG TERM SICKNESS” – A GOOD INVESTIGATORY STANCE TO TAKE.

surveillance photographerAs a result of a lot of negative feedback online to a rather disreputable ‘investigation consultancy’ company and comments / posts that they made on the topic of investigating “long term sickness”, Surmount stepped into the ring, so to speak, on what proved to be a particularly contentious topic and show you where we stand and why we think it’s important others come to share the same stance.

We do a lot of work around employee concerns for companies throughout Newcastle and the whole of the North East. In an investigatory capacity, it is probably the most requested service we book work for. We do a lot of it. We’re good at it and that’s why we have a lot of businesses around the region recommend us to others who are in a position where they have concerns that they may be getting defrauded by an employee who is being less than honest. Read more about “LONG TERM SICKNESS” – A GOOD INVESTIGATORY STANCE TO TAKE.

BREAKING DOWN THE MYTHS OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATION.

BREAKING DOWN THE MYTHS OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATION.

TV and film will always present private investigation as being headed up by a dysfunctional but brilliant PI with “issues” and the stereotypical trench-coat, dirty office and glass door with their name etched on it… doing whatever it takes to secure the leads needed to ‘break the case wide open’, etc. They’re breaking into places and stealing evidence whenever the need or the plot requires it.

It’s decidedly ‘un-entertaining’ to reveal this but Surmount Investigations’ jobs (and the investigatory profession overall) is a lot less ‘easy’ and exciting.
Read more about BREAKING DOWN THE MYTHS OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATION.

CHEATING PARTNERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF GATHERING ALL THE FACTS.

CHEATING PARTNERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF GATHERING ALL THE FACTS.

We understand that – 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.

But it’s always important to get those suspicions checked because the signs you’re seeing may not be an indication of what you think is truly going on in your relationship. Read more about CHEATING PARTNERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF GATHERING ALL THE FACTS.