WHY EXCELLENT LOCUS REPORTING IS IMPORTANT

WHY EXCELLENT LOCUS REPORTING IS IMPORTANT

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. Read more about WHY EXCELLENT LOCUS REPORTING IS IMPORTANT

DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY

DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY

Surmount Investigations complete extensive due diligence checks before taking on any operation for any of our services so that we have the certainty and confidence that you are exactly who you say you are and that your request for us to complete an investigation and/or surveillance has a lawful basis or a legitimate purpose.

Where possible we will always endeavour to try and meet with a prospective client face-to-face as part of our free consultation service. If this is not possible we will ask for some photographic ID to be provided to us so we have confirmation of who we are dealing with along with why. Read more about DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY

CRIMINAL DEFENCE INVESTIGATIONS

CRIMINAL DEFENCE INVESTIGATIONS

As part of the extensive solicitor/litigation support services Surmount offer, we provide comprehensive criminal defence investigatory support to people through Newcastle, Tyne and Wear and the whole of the North East region who have been accused of a crime they believe themselves to be innocent of and need evidence gathered ahead of an impending court date.

Our investigatory support is completely bespoke to the needs of the client and their legal representative(s) and covers all criminal charges from minor offences through to murder trials. Read more about CRIMINAL DEFENCE INVESTIGATIONS

EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING

EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING

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.

Our background in policing and justice studies along with years of experience in interviewing and compiling statements for civil and criminal court puts us confidently in the position of knowing what is required to make the statement and the time it took to record worth its existence… Read more about EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING

TRACING SERVICES – FINDING A MISSING PERSON

TRACING SERVICES – FINDING A MISSING PERSON

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.

We offer two types of tracing service: Electronic and Agent-Led. An agent-led trace is more extensive than the electronic trace we carry out, although the latter IS the most common we’re asked to do. Read more about TRACING SERVICES – FINDING A MISSING PERSON

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

“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.