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Sep
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.
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It’s all too often down-played by employees around the world when entering into a ‘them versus us’ type battle but it’s extremely important to remember that ‘time theft’ by an employee is all too real.
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.
‘Bail Affirmations’ are a service we provide to solicitors and law firms frequently. We have assisted the CPS, the police and private clients with gathering evidence to confirm whether those awaiting trial pertaining to criminal matters are breaching the bail restrictions conditional to their release.
Regular readers of the Surmount blog will recall 
Our Newcastle based Landlord client had a property portfolio that included a number of varying-sized residential properties throughout the region along with some commercial units. At one of his fully furnished residential properties he was reaching the end of his tether with his tenant, a female in her late twenties that we’ll call ‘Carol’.
We receive many, many enquiries a week from people looking to trace individuals for a multitude of reasons and we have an incredibly high standard as to whether we take the case on or not.
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 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.
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.