As the original director of the company I will be moving on to pastures new to work within the police service effective 20th April 2020 and I want to take a quick second to thank all of you who have used and supported my company over the years – and essentially made it what it […]
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Litigation / Criminal Defence & Solicitor Support Services
Surmount Investigations provide a dependable, legally sound and efficient Process Serving...
Locus Reports, RTA investigations & Insurer Support
Surmount Investigations has its own strand of Insurance Agency Support Services...
Cheating Partner Investigations & Infidelity Intelligence
Through our Infidelity Intelligence-Gathering service, we offer extremely discreet service...
Missing Person / Person Location Investigations
Whether it be a loved one you’ve lost touch with or someone needing traced because of debt...
GPS Tracking / Covert and Overt Surveillance
Our tracking and surveillance packages are 100% adaptable to suit your needs and budget...
Witness Interviewing / Statement Taking
Whether it is for the purposes of an insurance investigation, an internal organisational matter...
Security Vulnerability Assessments
If you’re a business owner with premises and staff, no matter the field, then our Security Consultancy service is for you...
Loss Prevention Assessment
We offer services to businesses of all sizes who hold stock on premises to best protect themselves from theft or internal...
Harassment & Distress Support
It doesn’t matter whether it’s from an ex-partner who won’t take that it’s over or the so-called affections of someone you are not interested...
Asset Protection Services
Surmount Investigations offers a discreet, highly secure, extremely professional service that will...
Pre-repossession reports
Pre-repossession reports (also known as ‘pre-eviction reports’ or ‘address intelligence reports [AIRs]’) are an excellent...
Employee Concerns
If you are an employer it is imperative that you have trust in your staff not behaving in a way that is adversative to your company’s ethics, its reputation or its profits/security...
Landlord & Letting Support Services
We offer a comprehensive array of support services to landlords, letting agents and property management companies ...
Anti Social Behaviour Support Services
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Jan, 20
Employee Concerns: A Case Study
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 […]
Read more Employee Concerns: A Case Study - Jan, 6
TRACE ENQUIRIES – A CLOSER LOOK
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 […]
Read more TRACE ENQUIRIES – A CLOSER LOOKDec, 16INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT SICKNESS
It is important for us within our line of work – when investigating issues surrounding employee absence and staff sickness around Newcastle and the whole of the North East – to be very clear about where we stand as a company professionally, ethically and legally in the face of ‘cowboys’ offering to “deal with” those “staff members off sick that […]
Read more INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT SICKNESS - Nov, 18
ACTING LAWFULLY IN PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS
The media and pop culture in general play up the archetype of our profession as being the type that skulks in the shadows, doing all sorts of illegalities in order to acquire evidence against someone or some company. It really isn’t like that at all. We continually promote ourselves to law firms, insurers, businesses and private […]
Read more ACTING LAWFULLY IN PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONSOct, 6Investigating Concerns In The #MeToo / #TimesUp Era
In our field of work we take formal victim and witness statements to a high evidential standard for a wealth of different reasons – sometimes they relate to internal employee investigations, sometimes they are to do with road traffic collisions to name but two. On this particular investigation we were brought in by a high […]
Read more Investigating Concerns In The #MeToo / #TimesUp Era - Sep, 20
Top Five Reasons Solicitors Use Surmount Investigations
We are proud to have grown into what is one of the most highly regarded litigation support services throughout the North East and we continue to be the preferred choice of some of the region’s most prestigious law firms for supporting their solicitors with cases. In a competitive market place, we ensure that we deliver […]
Read more Top Five Reasons Solicitors Use Surmount InvestigationsAug, 25When The Client Is Wrong And The ‘Bad’ Guy Is Good: A Case Study
A lot of companies in our field – heck, a lot of companies full stop – use the ‘case studies’ space on their professional blog to tell big, detailed stories about how they achieved a fantastic result for their client, confirmed all their worst suspicions and caught the ‘bad buy’ or whatever. God knows, there’s […]
Read more When The Client Is Wrong And The ‘Bad’ Guy Is Good: A Case Study - Jul, 22
Guidance Around Covert Recordings In The Work Place.
We are asked frequently – especially within the realms of the commercial investigations we complete against rogue employees – about recording people covertly. We are always keen to encourage employers and employees alike to err on the side of extreme caution around this. For an employer to do so it would be a misstep that […]
Read more Guidance Around Covert Recordings In The Work Place.Jul, 8How To Achieve A Higher Standard In Statement Taking
We’re going to repost our guidance around statement-taking again on the blog this month because once more we’re left completely aghast at the standard of evidence-capturing through statements and interviews that we’re experiencing and having to redo on behalf of our solicitor clients or commercial clients. In most of the incidents we’ve been called in […]
Read more How To Achieve A Higher Standard In Statement Taking