Eastern Region Investigations provides professional people tracing and address tracing services throughout the UK.
Our remote tracing service can assist solicitors, businesses, landlords and private clients with locating individuals where there is a legitimate reason to do so.
What is Tracing?
People tracing is the process of locating an individual's current or recent whereabouts using lawful investigative research, intelligence gathering and appropriate verification methods.
Eastern Region Investigations provides professional people tracing and address tracing services throughout the UK, assisting solicitors, businesses, landlords, property professionals and private clients where an individual needs to be located for a legitimate legal, financial, property or personal matter.
People can become difficult to locate for many reasons. An individual may have moved without providing a forwarding address, changed their contact details, stopped responding to correspondence or become disconnected from previously known information.
Our people tracing service combines the information already available about an individual with appropriate investigative research and verification enquiries. This can help establish reliable information concerning a person's current or recent address and whereabouts.
Where possible, information identified during a tracing enquiry is assessed and verified before findings are reported. The information available and the circumstances of each enquiry will determine what can be established.
Tracing Enquiry Services
Debtor Tracing
Locating individuals who have become difficult to contact in connection with legitimate financial or commercial matters.
This may include tracing former customers, clients or other individuals where outstanding financial obligations or a commercial matter requires contact to be re-established.
Information identified during an enquiry can help establish potential current or recent contact details or whereabouts.
Beneficiary Tracing
Assisting with locating beneficiaries or other individuals connected with estates, probate and inheritance matters.
Beneficiaries may have moved, changed their name or become difficult to contact over time.
A professional tracing enquiry can help establish reliable information that may assist solicitors, executors and other authorised parties in making contact.
Former Tenant Tracing
Helping landlords and property professionals locate former tenants who have left a property without providing reliable forwarding information.
Tracing may be appropriate where there are outstanding tenancy, property or financial matters requiring contact with the former tenant and their current or recent whereabouts need to be established.
Witness Tracing
Assisting solicitors and other authorised parties with locating potential witnesses who may be relevant to legal or civil proceedings.
Witnesses can become difficult to locate when they have moved address or changed their contact details.
A tracing enquiry may help establish current or recent information so that appropriate contact can be considered.
Family and Personal Tracing
Assisting private clients seeking to locate relatives, friends or other individuals where there is a legitimate and appropriate reason for the enquiry.
People can lose contact over many years due to changes in address, employment or personal circumstances.
Each personal tracing enquiry is considered individually, taking account of the purpose of the enquiry and the information available.
Address Verification
Assessing available information to establish whether an address appears to be associated with an individual.
Address verification can be particularly useful where an address has been provided but its accuracy or relevance needs to be assessed before further action is taken.
Where possible, information is considered alongside other available evidence rather than relying on a single source.
Reports and Findings
Where a tracing enquiry is successful, the findings may include information relevant to establishing an individual's current or recent whereabouts.
Depending on the circumstances and information available, this may include:
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Current or recent address information
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Occupancy indicators associated with an identified address
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Linked address history and connections between previous and current addresses
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Relevant contact or identifying information
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Supporting open-source intelligence (OSINT)
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Information supporting the verification of an identified individual or address
The information available will vary depending on the circumstances of each enquiry. We do not present unverified information as fact, and findings are assessed in context wherever possible.
Professional Trace Reports
Where a report is commissioned, findings are compiled clearly, concisely and professionally, setting out the relevant information identified during the enquiry.
Reports can be prepared to support legal, civil, financial, property and private matters, subject to the purpose and scope of the instruction.
A successful trace does not necessarily mean that every requested piece of information can be established. The extent of the findings will depend on the information available and what can be lawfully identified and verified during the enquiry.
Where we operate
Unlike our field-based services, our tracing service can be conducted remotely, allowing us to undertake enquiries throughout the UK.
We can assist with tracing individuals regardless of whether they are located in Suffolk, London, Manchester, Scotland or elsewhere in the UK, subject to the circumstances and legitimacy of the instruction.
This makes the service suitable for clients who need to locate an individual but are not able to establish their current address or whereabouts themselves.