Five Decades Experience Finding Missing Persons
Research Associates was established in 1977 as a specialist detective agency to find missing persons. Over the last fifty years, we have evolved into an approachable, highly professional and multi-faceted agency with an unparalleled reputation.
Finding missing persons is an exacting art, requiring sensitivity, extensive knowledge of open-source intelligence, fieldwork, legal acquisition of private information, and other more traditional tracing techniques. Research Associates’ experience and wealth of industry knowledge guarantee unrivalled customer service and value for money.
Types of Missing Persons Investigations
The following are some of the more commonplace missing persons investigations carried out by Research Associates:
- Missing or lost family members and long-lost friends
- Former partners to re-establish contact
- Fostered children’s birth parents or siblings
- Parents in arrears with child maintenance
- Beneficiaries of a will, inheritance, gift or prize
- Debtors, including people who may be actively avoiding being located (see Debtor Tracing)
- Persons required for legal purposes (see Process Serving)
How we operate
Research Associates’ specialised service locates, with confirmed current whereabouts, missing persons throughout the UK and internationally. We routinely find partners, children, family and friends, as well as debtors (please refer to our Debtors Tracing section. All our findings are substantiated.
Where required, we can also provide vital background information including place of employment, telephone numbers, email addresses, social media and other contact details, along with specific intelligence according to the client’s instructions, in a written legal report.
With our decades of experience and wide-ranging resources, Research Associates is confident in its ability to find missing persons or those who are actively avoiding being traced.
How long does it take? What does it cost?
The depth of service and cost will reflect individual requirements specific to each case. Following a detailed briefing, Research Associates will compile a plan of action and budget for the client’s consideration.
By maintaining strict confidentiality, the subject remains unaware of our enquiries, which we conduct with utmost professionalism, sensitivity and discretion. As with all our cases, the client is kept fully informed throughout the investigation.
Schedule a Consultation
Every investigation is necessarily unique and customised because of the delicate nature of our work. We encourage prospective clients to call us to outline, in strict confidence, the circumstances of the case. This will allow our highly experienced team to create a detailed plan of action, clearly budgeted, with a turnaround time, for the client’s consideration.
Call Now to Talk Through your Situation
Whether you require discreet surveillance, background checks, blackmail investigations, or corporate intelligence, our experienced investigators are here to assist.
