As one of the UK’s Premier Investigation Companies, ID has its Headquarters in prestigious new offices in Glasgow, while their professional teams operate throughout the UK based out of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Belfast.  

ID has an enviable blue chip client list including some of the world’s leading Insurance Companies, Media Broadcasters and Corporate Bodies, along with many of the UK’s premier Solicitors and prominent Local Authorities.

ID is driven by quality and achieves outstanding results by always employing top-quality staff to guarantee integrity, together with using robust, quality process-driven systems.

Corporate Services

ID offers solutions through the use of conventional enquiries, observations, surveillance, computer forensic services and asset tracing services.    ID’s Special Operations Unit devises bespoke responses when conventional investigations are inappropriate. The department creates a unique strategy to deliver results using a variety of techniques which can include physical or technical surveillance and undercover placement.

The ID Corporate Team is staffed by hand-picked personnel who have a proven track record of delivering special operations at the highest level in the police and military services around the world. ID successfully harnesses these uniquely-experienced and highly-skilled staff to solve complex corporate problems. ID’s  teams of investigators bring their long experience and deep knowledge to our conventional enquiries having worked on complex cases which include international fraud and high-profile serious and organised crime.

ID have a proven track of creating strategies to solve corporate issues by identifying areas of vulnerability and attacking and neutralising problems. Once a strategy is agreed with a client,  a Strategy Group is formed,  made up of experts and representatives of the client. Every operation is monitored by this group and no changes are made without agreement from all sides.

Once a desired outcome is delivered, ID also provides advice on adjustments to systems and procedures to prevent a problem from recurring. ID also brings “added value” by identifying issues of which the client was unaware. These issues often cause unnecessary expenditure or losses or can leave clients vulnerable from bad working practices. This “added value” often generates savings that more than cover the cost of implementing the whole of the strategy.

Brand Protection

ID offers a wide range of Brand Protection and Intellectual Property services dealing with Copyright and Trade Mark Law issues. ID’s client list includes leading national broadcasting companies, the film and music industries, top sporting bodies as well as software writers.

ID provide services for both Civil Litigation and Criminal Prosecution through well-established links with specialist Intellectual Property (IP) solicitors, enforcement agencies and specialist prosecutors.

RIPA/RIP(S)A

ID undertake a large amount of surveillance work for the insurance industry, as well as public sector and corporate HR departments. All Public Authority surveillance is required to comply with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) or the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act (RIP(S)A).  ID can also assist public departments strategically with (RIPA) or (RIP(S)A) procedures.  ID offer a CPD compliant seminar service, which Solicitors may feel useful in advancing their professional standards.  The Seminar lasts no more than one hour and is very useful in giving a definitive understanding of RIPA and RIP(S)A whilst an open question and answer session provides an opportunity to gain an insight into the use and appropriateness of the latest corporate investigative techniques.   ID look upon RIPA or RIP(S)A as a tool, allowing the client to take the positive, legal steps towards solving challenging problems rather than a barrier to progress. 

For reasons of integrity ID only takes surveillance instructions from corporate bodies or solicitors.