HCEO
Police liaison
A written request to the police, on HCEO LTD letterhead, in the form an investigator recognises, addressed to the right desk.
The police will not investigate a fraud, or will not attend to trespassers, or on an eviction day the officer on the phone says it is civil and puts the phone down. Businesses, landlords and enforcement firms all hit this, and the usual response is to call again and get the same answer.
I write the request on your instruction: which duty applies, which power, which protocol, why the matter is not a civil one, and what is being asked for, addressed to the right desk. It goes on HCEO LTD letterhead, copied to you, signed as an authorised officer and a former Hampshire investigator. I know what a report has to contain to be actionable and what gets one filed, because I spent six years on the other side of that counter.
I cannot promise that the police will attend or act, but the request will be one they have to read properly.
Investigations
- Theft or fraud inside a business
Stock, cash, a supplier nobody has met, a bookkeeper who never takes a holiday. I find out what has gone and who knew before anyone is tipped off.
- A partner or a director gone
Fallen out, fallen ill, or died, and the business still has to trade. I carry it through the weeks that matter on the directors' instructions.
- Checking who you are dealing with
A partner, a buyer, a supplier or a senior hire. The public record checked against the story, and a short note on what I would ask.
- The police have said it is a civil matter
You reported it and got a crime number, or nothing at all. I write the file the police did not, so that it can go back to them or on to a solicitor.