Skip Tracing Services Explained

We are often asked about our Skip Tracing Services and even though it is an important part of our business, there are still a lot of organizations that don't fully understand what Skip Tracing fully entails.



Skip Tracing Find Missing Individuals

Skip Tracing may sound like a spy technique out of a James Bond movie, but it actually has several practical daily applications for business and organizations of all sizes.

Anyone from lawyers to debt collectors, small businesses to private investigators, large corporations to educational institutions may employ Skip Tracing to find an individual's current whereabouts, track someone's activities, or find missing assets.

Lawyers can seek out Skip Tracing to find witnesses, or to communicate with heirs to an estate. 

Third party debt collectors or an in-house collections department use the data to track down delinquent borrowers or customers. 

While securing records forms a core part of the search for an individual, this activity is not the beginning and end of the Skip Tracing process. 

The real art of Skip Tracing entails using up-to-the-minute data from multiple reliable sources.

To be successful, it’s imperative to gather information from multiple data sources, cross-reference the information to ensure its veracity, analyze the data and distill the records into the most essential information.

 

The tools of the trade employed for effective Skip Tracing include:

•  Databases of addresses and phone numbers
•  Applications for credit cards, loans and jobs
•  Legal records
•  Criminal records
•  Tax information
•  Bills for utilities
•  Payroll information
•  Driver's license applications and renewals
•  Vehicle registrations
•  Traffic tickets

 

Skip Tracing entails utilizing this data to create a profile of the individual being traced.  For this reason, you should access multiple records from verified resources and, when necessary, fact-check information by conducting in-person interviews or by contacting related parties.

Challenges can arise when less reliable sources or conflicting information confuses the search. 

Professional Skip Tracers like us The Renwick Group understand that accuracy, sophisticated computer retrieval techniques and access to proprietary information delivers top results. 

Tapping into this database of information can be as simple as finding the right data supplier for accurate Skip Tracing and people search data. 

If you are in a position where you are evaluating businesses that supply Skip Tracing services, we recommend looking for a company that aggregates data from several informational streams, producing quality results in a short time frame.

Conducting effective Skip Tracing searches is challenging and does require expert knowledge and understanding of the data and therefore the more professional the organization you are dealing with the better the results you will get.

The Renwick Group - www.therenwickgroup.ca - 1 (888) 722-9807  - is a private investigation firm founded in 1997 and is based in Barrie, Ontario, covering Toronto and South Central Ontario. We excel in delivering our core Private Investigation Services in the most efficient, secure, and professional manner.​