Bristol Private Investigators

Investigations

We provide professional private investigation services across Avon & Somerset, combining surveillance, GPS vehicle tracking, verification, and background check intelligence to uncover the facts. Every instruction is handled with strict confidentiality and conducted within legal boundaries, ensuring all findings are reliable and usable.

Uncertainty, suspicion, or lack of clear evidence can create emotional stress and prevent you from making informed decisions. Our investigations are designed to establish the truth through discreet, intelligence-led methods, giving you clarity and control over your situation.

Investigation we provide:

Covert surveillance – to discreetly establish the truth in sensitive family matters such as suspected infidelity, child welfare concerns, or verifying a partner’s lifestyle and associations.

Address and information verification – to confirm where an individual is living, validate who is residing at a property, or ensure accurate details in matters involving child arrangements or family disputes.

Background checks – to assess a new partner, carer, or individual involved with your family to ensure they have no concerning history that could pose a risk.

GPS vehicle tracking – to monitor vehicle use in family situations, such as ensuring a child is being transported safely or verifying a partner's movements where concerns around honesty or safeguarding exist.

All findings are carefully documented and assessed before reporting, ensuring you receive clear, factual intelligence you can act on with confidence.

People Tracing

We deliver professional people tracing services, helping private clients locate individuals through a structured and confidential process. Each case is handled with sensitivity, particularly where personal or emotional circumstances are involved.

Losing contact with someone—whether a family member, former partner, or debtor—can create uncertainty, stress, and unresolved matters. Our tracing approach focuses on identifying and verifying current locations, enabling you to move forward with clarity and peace of mind.

✓ Trace family members, partners, or debtors
✓ UK-wide tracing with verified results
✓ Confidential and sensitive approach
✓ Fast and reliable outcomes

Where appropriate, results can support reconnection, legal action, or personal closure, depending on your circumstances.

All services are carried out in full compliance with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and UK GDPR, ensuring that personal data is handled lawfully, securely, and with respect for the rights of all individuals involved.

Data protection law requires that personal information is processed fairly, lawfully, and transparently. In cases involving family tracing or reconnection, releasing someone’s location without their awareness may interfere with their legal rights or conflict with protective measures such as non-molestation orders or other court-imposed restrictions.

To meet our legal and ethical safeguarding responsibilities, we operate a consent-based disclosure process. While we may successfully locate an individual, their personal contact details will only be shared with you if they provide clear and informed consent.

By instructing us to carry out a family trace, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

Lawful Basis Assessment
We will only proceed where a legitimate and lawful reason exists. Should our enquiries identify any legal barrier—such as a court order or restriction preventing contact—we will cease work immediately.

Reconnection Procedure
Once the individual has been located, we will make contact to notify them of your request. This step ensures compliance with our obligation to inform individuals that their data is being processed.

Consent Requirement
We will ask the individual whether they are willing to have their details shared. If consent is not granted, we are legally unable to disclose their address or contact information. In such circumstances, we may, at our discretion, offer to forward a message on your behalf.

Legal Disclosure Obligations
If, during the course of our work, we identify a potential breach of a legal order or safeguarding concern, we reserve the right to report this to the appropriate authority or court where permitted or required by law.

Fees and Payment Terms
Our fees reflect the professional time, investigative resources, and safeguarding procedures involved. These fees remain payable regardless of the outcome, including where consent for disclosure is not provided. Full payment is required before any approach is made to the located individual.

Discreet. Professional. Results-focused.

Helping private clients across Avon & Somerset to uncover the truth and make informed decisions.