A tracing service run by a professional investigator.
Trace Bureau was founded by Kris Koos, a working UK investigator with ten years in private investigation, who has spent them locating people for solicitors, creditors, landlords and executors, and who was tired of watching firms pay hundreds of pounds for an address in an email with no date, no confidence rating and no accountability. Trace Bureau is the fix: one price, charged only on a find, and a report you can rely on. It is the same service as instructing a private investigator, because a private investigator runs it, delivered online without the hourly rate, the retainer or the wait.
How we work
Every instruction is read by a private investigator before any work starts. We record the lawful basis, decline anything that does not have one, and then trace: more than 150 sources, registers and records, cross-referenced against each other rather than trusting a single database. A private investigator builds the picture, verifies the address and signs it off. You receive a dated PDF report stating the address at which the person is currently registered, with a confidence rating that tells you how strong the evidence is.
What we will not do
- Name our sources or explain our method. A good locksmith does not either.
- Take money before there is a result. Your card is saved at instruction and charged only when we deliver a current registered address.
- Trace anyone for a personal reason without their consent, or for anything that looks like harassment.
- Collect debts, conduct surveillance, or pretend a Possible result is a confirmed one.
Who is behind it
Trace Bureau is the trading name of a limited company registered in England and Wales and registered with the Information Commissioner's Office; the registered details are on the company details page. It is run by its founder, Kris Koos, a professional investigator with ten years in UK private investigation who has founded and run two investigation companies and, before that, led the investigations of one of London's largest private investigation firms from the age of 22. The software is built in-house so that instructing, tracking, reporting and invoicing are as careful as the tracing itself.
Prices, plainly
Standard £150 in 3 to 5 working days. Priority £200 in 2 to 3 working days. A 24-hour service at £250 is currently unavailable, so Priority is the fastest on offer. Firms instructing ten or more a month pay £120 on a monthly invoice. Nothing is charged for a no-find. Full pricing.
Ready when you are.
Five minutes to instruct. Nothing charged until we find them.