NSW Covert Investigations specialise in finding, locating, and confirming various details about person of interest in Sydney, New South Wales and Australia Wide.
Clients employ NSW Covert’s expert person location services for a many different reasons. NSW Covert always operates within legal boundaries set by state and federal government. Many of our investigations are undertaken on behalf of law firms and insurance companies.
NSW Covert has a proven record of successfully tracing the whereabouts of:
- Businessmen
- Fly by night companies
- Witnesses to crime
- Bad debtors
- Individuals who have fled personal responsibilities
- Missing persons
- abductees

Skip tracing
Skip tracing is the industry term for the search for a missing person. The name derives from the act of “skipping town”, the missing person is referred to as the “skip” who is being “traced”.
Types of missing persons cases include:
- Debtors
- Previous Partners
- Witnesses
- Insurance Policy holders
- Clients
- Loan Defaulters
- Spouses, Children, Relatives, Friends, and Lost or Former Lovers
- missing persons investigations
- person search investigations
Our Services
All Missing Person and Skip Trace Investigations are conducted by experienced Private Investigators and researchers. We have more than 15+ years experience in the Investigations industry and are committed to providing you with outstanding, unsurpassed professional services, working within realistic budgets and time frames that you control.
Our agency is centrally located in Sydney, New South Wales where we represent firms that conduct legal work for insurance companies, the self-insurers and commercial businesses throughout Australia. The majority of our investigative work spans from Adelaide in the south to Cairns in the north covering all major cities, regional and rural areas.

Methods
To perform an effective missing persons search the first step is to collect as much information as possible about the subject. The information is then analyzed, reduced, and verified. Information that may be useful in our search:
- Full names, including middle name
- Last known address
- Last known phone numbers and email addresses
- Date of birth
- Last known place of work
- Any friends or relatives contact details
- Social network addresses, such as Facebook
- Any current or previous business details, such as ABN’s
- Passport or drivers licence numbers
- Any previous addresses or phone numbers, regardless of age