Mantrailing | Missing Persons | Missing Property (Theft) | Child Recovery

Kurtz Detective Agency Essen investigates cases involving missing persons: runaway children, missing heirs (heir tracing), and relatives who have lost contact. The more information you are able to provide, the greater our chances of success. Seek advice from our detectives: +49 201 3840 9057.

Fraud in E-Commerce – Essen a Leading City in Online Trade

As a digital city, Essen naturally also plays a significant role in the still relatively young sector of online commerce. The long-established Essen-based companies Deichmann and Karstadt assume a pioneering role in internet-based retail distribution. According to various studies, website loading times play a crucial role in the success of businesses operating in electronic commerce. The City of Essen has laid the foundation for this through the comprehensive expansion of the VDSL network, which has led many information technology and e-business companies to establish themselves in the Ruhr metropolis. Consequently, the range of online services offered by providers from Essen is extensive.

 

However, fraudulent activities repeatedly occur in this sector. This may involve classified advertisement fraud committed by private individuals, but commercial and organised fraud schemes are likewise not uncommon. Many offenders base themselves in the Ruhr region and from there defraud unsuspecting buyers of their money. The private investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency Essen are familiar with these issues and are therefore able to take effective action against online fraudsters.

Number of Residential Burglaries Continues to Rise

In 2014, 2,471 residential burglaries were officially recorded by the police in Essen, of which only 277 were solved. Each of these offences caused average damages amounting to €4,663. Forty-two per cent of suspects were non-German nationals. These figures illustrate the importance of detectives’ work in supporting authorities in the investigation of property offences. The same applies to theft without forced entry and to various other types of property crime, particularly fraud offences.

 

By employing various criminal investigation methods, our Essen detectives are frequently able to reconstruct the course of events, trace offenders and recover missing property: +49 201 3840 9057.

Missing Persons in Essen – People Tracing by Detective Agency Essen

Missing person cases are by no means rare. In 2014 alone, 1,238 cases were registered in Essen; almost exactly half of the missing persons were minors (660). A method of criminal investigation known for centuries is the deployment of tracking dogs. Even Sherlock Holmes relied on the services of his mongrel Toby.

 

As an investigative tool, tracking dogs have somewhat fallen out of fashion in recent decades. Their areas of deployment were largely “limited” to rescue operations. However, so-called mantrailing – the search for individuals using specialised scent-tracking dogs – opens up new and at times spectacular possibilities for criminal investigations. Mantrailer dogs are capable of detecting the scent molecules individually emitted by every human being from scent articles and of following a scent trail over considerable distances and periods of time (odourology).

 

The capabilities of mantrailers vary significantly depending on breed and training. There are reports of mantrailers reliably following trails even years later – including across motorways and even through rivers. When assessing the performance of mantrailers, however, police authorities tend to provide far more conservative estimates, often speaking of a maximum of three weeks, sometimes even only a few days. Nevertheless, mantrailing has proven so effective that it is now employed by several state police directorates and may be regarded in court as strong corroborative evidence.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Essen cooperates nationwide with various mantrailer teams at different locations. If you have reached the limits of your own resources, call us and make use of the underestimated instrument of the canine nose.

 

A particularly interesting article on the subject of mantrailing by Mario Seydel can be found in the commemorative publication marking the 10th anniversary of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kriminalistik or in abridged form at www.kriminalistik.info.