- Cerberus Investigations Limited
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Cerberus Investigations Limited is a Corporate and Intellectual Property Investigations company headquartered in London, England. Cerberus was founded in 2005. The owners of Cerberus, Duncan Mee and Cameron Gowlett, have been involved in a number of media projects, the most recent being the film Erasing David which was released in UK cinemas on 29 April 2010.[1][2]
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Business
The company conducts both Corporate and Intellectual Property investigations on behalf of businesses and law firms. The company also provides tracing investigations for private individuals.
Geographic reach
Since 2005 Cerberus has been headquartered in Covent Garden, London and has a sister office in Istanbul, Turkey.[3] The company operates worldwide for both Intellectual Property and Corporate investigations.
Historic Cases
In March 2007, Cerberus was instructed to investigate the theft of a consignment of £500,000-worth of new-line stock from White Stuff, a clothing company. The incident occurred near the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) and was taken from a HGV lorry parked in a lay-by.[4] Following an investigation by Cerberus on eBay and other internet auction sites, samples of the stolen stock was identified and purchased. The seller’s details were supplied to the appropriate police departments and on the morning of May 16 eight warrants were successfully executed by the local constabularies in Liverpool North, Kirkby and Blackpool. A large number of items (roughly £50,000-worth) were retrieved, many in their original White Stuff container boxes from the HGV. Cerberus worked alongside three police forces, Warwickshire, Merseyside and Lancashire, and officers of the national intelligence agencies TruckPol and AVCIS and their provision of evidence led to the recovery of the stolen goods.[5]
In March 2008, Cerberus began working with Makita (UK) Limited to remove parallel imports and counterfeit power tools on eBay and other online auction websites.
Media Work
In January 2009, Cameron Gowlett and Duncan Mee of co-starred in the feature-length documentary called Erasing David by David Bond and Ashley Jones of Green Lions Films which was funded by the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.[6]
On the 17th April 2010 in the Saturday Times article 'Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?' Cameron Gowlett and Duncan Mee were interviewed with David Bond in by Jean-Paul Flintoff which focused on the film Erasing David and the issues raised in it.[7]
Before the film’s cinematic release in the United Kingdom on the 20th April 2010, Cameron Gowlett appeared alongside David Bond to discuss the film Erasing David on BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘The Victoria Derbyshire Show’.
On 27 April, More 4 held a special screening of Erasing David at the Royal Society of Arts, London. Following the screening, the Director David Bond and featured private investigators Duncan Mee and Cameron Gowlett of Cerberus, took part in a discussion chaired by C4 Head of Documentaries, Hamish Mykura.[8]
On the 28th April 2010, Duncan Mee appeared alongside David Bond on BBC London Radio’s ‘The Robert Elms Show to discuss the film Erasing David and how a private detective works in tracking and tracing someone on the run.
On 23 July 2010, Duncan Mee appeared in an interview for Vice Magazine by Henry Langston called 'An Interview with a Private Eye'. In the interview, Duncan discussed his life as a private investigator and the nature of his work at Cerberus.[9]
On 29 August 2010, Cameron Gowlett appeared in the BBC1 programme Trackers as a specialist in tracing people and databases.[10]
Notes
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3873678/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3863330/
- ^ http://www.cerberus.com.tr
- ^ http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/500000-worth-of-clothes-stolen.2134272.jp
- ^ http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200706/1181573934.html
- ^ http://erasingdavid.com/categories/partners/
- ^ http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7096105.ece
- ^ http://www.channel4.com/programmes/erasing-david/articles/video-erasing-david-q-a
- ^ http://www.viceland.com/wp/2010/07/an-interview-with-a-private-eye/
- ^ http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/listings/bbc-1/2010-08-29/22-25/
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