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Police Forces

Tracing technology is crucial to police forces throughout the UK. NameTracer Pro can be used for:

• Building an address history - NameTracer Pro provides up to 7 years of historical data. Users can restrict a search to a specific year, or range of years, increasing the speed and efficiency of searches, as well as allowing the return of previous addresses and associate information.
• On the scene questioning - The solution helps confirm a witness' or suspect's personal details and verify the information given is correct.
• Neighbour questioning - NameTracer Pro can create a list of all residents within a certain mile radius of a specified address supporting on the scene questioning or managing incidents.
• Locating witnesses or suspects - It helps locate suspects or witnesses that may have either given false details or have since moved on.

Central and Local Government

NameTracer Pro is a powerful tool for assisting with government investigations. It can assist with various activities such as locating vulnerable citizens, verifying personal details, and tracing people whose details are not correct.

Simple to use

NameTracer Pro has an easy to use, intuitive interface including a transaction log and an interactive search history helping improve the efficiency and speed of more complex queries.

Radius searching

Research shows that the majority of people move within a 10 mile radius of their previous address . NameTracer Pro's radius searching helps trace an individual who has moved from a previously known address, but within the same geographical area.

Access to historical data

NameTracer Pro has up to 7 years of name and address data available. Searches can be restricted to particular years and length of residence information is listed, increasing detail, accuracy and efficiency of searches.

Effective results

Search results are clearly and logically displayed in headed columns including name, address, search match indicator, and length of residency.

Manipulation of results

Search results columns can be individually sorted for ease of analysis. Searches can be refined and neighbours or occupants of a selected address can be shown.

Full audit trail

NameTracer Pro provides a full audit trail of every search detailing the time and date, results returned, search steps taken and the user's details. Additionally, a search reference can be inputted to link all the searches associated with a particular case or investigation.

Comprehensive data

NameTracer Pro provides access to over 27 million addresses within the postcode address file (PAF) and over 39 million names in the Experian's National Canvasse data file. This data source comprises of the Edited UK Electoral Register and other valuable sources to allow users to trace an individual's address from their name.

Experian's National Canvasse

The primary data source used in NameTracer Pro, this file brings together the UK's Edited Electoral Register and a number of additional compliant data sources. This provides a comprehensive source of consumer names data, providing 92.5% coverage of the Full Electoral Register.

Historical Enhanced Electoral Register

NameTracer Pro provides access to the current year's data as well as the previous 6 years. Date filtering functionality within NameTracer Pro allows you to search across a range of years simultaneously.

Experian's National Business Database

Containing over 2.79 million records, Experian's National Business Database can be used within NameTracer Pro allowing you to search for business names and addresses, in addition to consumer information, through a single interface.

Additional Data

Further information can be appended to name and address records including date of birth, length of residency, as well as public sector, lifestyle and geographic data.