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Civil Enforcement Agent

About the course

As a Civil Enforcement Agent you are there to enforce civil law by various means i.e. Serving of legal process, the repossession of goods etc. and you do not (unless you want to) follow people’s wives and husbands. Your work revolves mainly around debt in particular the collection and recovery of money and goods. This type of work is also similar to Bailiff work on which the course has a section.

Topics covered include:

What a Civil Enforcement Agent Is. An introduction to the course, the types of work done and details of equipment needed to start up.
Tracing Techniques. How to find absconding debtors, beneficiaries and people that have moved away.
Process Serving. The serving personally of Legal Documents on Debtors, Witnesses and Respondents (in family matters).
Pre Sue Reports and Employee Vetting. The reporting to clients as to if a debtor is worth suing by covertly assessing their assets. Vetting is checking the back grounds of potential employee’s to see if they are fit and proper for the job they have applied and verifying the information they have given in their applications.
Means Report and Debt Counselling. Interviewing of debtors as to their circumstances and completing income and expenditure reports with offers to pay arrears.
Repossession. The recovery of goods for Finance Companies, banks and Building Societies full details of how to repossess: Vehicles, Credit Cards, Plant, Property and Goods.
The Work of a Certificated Bailiff. What types of work they do, how to become one and a guide to their terminology.
Debt Collection Techniques. How to successfully collect money by letter, telephone or doorstep calls. How to deal with bounced cheques and Bankruptcy.
Insurance Fraud. How to take statements from claimants with or without cautions and how to investigate bogus claims.
Contacts. Where to get work, where to and where not to advertise, Trade Associations and Useful Contacts.