PROFILE

Principal - Barry Newman

For a number of years prior to setting up APEX GROUP, Barry has been personally involved in the Private Investigation industry conducting Surveillance for various high profile companies and individuals and well-known Private Investigators. He has achieved a high rate of success for them and their respective clients.

During this time he has been involved in several major Private Investigations, which include the high profile and notable  “Million Dollar Chubb robbery” in Wellington at Christmas of 2000. (New Zealand’s largest robbery)

Barry’s background and expertise in Surveillance stems from 21 years in New Zealand Police. He spent a number of years in his later career, on the Surveillance Squad of the Criminal Intelligence Section in Christchurch. It was here that he was trained and gained the knowledge, experience and expertise in all aspects of “Covert Surveillance”, both as an individual and in a team environment. This included static, foot, mobile and video and camera surveillance and involved working on some extremely high profile cases e.g. “Urqhart” murder investigation in Nelson 1992.

This case was only the second case in New Zealand history to have a person successfully prosecuted and convicted with out the recovery or finding of a victims body. This conviction was directly attributed to the work of  “Surveillance” and received high praise from the presiding judge. He has also been involved in numerous other serious Operations involving Robbery, Burglary, Thefts and Drug cases etc, to name a few.

Our Staff:

For Operational and security reasons, the sensitive nature of Surveillance work and to preserve the anonymity of our field staff, we prefer not to identify or profile them. Suffice to say they are ex Police, professional and highly trained in all aspects of Covert Surveillance, and arguably the best in the country.