Forensic Recovery

A specialist local 24hr vehicle recovery service for Police Forces, involving preservation of accident or crime evidence for forensic examination.

CMG has invested heavily in the development of forensic recovery techniques in collaboration with Scenes of Crime Officers, Police Vehicle Examiners and equipment manufacturers. As a result any motor vehicle, caravan or trailer can be recovered from any position which affords access to the recovery vehicle:

• without contact with the bodywork, suspension or floorpan
• with or without wheels
• without the wheels turning (if present)
• without requiring any access to the vehicle interior or driving controls

Vehicles required for forensic examination can be recovered without any risk of damage to the bodywork and without degradation of fingerprints, other contact evidence or mechanical evidence:

• from any position on or off lock in any confined parking space
• in any state of physical integrity, from showroom condition to severe impact damage

The term 'Forensic Recovery', now used nationally, was coined by CMG in the early 1980's and describes the specialist methods employed by the company when preservation of evidence is of paramount importance in the recovery of vehicles for Police Forces.

As important as the equipment used is the expertise of recovery technicians. CMG intensively trains selected recovery operatives in the practical aspects of forensic recovery to achieve and maintain the high levels of skill essential to such work.

Recovery operations are controlled and monitored by experienced staff using the latest computerised dispatching and tracking technology.