Skip tracing comes in the art of finding missing persons or property such as car, money bag and other movable property that can be stolen or missed. It is an art as well as it is a profession that comes in private investigation or surveillance. Simply, skip tracing is all about locating a person who has skipped from home or place where he is resided. There are many reasons behind skip tracing but no one actually judge the reason. Most probably a person is kidnapped by some kidnappers; in some cases he himself hides due to his unhappy life or maybe he is not satisfied from his marriage life, or he could be a person running away from creditors, he could be a person who is not sane or insolvent and most probably he could be a person who has some serious disease such as memory loss etc.

Despite these reasons, skip tracing is also categorized in some parts where it has many kinds. The first comes kidnapping or it is called unintentional missing. In this category, a person is missing because someone has kidnapped him or he has no idea about this kind of missing or mostly he is not sure where is being taken to! The other kind is intentional missing where a person is running away from his creditors or hides himself at a place that is not known to his creditors. There are many reasons behind skip tracing and every possibility could be genuine and can happen to a person without prior information. Criminal activity can also force person to hide somewhere because he has no courage to face corps, but all such tracing is done by private investigators and they do utmost effort to find a person.

All the private investigating companies have utilized the professional services of private detectives who are highly skilled, expert, dedicated and professional in locating all the missing persons. Missing person can be a friend, family member or anyone; finding that person is the responsibility of detective eyes and they do the best possible investigation to trace the skipped person. Importantly, they are specialized and skilled professionals who can make this task easy because they have got proper training from institutions that are known as investigation institutes. Training for investigation is very much important and it is needed for sure in this field.

There are some rules that a detective agent has to follow and take care while investigation is going on. Investigation of a missing person is not easy job, it takes time in finding a person and to be a professional investigator a person who to be intelligent, educated and creative mind. If he is short temper person; then it will be difficult for him to find person who is missing. Temperament is very much required in this field and he should have access to all the information that belongs to the skipped person such as age, color, date of birth and complete profile of missing person.