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search_officers

Find people who hold officer positions (director, secretary, partner) by name across a registry.

Entry point for 'follow the person, not the company' investigations. Returns officer candidates with an `officer_id` that pipes into `get_officer_appointments` to retrieve every company that person has been appointed to.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
jurisdiction	string	yes	ISO code for the country whose officer register to search.
query	string	yes	Officer name (surname first where registry prefers it).
limit	integer	no	Result cap (default 10).

Supported jurisdictions (3)

• 🇬🇧 GB — United Kingdom
• 🇳🇿 NZ — New Zealand
• 🇹🇼 TW — Taiwan

Related tools

• get_officer_appointments — Every company an officer has been appointed to — the cross-company tracing endpoint.
• get_officers — Directors, secretaries, partners, board members — current + (by default) historical resignations.