It is inappropriate to state that every employee who has such problems will steal, but during trying times, the pressure to steal may be greater. Financial troubles, domestic discord, drug abuse, and excessive gambling can contribute to theft. Employee personal problems often affect behavior on the job. Two major causes of employee theft are employee personal problems and the environment. Purpura, in Security and Loss Prevention (Sixth Edition), 2013 Why Do Employees Steal? Undercover investigations are a widely used and effective method to combat losses. Although these practices produce a negative image of undercover investigative services, not all of these companies are unethical. When clients become impatient and ask why the investigation is taking so long, sometimes the service company’s response is that “a break in the case is right around the corner and we just need a few more weeks.” If put under excessive pressure by supervisors, investigators may succumb to exaggerated reports and may even invent information. Frightening reports about losses can scare clients into paying for unnecessarily lengthy investigations. Supervisors are known to withhold good information from clients to submit later during “dry weeks,” when no substantial information is uncovered. The reporting phase of the investigation is the time when unscrupulous activity by the service company may take place. Are they prepared to testify in court, if necessary? How many reports will the client receive each week? Undercover investigators send reports to their immediate supervisor, who edits them before sending a report to the client. Are investigators bonded? Proof should be provided. The client should ask the representative about the backgrounds of investigators, selection methods (for employment and assignment), training, and supervision.
The cost may be thousands of dollars per week, depending on the background of the investigator. These investigations last from six to eight weeks but may require months to yield success. When speaking to a service representative, the client needs to find out the cost and probable length of the investigation. With an understanding of how contract undercover investigation services operate, the client will obtain better results. The undercover investigator secretly infiltrates employee informal groups, as a regular employee, to gather information about theft, illegal drug usage, production problems, employee behavior toward customers, and other issues. Management often recruits an outside firm specializing in undercover investigations. When this happens, management wants immediate action even when it is predisposed to avoid panic buying. Purpura, in Security and Loss Prevention (Sixth Edition), 2013 Contract Undercover InvestigationsĪ common scenario in businesses is the panic atmosphere after the discovery of a high inventory-shrinkage statistic following an inventory. true crime addicts will find Marrett's account of his six years as an undercover agent organising dangerous stings in the criminal underworld a must-read.Philip P. the trial followed and eight were sentenced to 41 years of combined jail time. Operation Afghan concluded in a tense stand-off in country NSW where ten mafia gangsters were arrested on 36 separate drugs and firearms charges. Compelled to stay in character for long periods of time over the nine month operation, Marrett became the knockabout drug dealer Ben Gleeson.
the young detective is famously known for infiltrating the seemingly impenetrable Griffith Mafia, in an operation codenamed Afghan which is still regarded as Australia's most complex covert sting operation. Marrett was so exceptionally talented that he was responsible for some of the biggest drug busts in Australian law enforcement history. After reluctantly joining the Victorian Police in 1986, Damian Marrett was handpicked four years later to work in a covert capacity for the Drug Squad. Damian Marrett's penetrating yet darkly comic insights and astonishing candour provides the real story behind bringing down the Griffith Mafia. UNDERCOVER is the story of an undercover detective working to infiltrate the Australian drug scene. All in a day's work for a Drug Squad cop Made infamous by tV series Underbelly and Underbelly: A tale of two Cities, the Australian underworld has been exposed.
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