Initiating an Employee Theft Investigation – Atlanta Georgia

Once you’ve observed the signs and believe you have internal theft taking place within your organization it’s time to begin an employee theft investigation. What this basically means is you have to now gather evidence to find out who is involved in the internal theft and how they’re doing it. On your network television shows it may be ok to drag someone in with a gut feeling and try to force a confession out of them, but in real life that’s a great way to get sued. So I encourage you to do your due diligence and investigate the situation thoroughly and only interview the suspect once the evidence is confirmed.

Let’s say you’ve noticed a pattern of cash shortages. These shortages take place on the same day and time every week. You check the schedule and find that during the majority of the shortages the same individual was always working the cash register. Now it’s time to review the footage. At no time do you ever see the subject take money out of the register and pocket it. Also, any “no sales” rang on that register do not correspond to the times and dates of the shortages. So unless the subject is a distant relative of Harry Houdini there’s no way that they’re responsible for the shortage, right? Wrong!

There are many different ways to commit internal theft; therefore an employee theft investigation must be multifaceted. Check your footage again and you may find that your subject is always ringing up the same 2 customers on the days of the shortages. These customers purchase fairly inexpensive merchandise but they receive a great deal of change back every time. The customers are obviously working in collusion with the subject. Whether they divvy up the money later or he’s just giving it away it is now obvious what is causing the shortage and how the subject is doing it. With this evidence you may now proceed with the rest of your employee theft investigation.

For more information about internal theft or employee theft or corporate fraud investigation contact us at Employee Theft Investigation or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia