Build off of someone else’s legwork

I got a phone call the other day from a friend of mine who works as a district level investigator for a national retail chain. She was leaving a store when she noticed an undercover police officer escorting someone back to his patrol car. As she was watching, she noticed that all of a sudden the parking lot was filling up with squad cars, surrounding the area.

Needless to say, she was rather taken aback and decided to wait and see what was going on. Sure enough, moments later one of the store employees, who had been sitting I his car, was being put into handcuffs and taken away.

She immediately went in to let the store managers know that there was a very distinct possibility that employee would not be returning from his lunch break.

Now, there is always the protocol of innocent until proven guilty in our legislative system. However, that doesn’t mean we should not be doing our due diligence and opening up an employee theft investigation.

If the employee is clean, than the employee theft investigation will yield no results. If you have an employee selling drugs, or other illicit activities on their lunch break, in the store’s parking lot, mind you, than chances are, there will be something to find in that employee theft investigation.

As investigators, we have our pride to think about and always want to feel like we are on top of every single employee theft case. We never want to feel like we overlooked, or weren’t smart enough to catch on to the employee theft.

That doesn’t mean we can’t push our pride aside and let someone else’s investigation open the door to our own employee theft case.

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