Signals that indicate internal theft – Part 6 of 10 – Atlanta Georgia

Signals that may point to possible employee theft or internal theft with goods or money. Do not forget you must train your employees what to look for. They will help you prior to an employee theft investigation .

• An increased frequency of reports of faults in delivered goods.
• Faults noted by the same employee despite other personnel carrying out the same checks.
• Personnel repeatedly fail to follow instructions such as daily bank deposits of cash.
• The seeming forgetting of important daily tasks such as switching on the alarm, closing doors, or storage of expensive property in special cupboards being followed by a break in or ram-raid.
• Branch employees ‘forget’ to report losses or other unusual events or are repeatedly the ‘victim’ of an unfortunate incident or circumstance.
• Checks or opening and closing times show deviations such as extremely early or late times, whether or not on the same day every week.
• Opening the premises during closing times to show round family and friends etc.
• Ringing up packed goods of various quality and cost for the same price.
• Giving the customer various goods but only passing the cheapest article past the scanner. Security measures are removed and all articles are bagged as normal.
• Allowing theft by acquaintances and when the alarm at the exit sounds has a ‘friendly’ (security) colleague carry out the bag check.
• The salesperson attaches a bar code for a cheap article to their wrist and scans this but acquaintances take dearer articles. Also in this case the till display window is often covered or turned away.
• The giving of reductions by the salesperson to the purchaser without this reduction being registered and the article subsequently being returned for the full amount.
• Third parties such as suppliers, collect-clients and drivers are discovered at business locations where they should not be, promptly followed by a report of shortages that are put down to the unregistered visitor.

Employees that steal will not wave a flag that says here I am. You have to watch and be on the lookout at all times. Internal theft or employee theft will be hidden from your view. It will also be made to look like something else such as a mistake. Do not be mislead look for employee theft or internal theft beyond the “facts” you are given. Do not be afraid to ask questions and demand answers. In most cases what you find will then require a quick employee theft investigation to dig the reat out.

Watch for more parts to come in future blogs!

For more information about internal theft or employee theft contact us at employee theft investigation or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia