Taking a Break During an Employee Theft Investigation

I was coordinating a large internal theft investigation case which required that several employee theft investigation interviews were taking place simultaneously due to the large number of employees being interviewed.

After having completed one of my employee theft interviews, I stepped outside to take a break.  A few minutes later I was joined by another loss prevention consultant. Tony had just interviewed an employee who admitted to theft and while he was writing out his confession, Tony decided to take a break as well.

I have more than 2,000 employee theft investigation cases under my belt and I always try to think of ways that someone may be committing employee theft . Needless to say I have trouble passing some integrity tests since I do spend a great deal of time thinking about theft. I am not making plans for myself to steal but I always wonder how other people may go about stealing.

While standing outside, I noticed some fuel pumps. The fuel pumps didn’t have a look to secure them and I also didn’t notice any log sheet where anyone would record the pumping of gas.

As my mind was honing in on how easy it would be to steal gas from pumps that are not secured and most likely not audited in any form, I asked Tony to go back inside and ask his suspect how many gallons of gas he was stealing on a regular basis.

The suspect was surprised by the question but admitted to having stolen at least 40 gallons of gas each month over the last 24 months. Guess thinking about theft had paid off again for the good guys.

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