The private and corporate (all businesses) are fraught with incidences that can only be handled through undercover operations. No other effective means is available to discover negative or criminal activity at home or at work.
Undercover operations are stressful. The chance of discovery haunts the undercover agent and the possibility of failure. These types of investigations are also manpower intensive. The undercover investigation may run many hours.

Undercover Investigation Techniques

The primary investigative efforts of the private investigator conducting undercover operations are:
• Workplace, theft, drug usage, sexual harassment, cyber-bullying, embezzlement, fraud and theft. Some workplace actions have led to homicide.
• Corporate investigation not only strive to accomplish the successful prosecution of many of the above listed crimes, but include service standards, flaws in organization, policies and procedures. Other considerations are sabotage and poor security.
• Surveillance is conducted, and requires stealth on the part of an operative. Surveillance personnel working in conjunction with undercover operatives broaden the spectrum of activities that can be monitored. These investigations can protect the employer from false injury claims, as well as their long-term production losses. The labor-employer interaction is laden with convoluted legal manifestations and for an employer to act, evidence must be collected and documented.
• Counter-surveillance. Executives may find that they are targeted for nefarious purposes. Some are targets of an investigation and are being surveilled by other operatives looking for damning evidence or activities to leverage against the corporate officer. Additionally criminal activities like stalking may place an employee or business executive in mortal danger.

Due Diligence

In consideration of the current legal environment the company or individual may need to build counter evidence or perform due diligence to protect themselves in cases of civil litigation. Undercover operations can reveal missteps and weaknesses of the business policies and procedures. Employee activity such as drug use during working hours, nonadherence to safety protocols, noncompliance to employ-customer relationships or client activities that can negatively affect the reputation of the business or private enterprise.

Intellectual Property Theft

Businesses are always at risk from the theft of proprietary information or intellectual property loss. The world has become very competitive, and seemingly the moral basis has degenerated to the point that corporate (any business) can become the victim of espionage. If your business serves the government or military is may be subject to not only competitor but foreign intrigue as well. Union problems may demand undercover operations to discern espionage activities that disrupt production or perhaps a competitor has induced workers to impede production.

Operations Security

One of the obstacles to successful undercover investigation is operational security. Someone in management will be aware of the operation, even if they don’t know the identity of the operative. Rumors of undercover operations will build distrust between employees and puts the target on notice, curtailing their compromising activities. It is therefor of primary importance that the knowledge of the operation is keep to a few as possible. This is even more important if an executive officer is the target of the investigation.

Internal Investigations

Internal investigations also call on financial and forensic accountants the try to follow the paper trail of the nefarious activities. By their nature embezzlement and fraud are secretive activities, and require patience and attention to detail to discover the crime. In most cases we know ‘who’, but in fraud investigations it is the ‘how’ that needs to be investigated.

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