NEWS and ARTICLES
Criminal Entrepreneurs
This 'criminal entrepreneur' is the employee who using a business mentality obtains stolen products, markets them
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Equality Bill
Tim Lang, Partner and Head of employment law at George Green LLP takes us through the key changes employers should be aware of
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Putting the Cuffs on Corporate Fraud
When you have a disarmed a madman wielding an axe you would think you had seen it all.
But for former police intelligence officer David Kearns the extent of corporate fraud in the Midlands is a constant surprise.
The imposing 42-year-old is the director of Birmingham-based corporate detective agency Expert Investigations
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Threat of Insider Fraud on the Rise
Employees seeking to maintain affluent lifestyles are increasingly turning to defrauding employers, and the length of the recession and slow pace of growth is only escalating the risk of insider fraud, according to specialist fraud lawyer, Mark Kenkre, a partner at Midlands firm Challinors.
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Midlands companies must do more to prevent corporate fraud
With news that the UK’s economy has contracted for a record sixth consecutive quarter, Birmingham-based corporate detective agency Expert Investigations is warning Midlands businesses of a significant increase in corporate fraud.
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VIDEO: Expert Investigations Promotional Film
Watch Expert Investigations' corporate promotional film for an overview of the services we provide.
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VIDEO: Covert Surveillance Techniques
Watch the recent footage of covert surveillance techniques broadcast on BBC2's Who's Watching You? programme.
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Expense Claims - Counting the Cost
Alan Dark, Associate in the Employment Team at Shakespeare Putsman LLP discusses the importance of having watertight procedures for expense claims just in case claims end up in dismissal and potentially Tribunal.
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Meet a Covert Surveillance Motorcycle Officer
Read about the skills of an Expert Investigations' motorcycle surveillance officer and how these skills are put to good use in live operations.
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How to Investigate Theft in the Workplace, Part III
In Part III of our Theft in the Workplace articles, David Kearns discusses thefts committed by employees and effective methods of investigating or dealing with these situations.
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The Benefit of Using Professional Witness Services
David Kearns discusses how using professional witnesses can help Housing Officers deal with anti-social behaviour issues
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Fair Dismissals Need Fair Investigations
Lorraine Teague, Partner at Shakespeare Putsman LLP explains how fair dismissals conducted with fair investigation using cover surveillance is not a breach of human rights
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How to Investigate Theft in the Workplace, Part II
In Part II of our Theft in the Workplace articles, David Kearns examines issues of Theft of Time from employees through false absenteeism and the significant cost implications such issues create. He discusses how using covert surveillance techniques, employers can take control of intangible workplace theft.
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets Going - Part I
Geraldine Haden, Partner at Gorrara Haden Solicitors describes how using the covert surveillance techniques from Expert Investigations, helped one housing estate in the Midlands get to grips with Anti-social Behaviour.
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Meet A Surveillance Officer from Expert Investigations
Read about the skills of an Expert Investigations' surveillance officer and how these skills are put to good use in live operations.
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How Expert Investigations' Professional Witness Service Secured Four ASBO's
Sheron Hall of Consilium Housing Consultants reports on how using the professional witness service from Expert Investigations cut reports of nuisance on a Birmingham estate by 80%.
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David Kearns looks at How to Investigate Theft in the Workplace - Part I
Theft in the workplace is a rather interesting area for discussion as it often raises many questions when we speak with clients, so over the next few months we will look at theft and fraud in the workplace and how to effectively deal with it and the consequences that it can have on your business or organisation. Read more.
Meet David Kearns, Former Police Field Intelligence Detective and MD of Expert Investigations
Find out more about the man behind Expert Investigations. Read more.
Facebook - what is your status? by Vanessa DiCuffa, Senior Associate, Employment, Freeth Cartwright LLP
The use of Facebook is widely written about these days. Employers are warned of the need to consider how to monitor their employees. Advice is given about whether to give use at all or to allow limited use only. Policies are advocated to enable use and abuse of the site by employees to be managed by an employer. Consideration is given by employers as to the benefit of Facebook. Is it another marketing tool which, if used effectively can be constructive? Or is it a way in which to monitor the behaviour of employees? So what about using Facebook to gauge and monitor an employee who is absent through sickness? Read more.
Abolition of statutory dispute resolution by Martin Brewer, Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP
From April 2009 the existing law on dismissals and grievances is swept away and replaced by a new non-statutory regime. Here we look at what will replace it, how employers should respond and the importance of investigating workplace incidences. Read more
Expert on the BBC
The BBC approached Expert Investigations to help them with a three-part documentary focused on investigations and surveillance. Read more.
Strategies for an uncertain future
The Benefits of Conducting Investigations in the Workplace
Investigation can be cost effective and pro-active in all manner of areas, some of which we can already see in escalation since the ‘credit crunch’. In this article David Kearns of Expert Investigations examines the different types of investigations that can be carried out lawfully in the workplace. Read more.
The Benefits of Investigating Internal and External Theft in the Workplace
Theft in the workplace can be tangible items like tools, equipment and products to intangible items like transferring monies via electronic means. Here David Kearns of Expert Investigations looks at how organisations can deal with issues of theft and stay within the law. Read more.
