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Although we believe it to be imperative to screen candidates prior to employment with your organisation, it is equally important to continually monitor your staff at regular intervals on an ongoing basis.
Circumstances of people change over time, and for that reason honest, reliable, trustworthy candidates who have originally been retained by your organisation could well be the people who may commit fraud or dishonest behaviour within the workplace. People in positions of trust understand company systems and invariably are able to use their position to their own financial or beneficial advantage. Combine this with a person’s financial situation changing for circumstances such as greed or problem gambling and you have a employee who has the ability to defraud your organisation. Fact In the 2004 fraud survey conducted by KPMG it was found a typical fraudster is; > a male aged 31 years acting alone;
> been with the organisation for a period of 6 years and held his current position for 4 years at time of detection; > was generally motivated by greed was detected by a workplace colleague 13 months after detection of the fraud; > was a non management employee with no known history of dishonesty with a previous employer; > misappropriated funds on average in excess of $330,000 (based on survey results); > 38% of frauds were motivated by greed; > 21% of frauds were motivated by problem gambling. By screening your personnel regularly with Precise Background Services you will be able to evaluate whether people in trust have recently; > been a person of interest to Police; We encourage all organisations to ensure you know your people!
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