By Loss Prevention Media Staff
Employee gets probation, not jail
Armed robber gets jail time
Retail sales top $3.8 trillion
LPA body slammed
Manager takes plea deal
Knife-wielding suspect busted Read More
By Christopher P. Norris, CFI, and Frank Borecki, CFI
How was I going to secure an admission if I couldn’t look the employee in the eyes, observe his body language, and gauge deception in all the ways interviewers are traditionally trained? Read More
By Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates
When it comes employee investigations, sometimes the “smell test” will not let you rest. You know, those situations when you listen to a story or a business practice, and something just plain stinks. Read More
By David E. Zulawski, CFI, CFE, and Shane G. Sturman, CFI, CPP
Many times, the guilty individual will intentionally shade the truth in an attempt to salvage his self-image or to reduce the seriousness of what he has done. Read More
Often, these theft events will occur in the retail setting, but there are other ways by which the devices can be used to steal information. Unfortunately, all it requires is a little illicit technology and a lot of criminal intent. Read More
By The Loss Prevention Foundation
Simply stated, embezzlement involves a breach of trust. The nature of embezzlement can be either minor in nature (for example, a dishonest employee pocketing a few dollars from the cash register), or involve immense sums of money and sophisticated schemes. Read More
Not every solution needs to feed into the crime prevention arms race. An important foundation, say researchers and industry experts, is for retailers to assess whether their basic control policies and procedures might be inadvertently contributing to employee dishonesty. Read More
By Peter Chie
Using rapport-building techniques with the subject can aid in gleaning information that can help identify and build rationalizations to be used later in the interview process. Establishing a rapport is a critical part of the interview, helping to build trust and injecting a certain level of serenity into the process. Read More
By Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates
When trying to obtain the truth from a dishonest employee, a suspect involved in another type of criminal investigation, or even a member of your family, we typically see five types of lies. [WZ / IAI Interviewing and Interrogation Training Tip of the Week from the archives.] Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: Chad McIntosh is the vice president of loss prevention and risk management for Bloomingdale’s. He has more than forty years of loss prevention experience with companies that include Macy’s, Polo Ralph Lauren, and The Home Depot. Throughout his career, McIntosh has been highly active in the loss prevention Read More
