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Risk Management

Recently, a local Phoenix news station aired a story regarding a large, local tech company that had reportedly called 9-1-1 over 800 times in a three year period.  This company asked the police to respond for a myriad of problems occurring on their campus, including thefts, assaults, vandalism, and much more.   Is your company dealing with an increase of crimes occurring on your property?  What are the risks to the company?  A serious minded Risk Manager needs to consider how events like these effect their business.  Is there a danger to employees?  Will production and/or sales be impacted?  What can be done to mitigate any potential liability?   An experienced Private Investigator can help your Risk Management department conduct background investigations on potential employees; internal personnel investigations of employees suspected not only criminal behavior, but also theft of real and intellectual property, sexual harassment, violations of company policy and threat assessments.  Ri
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Who ever said you have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person?

       If you've watched any TV detective shows or movies where a missing person was part of the plot, you've no doubt heard the police say you have to wait 24 or 48 hours to report a missing person.   Have you ever considered what might be lost in that time period?  How far can someone travel within the time it takes to actually become missing, and being noticed as missing, then waiting the allegedly required time frame to make the report.  That's a big distance and, potentially, a huge loss of evidence.  Well, the good news is that in the United States, you don't have to wait 24 seconds let alone 24 hours.       So, who can actually report someone missing?  Does it have to be a next of kin?  Well, in the vast majority of US jurisdictions, (it could vary), anyone can report anyone as missing whenever the circumstances warrant the report.  In California, where I worked for 32 years, you can report a missing person to ANY law enforcement agency regardless of the person&#
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