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False South African Drivers Licenses
Many professions require the employee to have a valid driver’s licence. This is necessary for insurance purposes and also to ensure that some protection and good care is given to company vehicles which those individuals may be entrusted with driving.
Failure to have a valid drivers licence is the single most quoted reason for insurance companies rejecting accident claims. South Africa has one of the highest drivers licence fraud rates in the world, with estimates of the numbers of invalid drivers licenses of over 20 percent. Out of a group of 20 people, 4 will have a false drivers license.
In fact, you can ever order a false drivers license over the internet and have it delivered to your door. See example below:
Under these circumstances, it is nothing short of recklessness not to ensure that all Drivers Licences and Professional Driving Permits in your company are validated as genuine.
Criminal Records
A considerable number of employees have previous criminal convictions.
These days the only way to check criminal records is trough the use of an AFIS system, where electronic fingerprints are taken and submitted for verification. Companies need to buy special equipment, pay licence fees, and have a Certified Biometrics officer (which has to undergo special training) at hand to take these fingerprints. A lot of smaller companies just can’t afford all these requirements.
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Theft in the workplace
There can be nothing more demoralising on the morale of employees than theft in the workplace by fellow employees. We have probably all experienced an incident of a cellphone or money gone missing out of someone’s handbag.
Companies only start acknowledging the problem when larger items/stock start to dissappear. By this time they hardly ever realise that they have already got a Ring of Thieves in their midsts!
Think about it, it takes more than one person to remove a large item, move it past security and arrange transport.
Theft is a difficult crime to solve (lack of evidence / witnesses) and 90% of the cases are never solved. Law enforcement aren’t equipped to deal with it and don’t always have the time as they concentrate on more serious crimes like rape, robbery and murder.
If it isn’t already happening in your company, it is not a question of will it happen, but when.
Ironically, organizations spend more money on Coffee than on deploying counter measures to protect the organization against internal theft.
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In internal theft cases for example, a polygraph test can be employed with quick and effect results to narrow the suspect pool, before the start of an investigation even, saving company time and resources.
Understanding Retail Shrinkage
Shrinkage refers to the unexplained or unauthorized loss of inventory, merchandise, cash or any other asset from a retail establishment by employee theft, shoplifting, organized retail crime, administrative errors and vendor fraud.
According to the NRA survey, most retail shrinkage is caused by employee theft, representing almost half of the losses (47 percent).
The survey also found that organized retail crime (ORC is a relatively low-risk, high-reward crime conducted by fairly sophisticated and skilled groups of criminals. The thefts usually involve specific small, high-priced items that have a high resale value on the black market, such as baby formula, coffee, steaks, cigarettes, smoking cessation products, eyeglass frames, over-the-counter health products, razor blades, fragrances, batteries, electronic goods, printer ink cartridges, power tools and athletic apparel) is on the increase, with retailers having invested little to curb the problem. Although many assume that most of a retail company’s shrinkage is the result of shoplifting, more thefts and losses from stores are internal, committed by employee’s.
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