1. The Safeparts Company, a California-based distributor of automobile parts, recently conducted an inventory at its Los Angeles facility that showed inventory losses of $850,000. Concerned about the losses, management at Safeparts sought immediate action. You are a partner at Klein and Smith Loss Prevention Associates, a consulting firm. Safeparts executives contact you for assistance. A meeting is arranged. After competition with two other security and loss preven- tion firms, Safeparts executives decide on a 2-month contract for your firm’s services. You are in charge. What are your specific plans and actions?
2. You are senior investigator for the Bolt Corporation, which is a top 100 corpora- tion with large holdings in electrical supplies. Because you have an excellent re- cord and 11 years of varied investigative experience with Bolt, you are selected by the director of loss prevention to train five newly hired college-educated in- vestigators. The director stresses that you will design a 105-h training program to span 3 weeks. After 3 weeks, the investigators will be assigned to various divisions within Bolt, where they will receive specialized training while working with expe- rienced investigators. The director states that your curriculum design is due tomorrow for a 4 p.m. loss prevention meeting. She requires that you list the topics, hours for each topic, and why the particular topics and hours were chosen.
3. As a corporate investigator based in the United States, you are assigned to investigate a serious internal theft problem at a company industrial plant in Reynosa, Mexico. How do you proceed with this investigation? What resources do you rely on? What are your plans to solve this case?
4. As a corporate investigator you and your supervisor have been contacted by the human resources department about a female employee who claims that a male employee is sending her sexually suggestive emails and pornography via the corporate IT system. How do you investigate this case?
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