Assignment:
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 prevention 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 experienced 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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