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 Employment Screening In addition to general investigation and surveillance, Internal Affairs is able to provide employee screening services, including the identification of Criminal Record, Financial History and Reference confirmation information, on a local, national and international level. The impact of the dramatic terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York City on September 11, 2001, and continuing subsequent fatal events in Bali, Spain, the United Kingdom and elsewhere as well as examples of widespread corporate fraud and accounting irregularities, i.e. Enron and Tyco Corporation, have focused attention as never before both on issues of internal security and the integrity of prospective and current employees as well as contract workers and clients within our business infrastructure. The importance of conducting proper background ('due diligence') investigations before becoming involved with a client or making critical hiring, promotion, partnership, investment, acquisition, merger or other business decisions has become increasingly recognized as a critical, legitimate and integral component in the conduct of business affairs and the management of human resources. In Canada, the National Repository of Criminal Records contains roughly 3 million criminal records and analyzes, creates and updates over 540,000 criminal records each year. Statistics Canada estimates that as of July 1, 2000, of 30,750,087 Canadian inhabitants, 2,600,994 men and 681,199 women - over ten (10) percent - had criminal records. (If only the adult population is considered, the percentage is much higher.) Obviously, a significant number of employment applicants will have some form of criminal record and studies suggest that a substantial number of employment applications and curriculum vitae contain information that is false or fraudulent in nature in some other material respect. In addition, nearly five (5) per cent of the North American population is victimized each year by identity theft, a rapidly growing crime, that provides the basis for personation and fraudulent employment as well as other unlawful activity. In 2001, Canadian industry estimates indicated that property related fraud cost the associated financial services industry more than $300 million, credit card fraud cost $230 million and insurance fraud cost the property and casualty industry $1.3 billion. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimates that the average organization loses more than six (6) percent of its total annual revenue to fraud and other forms of abuse. The issues are essentially exactly the same in other jurisdictions with appropriate adjustments for cultural and demographic differences. Internal Affairs' Employment Screening Services employ a three-stage approach - Screening, Scrutinizing and Assessment - are accurate, time-sensitive, cost-effective and can include:
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