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FCIS will help reduce your client’s risk.
FCIS will help you solve complex business problems for your clients through our comprehensive investigative and consulting services. We are professional, thorough and diligent. We utilize our decades of experience and contacts to achieve results for your clients.
We specialize in undercover workplace investigations that include harassment, substance abuse, workplace violence, internal theft, worker’s compensation and employee termination security.
We are also experienced in other crimes against businesses, such as white-collar and intellectual property crimes.
Our FCRA Compliant Consulting and risk management assessments help reduce risks for your clients.
Our services provide your clients long-term solutions with uncompromising integrity, quality and value.
Our Investigative Services Include:
- Workplace Investigations
- Threat and Risk Assessment
- FCRA Compliance Consulting
- Background Checks/Investigations
- Intellectual Property
- Surveillance/GPS Tracking/Counter Surveillance
- Witness Interviews
- Witness Locates
- Due Diligence
- Polygraph Examination
- Handwriting Analysis
Workplace Investigations:
FCIS has the experience to help your clients.
Harassment, substance abuse, violence and internal theft are only some of the many issues that can plague a business and need the experience of a professional investigator.
A qualified professional investigator can certainly conduct most types of investigations. The key word is “qualified.” At FCIS we have the expertise and years of experience in dealing with a variety of workplace investigations. Our investigators obtain the necessary evidence needed in court. We know what constitutes evidence because we have been involved in over 100 trials. We provide factual information necessary for a successful conclusion of an investigation.
When you need a professional workplace investigation conducted, additional insight into the character and activities of your subject concerning a worker’s compensation case, or security to protect your client while terminating an employee, be sure to call on our expertise and almost three decades of experience.
Threat and Risk Assessment:
FCIS can help minimize or eliminate risks for your clients.
We identify vulnerabilities that put businesses at risk by examining their current policies and procedures and analyzing the physical security of the business. Once we complete our analysis we create a plan of preparation that includes warning systems and evacuation procedures. We then train the personnel on how to implement the plan and how to work with the law enforcement community for quick response to threats. Once the new systems are in place, we re-evaluate for effectiveness.
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Compliance Consulting:
FCIS will help decrease your client’s liability.
In the aftermath of heightened security risks, workplace violence incidents and negligent hiring lawsuits, employers have turned to background screening for peace of mind and a way to decrease liability. Employers are using criminal court records, driving records and other consumer reports to hire safe, honest and qualified employees.
However, in this age of increased surveillance and security, applicant rights and the laws protecting individual freedoms could easily be forgotten. Through our FCRA Consulting, we help employers balance their need-to-know about applicants’ backgrounds while simultaneously upholding individuals’ rights. We teach employers how the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) can affect them and what they need to do to stay in compliance.
FCIS is FCRA certified. We coordinate with you and your client. We will consult with your client concerning the FCRA. We ensure the employer provides a notification to the applicant, a copy of the FTC rules, that your client is in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), that I-9’s are verified, that the terrorist watch list is checked and that an international background investigation is conducted.
Background Checks/Investigations:
FCIS will help you avoid “surprises” about a witness or an expert.
We can provide you basic background checks or a comprehensive background investigation that will provide information about a witness, defendant, or a potential expert. Our background investigation provides you with detailed historical, financial and professional information. This will help you to ascertain the credibility of a witness, establish history of previous litigation, identify possible impeachment issues early and determine the accuracy of an expert’s curriculum vitae, and document the viability of a defendant corporation.
Included in our background investigations are:
- Investigative research
- Identification of neighbors, associates and relatives
- Criminal history check
- Civil litigation check
- Asset check
- Develop and interview independent witnesses
- Police reports on any incidents
- Certified copies of judgments and dispositions
- Probable cause affidavits to provide you background on the exact nature of the charges against the listed witness
- Certified copies of criminal convictions from local and out-of-state jurisdictions
A summary report is provided with the obtained court documents so you can easily review the cases in which the witness was involved.
Intellectual Property:
FCIS can reduce your losses of intellectual property theft.
Your ideas are often your most valuable product, and the most likely to be stolen. With our investigative expertise and outstanding law enforcement contacts, we can significantly reduce the loss of your trademarks and brand identity. We provide the information you need to combat and defeat intellectual property theft.
Counterfeit product investigation
Working with both local and federal law enforcement agencies, FCIS has been helping companies maintain the integrity of one of their most valuable assets: their good name and reputation. We work cases involving counterfeiting, piracy, or infringement. We have investigated the manufacturing and sale of counterfeit luxury goods. Working to solve this most serious crime against businesses, FCIS is able to build a rock-solid case against the counterfeiter. The goal of our investigations is to identify the counterfeiter, document sales, and work up the ladder to wholesalers and manufacturers. As part of the solution to the counterfeiting problem, FCIS will not only put the counterfeiter out of business, but bring relief to you in the form of court-ordered restitution.
Counterfeit product enforcement
Once the counterfeiter is identified, and proof is established that he is knowingly selling counterfeit goods, the next step is enforcement of the brand owner’s rights. This may include effecting search warrants with law enforcement, working with attorneys for ex-parte civil seizure orders, or serving cease and desist letters with a goal towards voluntary surrender of infringing or counterfeit goods. We are experienced in all facets of enforcement and have knowledge for the best solution. We have relationships with local and federal law enforcement for referral of cases for criminal prosecution. We can greatly reduce the amount of counterfeited product.
Surveillance/GPS Tracking/Counter Surveillance:
FCIS will provide you insight into occurring activities.
We have conducted surveillances on sophisticated criminal organizations and our experience is equal to none. We understand counter-surveillance measures and have participated in many cases. We can aid your client in dealing with threats of workplace violence, theft and substance abuse by obtaining factual evidence by conducting discreet surveillance operations on both video and digital still photographs. We also employ GPS tracking devices whenever legally permitted.
We pay special attention to all state and federal statutory regulations, as well as private sector liability for unlawful surveillance (civil and criminal liability.) We are careful not to violate anyone’s "reasonable expectation of privacy."
We provide a detailed, well-written, timely report, along with digital still photographs and video reproductions acquired depicting notable events upon the completion of the surveillance.
We are available to be present at depositions with documented surveillance evidence that was obtained in the field. We will appear for court testimony upon request/subpoena.
Witness Interviews:
FCIS provides you clarification of witnesses’ observations prior to deposition/testimony.
Interviewing is an art. FCIS has mastered the art of interviewing. We will contact and interview witnesses. This will provide you impartial, objective information. These statements will be used to evaluate the witness’ knowledge of the events and the value of their testimony.
Witness Locates:
FCIS will locate witnesses to strengthen your case.
We know it’s necessary to effectively locate witnesses who may provide information to the successful results of your case. We have the expertise and professional contacts to locate difficult witnesses.
Due Dilligence
FCIS will help protect your client.
FCIS helps you protect your client from becoming a victim of fraud and from getting involved with unethical potential business partners. We will identify if potential business partners are involved in civil litigation cases, bankruptcy, or are unscrupulous potential partners or members of criminal group.We will conduct top-quality due diligence to help you protect your client.
Our Due Diligence Service Includes:
- Asset Search
- Business Credit Report
- Business License Verification
- Civil Judgment Search
- Corporate Records Search
- County Specific Civil Record Search
- County Specific Criminal Record Hand Search
- Credit Report
- Driver's History Search
- Federal Civil Record Search
- Federal Criminal Record Search
- Media Survey (Research)
- Criminal Record Database Search
- Real Property Ownership Records
- Social Security Number Trace
- Social Security Number Verification
- Tax Lien Search
- Vehicle Registration Records Search
- Financial Record Review
Polygraph Examination:
FCIS will help you to learn who is credible.
We know that the effective use of a polygraph can assist in making a decision on the credibility of a witness and assist in workplace investigations.
We will:
- Conduct a preliminary assessment of the information provided by the client
- Interview the client regarding the allegations
- Develop questions to be asked
- Conduct a polygraph examination
- Provide a detailed report of the outcome of the polygraph examination
Handwriting analysis:
FCIS will help you know if your client authored the document in question.
We will conduct an independent review of handwriting analysis done by law enforcement and other experts to learn if there are any discrepancies.