If you suspect your employees are stealing time, money, product, or other illegal activity, your intuition is probably correct. But you need tangible, court-admissible evidence.
Our team of expert private investigators is trained to uncover the truth through interviews & interrogation, financial investigation, information systems review, and surveillance.
We have used Martin Investigative Services for three decades. Their work is exemplary; reports are perfect and their testimony is very professional, with great judge and jury appeal. We will not use anyone else for our investigations.
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In our experience, management often does not realize the magnitude of the problems they have until a comprehensive, third-party review takes place.
Sometimes, multiple employees collude to perpetrate fraud against the company, a situation that clearly requires swift and aggressive action.
Our interview and interrogation services are highly effective at getting information, evidence and confessions.
We can also deploy legal video surveillance equipment at your location to develop tangible, irrefutable, and court-admissible proof of wrongdoing by your employees.
Our experts address the specific issues facing your company via comprehensive interviews, interrogation and data analysis.
Our trained consultants are interrogation experts and can quickly identify the facts and corroborate allegations.
We provide you with the facts surrounding the situation, arm you with options for dealing with offending employees, and provide advice on how to improve business operations to prevent recurrence.
Our involvement in the process can help you avoid business interruptions, negative publicity, personal embarrassment, and costly legal fees.
Starting the process with fact-finding and documentation is usually more effective from both a cost and results perspective than using a team of lawyers.
In our experience, many HR managers are not well-suited for potentially confrontational and/or embarrassing interactions with senior-level employees and practice avoidance instead of seeking resolution.
Our consultants will assist you by interviewing the parties involved to fully understand the personalities and issues at hand and then work with your company to resolve these issues internally in a discreet and professional manner.
All of our private investigators are former Supervisory Federal agents.
In many cases, we can find out who the bad employees are in under 20 minutes.
Our experienced investigators gather court-admissible evidence that can make all the difference in a trial.
Our friendly staff can help with your issue, or point you in the right direction. The consult is free and confidential.
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Do you think your employees are stealing from you? Do you suspect them of illegal activities at work? Are they sleeping on the job?
There is a relatively simple solution to your problem: Our interrogation and interview services get results quickly. All information gathered is court-admissible.
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, corporate espionage is commonplace.
We offer full investigations that maintain the integrity of your business security, and include bug sweeps, surveillance, interrogations of employees, and more.
Former Federal agents review your security access, alarms, camera systems, security procedures, policies, and interview personnel.
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Most companies are victims of fraud every day. We find and eliminate employment fraud – including employee theft, embezzlement and forgery.
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We deploy legal video surveillance equipment at client locations to develop tangible and irrefutable proof of wrongdoing by employees at work.
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Our friendly staff can help with your issue, or point you in the right direction. The consult is free and confidential.
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A prominent Newport Beach attorney representing a large beer manufacturer contacted us. We met with the attorney and the company executives at their corporate headquarters.
The company had a problem: large amounts of inventory were simply missing. They had a certain amount of product on hand, but their internal accounting told them they should have more money.
Our private investigators provided employee surveillance, and later, in-depth interviews and interrogations of employees.
We quickly discovered a number of employees were smuggling product out of the factory. The results from this investigation were handed to the District Attorney. As a result of our investigation, 17 people were arrested, prosecuted and served jail time.
A Human Resources Director called us at the direction of the Chairman of the Board and informed us that the President was known to be having an affair with a subordinate. Notwithstanding the fact that the executive was married, company policy expressly prohibited such office relationships. The clients also determined that there was a significant risk of legal action by the female against the company and the executive if and when the relationship eventually became public.
Although the affair was routinely known and discussed within the company, the Chairman had no hard evidence to support termination of the employees for violating company policy.
We were engaged to operate a ten-day surveillance, which soon caught both subjects in compromising positions and places on videotape.
After presenting our findings to the corporate board, we discussed strategic options to resolve the situation. Our goal? To minimize the risk of a lawsuit from either party. The board agreed that we should manage the termination process for both employees in a discreet and confidential manner using the video evidence as justification. This enabled the client’s Human Resources department to maintain a level of separation from the process to minimize legal risk while effectively bringing the situation to a close.
It happens at virtually every business.
Sometimes it’s nothing more than a missing stapler or a box of paperclips – items many employers would assume have been misplaced.
But employee theft can ramp up quickly.
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In these recession times, people do bad things. About 80% of employees are currently stealing something. They steal time, product or money from their employers who then call us to (find) the bad guys.
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An alleged crime ring was busted this week in connection with what police say was the theft of $15,000 worth of toy loot, mostly Legos. “Legos are like gold,” Thomas Martin, who runs a private investigative service in southern California, told ABC News today. “Every child wants them; they last forever and are passed down through generations.”
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The majority of crimes against businesses are committed by their own employees, according to a lead private investigator and former federal agent in the U.S.
Thomas Martin, president of Martin Investigative Services and author of the soon-to-be-released book, Seeing Life through Private Eyes: Secrets from America’s Top Investigator to Living Safer, Smarter, and Saner, said his company’s investigations show 75 per cent of workplaces with 100 employees or more are victimized by employee theft.
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It has been my pleasure to work with Martin Investigative Services over the past 30 plus years on many investigations as well as other security related matters. When I need answers and I need them fast I know that a simple call will get me answers that are succinct, current and coming from a supremely knowledgeable source.
I have known Tom Martin since 1984. I, as well as our company, have used Tom’s services over 30 years, personal as well as business. We have never been disappointed! Tom does what he says and I believe he is the BEST there is.
Martin Investigative Services is truly one of the best run organizations we have worked with. Fair, efficient and professional. Tom Martin in particular exudes confidence and experience and isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. That’s something we can rely on.
I am proud to state that I have exclusively used the professional services of Tom Martin and his firm for more than 20 years. Whenever the need arises for a private investigator, the only name that I consider for my clients is Tom. In my 40 year career as a family lawyer, I recognized the importance of professional investigators. Unfortunately, many of the investigators that I have encountered have not satisfied the professional standard that I expect. I have utilized the firm in some very delicate and discrete investigations and situations requiring a strong security presence. In every engagement, both my clients and myself have been completely satisfied. I have I have no reservations in endorsing Tom and his firm for any investigative assignments.
Thomas G. Martin is a private investigator who is highly regarded and widely used by attorneys and other clients in Orange County and nationwide.
I have known Tom Martin and used Martin Investigative Services for over a decade. They have been our exclusive resource for all our corporate investigative work and have never let us down once in all those years. Their work has always been of the highest professional level.
I have no reservations whatsoever in endorsing Mr. Martin and his firm. Their service to us has always reflected the highest integrity and quality and we continue to rely on Tom with the utmost confidence.
I’ve represented individuals and businesses (international and local) for close to fifty years, and I’ve called on Martin Investigative Services more times than I can count, often on a rush basis, for help throughout the world, on a number of different types of assignments. I’ve never been disappointed. I’ve always received swift, cost-effective and USEFUL information, which has wound up “saving the bacon” of our clients and making us shine in their eyes. I recommend them without any reservation.
Successful people know that to be the best, you model the best. I cannot recommend Martin PI any higher! In a five minute conversation with experienced people you can save thousands by bypassing sales types. They do this by cutting directly to the heart based on years and years of passionate pursuit of best practices and adding massive value to their clients. They are an invaluable part of my team and Tom is my most valued mentor!
We have used Martin Investigative Services for three decades. Their work is exemplary; reports are perfect and their testimony is very professional, with great judge and jury appeal. We will not use anyone else for our investigations.
I have used Thomas Martin’s services for many years and have found his work to be of the highest standards. He gets the job done quickly, efficiently and reliably. He is aware of the law and always submits quality reports. I highly recommend Martin Investigative Services to any attorney, business or individual who is in need of a professional investigator.
My partner and I have utilized the services of Martin Investigative Services for in excess of 15 years. The services provided have ranged from simple background checks to covert surveillance and investigations into corporate malfeasance/conversion/theft of assets.
I have found Martin’s investigators conscientious, qualified, and most important of all, very credible to triers of fact when their testimony was necessary. Critical to any busy trial attorney is time. I have also found that upon turning an assignment over to Martin Investigative Services, I do not have to micromanage the assignment. It is done promptly and efficiently, with an eye toward the financial resources and capabilities of the client.
I have known Tom Martin and used his services for many years. I trust him with the most challenging investigative tasks.
Professional and efficient, he and his staff leave no stone unturned to get the job done.
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