Forensic Services
As forensic services are called special services in the field of detection and investigation of criminal offenses.
The term comes from the Anglo-Saxon language area and describes criminal services such as the investigation of crime scenes , fiber traces , and the like.
The term is now also used in German-speaking countries. Auditing firms and insolvency management companies have been running so-called forensic services departments for several years in addition to their traditional business areas (see, for example, the publication: "Tatort Deutschland - Wirtschaftskriminalität in Deutschland 2016", KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Deutschland).
Forensic services teams consist of, for example:
- Accountants
- Tax advisors
- Accountants
- former prosecutors
- former detectives
- Controllers
- Business lawyers
- Lawyers with a focus on white collar crime and corporate law
In addition, experts for certain areas of life (civil engineers, computer engineers, textile engineers and so on) are brought in for the area of life concerned.
Many companies prefer a forensic services team to working with the public prosecutor and the criminal police because they do not want to get into the gossip by exposing corruption, breach of trust and fraud by employees of their company, which could have undesirable consequences for the development of the share price .
While private detectives do not need to have any special training, the above-mentioned professionals with their respective specific experience as a permanent team (e.g. a large auditing company) or as an ad hoc team (which, for example, is put together by a lawyer specializing in white-collar crime), are professionally qualified and often even more efficient than the overloaded authorities.
Individual evidence
- ^ FBI Handbook of Forensic Services . Federal Bureau of Investigation. Quantico, Virginia . ISBN 0-932115-18-7 .
- ^ Tatort Deutschland - White-collar crime in Germany 2016. KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, accessed on March 29, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Christian Salewski: Detectives in pinstripes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB) Zeit Campus, February 1, 2010, accessed on March 12, 2013
