Our Undercover Program has been very successful. Our undercover investigators are selected for their varied backgrounds and interests in order to adjust to the specific needs of our clients. The majority of them are college graduates and have chosen loss prevention and security as their career. These investigators work as regular employees and usually go through the normal hiring procedures in order to avoid any suspicion from within your organization.

They are alert to any irregularities such as theft, drug use, mismanagement, and any variation from company policies, procedures, and norms. Drug use has become a major problem in companies today. Employees caught up in substance abuse tend to be absent from the job up to 16 times more often, claim 3 times as many sickness benefits, and file 5 times as many workers' compensation claims.

It is impossible to place a price tag on the cost incurred by low morale and decision making due to impaired judgement as a result of substance abuse. Additionally, it is difficult for an organization to project the financial loss from pilfering, high turnover, recruitment, and training.

There is no way to determine the actual loss due to undetected or untreated substance abuse. To dismiss all of these as "the cost of doing business" is to accept a norm that does not have to and should not be accepted. Drug, alcohol, and theft problems do not get better if left untreated.