A romantic trio from Vermont has pleaded guilty to arson charges after attempting insurance fraud. Ralph Brown, Jr., 41, of Bennington, pleaded guilty to second degree arson for torching the house in which he, his wife, and her boyfriend lived in. The state agreed to reduce a first degree arson charge Brown faced and drop [...]

Executive Summary The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), in collaboration with Alliant International University (Alliant), coordinated a return-on-investment study of private sector pre-employment background investigations. Similar endeavours by many organizations have fallen short of providing measurable empirical data that can be used as a strong argument for why companies conduct certain practices. While benchmarking is [...]

Typically when a hiring a person that will be driving a company owned vehicle a provincial driver abstract should be requested and reviewed at the point of hire. Today, it is just too risky to hand over the keys to a new employee not knowing their driving history. Liability insurance is always on the rise [...]

As a partner in a professional background screening company I believe in sound documents that reflect an individual’s traits like a criminal record search, credit report or an employment reference.  It was not until one day several years ago, a client called me and asked if we did physiological assessments. We did not. But now [...]

Did you know that you can obtain a criminal background search on any potential new hire, transfer, high risk security personnel or for a required program such as Customs Trade Partners Against Terrorism program, C-TPAT. National criminal records in Canada are acquired though CPIC (Canadian Police Information Center). This massive database which is managed by [...]