When does a company or organisation have a right or duty to investigate a criminal allegation?

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Churchlawtonblue

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If a criminal allegation was made against members of staff in most companies, I believe most employers would hand the investigation over to the police, perhaps after a very cursory look at the seriousness of any allegation ?

As an employer I wouldn't expect to investigate such issues myself.

Why are large organisations allowed to,
or infact want to, investigate criminal allegations with their staff ? Surely such allegations should be immediately handed to the police to ensure correct procedures are followed and evidence is not disturbed or lost.
 
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I would imagine it depends what the crime was. Fiddling their expenses the company will likely refer it to the police after sacking them - unless they are an MP then they’ll get bumped up to the House of Lords.

If it’s something like inappropriate sexual conduct then it’s for the company to investigate and sack if guilty but I doubt it’s for the company to notify the police, that would be the victims choice (assuming not a minor).
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
Put them on gardening leave until it’s over then sack them when it is. If they’re guilty that is.
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IF and I say IF the presenter has literally been caught with his pants down breaking the law he should be sacked now by someone with the set of balls needed.

Alleged? when they are supposed to have pics if him doing it :)
 
If I had a complaint about possible illegal activity involving any of my family my first port of call would be plod and not the employer or a newspaper.


Of course plod or the employer won’t me pay for the information…

regarding the OP when I was in teaching as soon as we had a sniff of any child abuse of any description we had to report it to the social services who picked it up and investigated it and we were then forbidden to do any further investigation ourselves on the grounds we could risk compromising any future legal action.
 
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Does City coming to an arrangement with Liverpool over the hacking incident come under this category?

I had a similar incident in work before I retired. Someone gave me a spreadsheet with the personal details including salaries of about 300 employees. It was related to a job I was doing. When I pointed this out to HR, they said it was a breach of DP and needed investigation. That's the last I heard of it. I often wonder if I should go back to them and ask what the outcome was.
 
If you are stealing course they investigate, SME or large, up to them whether they get police involved.
 
metalblue said:
I would imagine it depends what the crime was. Fiddling their expenses the company will likely refer it to the police after sacking them - unless they are an MP then they’ll get bumped up to the House of Lords.

If it’s something like inappropriate sexual conduct then it’s for the company to investigate and sack if guilty but I doubt it’s for the company to notify the police, that would be the victims choice (assuming not a minor).
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Seems a very messed up process to me. I would just call the police in any serious allegation.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Seems a very messed up process to me. I would just call the police in any serious allegation.
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Unless you're an organisation more interesting in stopping the damage to your corporations reputation than the feelings/needs of the victim?

Nothing says "FUCK YOU" more than a good old BBC cover-up :)
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Seems a very messed up process to me. I would just call the police in any serious allegation.
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The victim surely has the right to decide to press charges or not?

Otherwise you (the company) become judge and jury. Let’s say you find in the accused favour so you don’t notify the police…doesn’t mean the police would agree with you.
 
Sadly some corporations will "ignore" their star performers misdemeanors as cash is king to them. I've witnessed that personally in the past with a "handsy" director who "got results"

They only got rid when he used the company credit card to buy a car thus proving my point.
 
metalblue said:
The victim surely has the right to decide to press charges or not?

Otherwise you (the company) become judge and jury. Let’s say you find in the accused favour so you don’t notify the police…doesn’t mean the police would agree with you.
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The right to not press charges is a myth.
So the prosecution is out of your hands.
But you can then refuse to give evidence…

Greenwood says hi…
 
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