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Victor Stephens

CAREER HISTORY

 

 

March 1996- to Date Self Employed- Criminal Private and Commercial Investigations and Business Consultant
(www-cpcinvestigations.co.uk)

Key Achievements

  • Established CPC investigative consultancy core client relationship with GRE Insurance-Personal Injury Claims-Motor Accident-Theft.
  • Roberts & Greene Insurance Adjusters ­Motor accident-theft-motor insurance credit insurance. Motor Insurance Board work.
  • Gained Qualification of Certified Fraud Examiner www.acfeuk.co.uk
  • Security Consultant concerning fine art movements Japan to UK.
  • Qualified as a Business Consultant then Fellow in the International Institute of Independent Business. www.iib.ws
  • Detected and or advised companies on -Long Firm-Due Diligence-employee fraud.
    Saudi Arabian Tractor Agency and London Offices. Rag Trade Fraud £750,000.
  • Fraud Investigation for Major Insurance Company ­ Agency Fraud on £18 million business.

 

Senior Security Specialist ­ W.H. Smith Plc 1991-1995

  • Enhancement of security services reputation by management of dedicated security policy in 50 units in London region reducing theft and false accounting.
  • Advised and implemented security strategy in fragmented offices supplies business to achieve required corporate standard.
  • Perfected security strategy to monitor and reduce high shrinkage rate in new 50 terminal automated express stationary distribution warehouses.
  • Instigated CID investigation into large scale customer fraud using electronically altered credit cards. Offender identified in losses exceeding £1,000,000 and a new counter measures adopted as a result.

 

Carratu International Limited(Corporate Investigations) 1990-91

Key Achievements

  • Gained practical ability in intellectual property investigations
  • Investigated international market share analysis in fossil fuel power stations production and maintenance.
  • Corporate Fraud Investigations-Caterpillar Tractor.
  • Carried out several pre-sue asset investigations for new international clients.
    Team Player in various surveillance operations.

Investigating Officer- Department of Trade and Industry1986-1990

  • Company Fraud Investigations ­Insolvency
  • Investigated fraudulent trading and theft offences etc presented cases Crown Court
  • Trained in various aspects of simplification of presentation of complex fraud evidence (Roskill Report recommendations)
  • Attended initial year of LLB degree course in Contract, English Legal System and
    Criminal Law at Ealing Law Centre.

Royal Military Police -Special Investigation Branch 1963-1985

  • Obtained early recognition of investigative ability by 1969
    Selected to permanent promotion SIB investigating serious crime
    and special investigations.
  • Gained specialist skills-Forensic examination-Photography-Drug Squad.
  • Seconded to CID N. Ireland- 2 years-Regional CID R Div & Murder Squad.
    Anti-terrorist investigation teams.
  • Cyprus-Civil Police liaision-Eoka B Terrorist Arrests
  • Managed Investigation Teams in Germany and England.
    and uniform teams in Belize Central America.
  • Solved Murder of Taxi Driver
  • Customs Liaison ­ post Falklands War-Portsmouth-Marchwood Military Ports.
  • Training Sandhurst Military Academy-Drug Abuse Presentations to Officer Cadets.

Secondary Education and Training1972-75 Detectives and SOCO Training Royal Military Police.
1975 ­ Advanced Army Education-Management-Accounting, Communications...
1981- Senior Detectives Course at MPDTS Hendon (Scotland Yard|)
1985- Diploma in Security Management- Plymouth Technical College.
1996 Leicester University Fraud Detection Course
1998 Qualified as Business Consultant-International Institute of Independent Business. Fellow 2002.
2003-Accredited as Certified Fraud Examiner ­Training in Fraud Investigation in Proceeds of Crime Act-Money Laundering- RIPA ­Corporate Fraud Diligence-Data Mining-Due Diligence.

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