Investigation
Services General & Observation Investigations
AFS Investigators
have the ability to undertake any investigation
ranging from a minor motor vehicle collision
to a protracted fraud investigation. We are
able to investigate any matter that requires
some formal report for either senior management,
a disciplinary hearing, the Administrative
Appeals Tribunal, the Merit Protection and
Review Authority through to full criminal
court
proceedings.
AFS is currently providing services to both observations
and criminal brief presentations. The material that
is gathered, collated, and presented to the client
is being examined by their legal department and presented
directly to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
This is a unique feature that we believe gives AFS
a leading edge in the investigations field. These briefs
of evidence have and are currently before the ACT Criminal
Justice System and have resulted in a number of convictions.
AFS has a vast client base extending from the private
sector to Government Agencies.
All investigators have, as a minimum qualification,
Certificate IV Investigations, in accordance with the
Commonwealth Law Enforcement Board requirements. Our
investigators provide a complementary service to any
investigation unit and we have undertaken a number
of internal investigations for a government business
enterprise which have been presented to the Industrial
Relations Commission, as well as senior management,
resulting in a successfully negotiated outcome.
General
Investigations:
• Protracted intricate and sensitive
matters
• Fraud investigations
• Insurance investigations
• General criminal investigations
• Internal investigations / staff disciplinary
matters
• Compliance investigations
• Brief preparation
• Security risk management |
Observation Investigations:
• Covert physical observations
• Electronic observations
• Technical assistance to investigations
• Corporate integrity investigations
• Electronic counter measures |
Forensic Investigations
The Company has the services
of an internationally accepted expert who
has 25 years of experience in materials
science,
generally specialising in firearms and ballistics,
ammunition and explosives and fire investigations.
He is an accepted expert in superior courts
throughout Australia and New Zealand.
• Firearm, ballistic examination
• Crime Scene Interpretation
• Forensic Investigations
• Fire and Explosive Investigations
• Materials and Component Failure Analysis
AFS also has the services of a consultant
who has both a Masters Degree and a Doctorate
of Philosophy in Linguistics,
and has been working in Forensic Phonetics and Forensic
Linguistics for almost nine years. During this
time she has prepared evidence for approximately 500
cases, and has appeared as an expert witness in courts
at all levels, tribunals and a Royal Commission.
• Speaker identification
• Transcription and transcript verification /
correction
• Disputed utterances
• Interpretation of linguistic meaning
• Authorship
• Background sound analysis
• Text analysis (e.g. for signs of "scripting",
plagiarism etc)
• Speaker profiling
• Tape enhancement and authentication
• Speaker data bases (and other corporate security
provisions)
• Voice line-ups
Australian
Forensic Services
(02) 6162 1777 |
