The ‘frauditor’ at work

Peter Tickner is a freelance consultant, fraud investigator and academic as wellas the author of a number of books on fraud investigation. He was director ofinternal audit for the Metropolitan Police Service in the UK from 1995 to 2009.He has recently successfully completed a doctorate at the University ofPortsmouth’s Institute of Criminal Justice Studies around his methodology forinvestigating fraud in the public sector.

A forensic internal audit function is acost-effective alternative to the policing of internal and contractor fraud inthe public sector, argues Peter Tickner. In the second of two articles, heexplains how this played out at the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police Servicein the case of some morally lax linguists.