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Training and Setting Standards for Fraud Investigators (From Fraud Prevention and Control, P 1-13, 2000, Australian Institute of Criminology -- See NCJ-186569)

NCJ Number
186579
Author(s)
Peter Roberts
Date Published
January 2001
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This paper on training for fraud investigation, prevention, and detection in Australia focuses on setting competency standards and training based on these standards.
Abstract
The author first examines the current competency standards that are relevant to fraud, drawing conclusions about their adequacy. This involves a cursory look at training and education in the workplace and the structure of the vocational and educational training system in Australia. The paper then turns to a discussion of how the fraud-control competencies were developed within the aforementioned structure and the advantages and disadvantages of locating fraud training within this structure. Next, some comments are offered about the role of higher education in vocational and educational training for fraud investigation, prevention, and detection. The paper concludes with an assessment of the current state of the standards and training in fraud control. The author advises that the preparation and delivery of training courses in fraud investigation, prevention, and detection have not been completed. This is due to the subsuming of the competency standards in an inappropriate training package and to delays by the Commonwealth in promulgating a clear policy statement regarding where the competency standards fit in the Commonwealth's fraud control policy.