Foreword
This book is set out as a collection of fascinating case studies and is Peter Tickner’s second book about tackling fraud and corruption in the workplace. It is an area where Peter has a particular expertise and lifelong interest, for which anyone who has ever met Peter or worked with him can vouch. If you enjoyed and learnt from Peter’s first book on fraud, you’ll certainly gain from this, his second book. If you haven’t yet read Peter’s first fraud book, then this one will give a good idea of just what you’ve missed out on so far, even though this is self-contained and doesn’t need to be read in conjunction with the first fraud book, which concentrated on how to be a successful fraud investigator. This book is much more about what actually happened in a number of significant frauds and the investigations that followed, with Peter’s frank analysis and views on the outcomes of each case.
I have known Peter for a number of years, since we first met when I was the Borough Commander at Lambeth and Peter was the Met’s civilian Director of Internal Audit. Police senior management recruited Peter from central government to stop the rot after the Met suffered an embarrassing £5 million internal fraud, one of the cases that Peter has now covered in depth in this book.
Peter was the one member of the civil staff who seemed to strike fear into some of my senior police colleagues, through his impartiality and indifference to their rank or status. If they had anything to hide, either ...
