ABSTRACT
Private internal investigations by fraud examiners represent a privatization of law enforcement with many problematic issues as documented in this book. Chapter 1 presented a number of issues in terms of privatizing governmental services, private legal enforcement flexibility, public criminal justice system, private fraud examiners’ legitimacy, and differences between cognitive, normative, and pragmatic legitimacy. In this chapter, we return to the core topic of privatization of law enforcement in terms of internal investigations by fraud examiners. This chapter suggests a number of guidelines in the form of principles for private policing when it comes to internal investigations by fraud examiners. We present principles regarding investigation initiation and preparation, process and work, outcome and results, and consequences and value.
