Crutchfield Investigators offers a vital service to companies designed to upgrade the quality of your work force. As statistics show, crime in the work place is at all time high. CII has implemented a system quite simple to utilize which can limit the risks of employee theft, violence, and drug usage.

Unlike the many other techniques available to employee screening, criminal background investigation has proven to be the most efficient, effective and legal way of conducting a pre-employment search through public records.

Below are three common, yet controversial pre-employment screenings.

1. POLYGRAPH TESTING

• No longer legal for pre-employment screening in the public sector.

• Drug testing can determine the use of "most" drug activity, however this test implements a fundamental flaw; Temporary Abstinence! Drug testing currently suffers from an accuracy problem. Recent products available at local drug stores cannot only alter a drug test, but can effectively flush the individuals urinary and circulatory system of all toxins within two hours.

• California Court of Appeals recently ruled that a "Job Applicant" has the same privacy rights as employees under the California Constitution and cannot be screened out by such "invasive Psychological Tests."