White Collar Crime Unit
The White Collar Crime Unit investigates cases that encompass a broad spectrum of investigations classified as fraud. Fraud includes forgery, embezzlement, extortion, financial transaction card offenses, and computer-related crimes.
Investigators from the White Collar Crime Unit attend in-depth training sponsored by the Investigation Training Institute each year. This training consists of comprehensive courses aimed at detecting fraud, gathering evidence, and tracing illegal proceeds. They also attend training sponsored by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. This association, a non-profit international organization, is dedicated to the free exchange of information among credit issuers and financial investigators, assisting both groups in combating the current trends of growth and sophistication which is prevalent in modern financial crime.
During 1999, the Unit sponsored and directed the Wasatch Front Check Investigators' Association. This group of investigative professionals from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as industry fraud investigators, meets monthly in a cooperative effort to solve and prevent fraudulent activity throughout northern Utah.