Table 2
Reasons for reporting and not reporting fraud to police
by industry, Canada, 2008
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| Industry | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | Banking | Health and property insurance | |
| percent | |||
| Reasons why the police are contacted | |||
| Seriousness: significant losses | 61 | 92 | 76 |
| To try to recover losses | 58 | 65 | 23 |
| Company policy | 48 | 62 | 24 |
| To pursue criminal charges | 41 | 86 | 57 E |
| Sense of duty | 34 | 25 | 28 |
| Seriousness: suspicion of links to organized crime | 20 | 86 | 44 E |
| Satisfactory experience with police response in the past | 8 | 38 | 9 |
| Other 1 | 6 | 21 | F |
| Advised by someone to do so | 4 | F | F |
| Reasons why the police are NOT contacted | |||
| Incident too minor | 56 | 84 | 34 |
| Don't think police can do anything | 26 | 66 | 20 |
| Dealt with another way | 19 | 26 | 33 |
| Unsatisfactory experience with police response in the past | 19 | 31 | 29 E |
| Losses recovered through other means | 18 | 60 | 10 |
| Unsatisfactory experience with criminal courts in the past | 18 | 28 | 19 E |
| Resources required to pursue criminal charges outweigh losses | 15 | 59 | 27 |
| Incident did not exceed business' risk tolerance | 10 | 28 | 13 |
| Other 2 | 2 | 20 | F |
| Fear of negative publicity | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Company policy | 1 | 17 | F |
| Fear of litigation | 1 | F | 10 |
Includes reasons such as: because the incident
could be legally prosecuted; to comply with insurance requirements; reporting
varies based on the type of fraud.
Includes reasons such as: insufficient evidence;
and reporting varies based on the type of fraud.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Survey of Fraud Against Businesses, 2007/2008.
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