Polygraph Investigative Services Blog:
Security has been heightened since the September 11 attack. Despite the security measures in place, infiltration and acts of sabotage by the adversaries continue with no end in sight. The killings of 12 army personnel at Fort Hood, Texas (CNN report dated 7 November 2009) and 7 CIA and one Jordanian operatives at the hands of a terrorist double agent at a US base in Khost, Afghanistan (CNN report dated 5 January 2010 and another CNN report dated 9 Jan 2010 entitled "CIA 'suicide bomber' vows revenge in new video"), and the botched attack on an airliner bound for Detroit (CNN report dated 27 December 2009) continues to highlight the increased sophistication of the adversaries and the limitations of intelligence gathering and "connecting the dots".
The greater use of the friendly polygraph in personnel screening as a complement to other methods, would have increased the effectiveness many fold in pre-empting such incidents. It is even more compelling now for organisations, which are potential targets to consider polygraph screening to guard against infiltration or sabotage.
TIP: The greatest fear of a double agent or someone on a suicide mission is to be asked to take a polygraph test. Watch out, if he or she refuses to take a polygraph test. Where other methods failed, in less than 2 hours, a competent polygraph examiner stands an excellent chance of catching him or her.
Out experts teach not only single issue confirmatory tests using standard Comparison Questions Techniques but also investigative tests which helps uncover plans, accomplices, location of assets etc.
Latest News: Employee Theft Case Uncovered From Polygraph Test
Polygraph Investigative Services recently helped a retail convenient chain store here in Singapore identify through a routine polygraph screening test, a Store Manager who stole $11K in the last one year. He confessed at our office and was referred to the Police. He pleaded guilty in Court and agreed to make full restitution. The store owner knew him as a reliable manager before the polygraph test. There was a security camera in the store but it can only do so much. The investigative polygraph tests also showed that the Manager regularly paid a female colleague to silence her. She also confessed during her polygraph test and was dismissed from her job and sent back to her home country. For more actual cases solved, please see below.
Latest News as of 20 May 2010: Terrorists Target Orchard MRT
Following the uncovering of a terrorist training camp in Aceh, Indonesia recently, investigators in Indonesia have found a map with Singapore's busy Orchard MRT Station circled in Red as well as several thousand Malaysian Ringgit (dollars). News reports have indicated the possibility of terrorist cells operating in Singapore and Malaysia. Recently, the Malaysian Police also revealed that JI Leader Mas Selamat, who escaped from Singapore's Whitley Road Detention Centre and captured in Malaysia, had planned to to carry out terrorist attack in Singapore. Terrorist incidents around the world have pointed to the fact that they are carried out with support from home grown cells. This is certainly a timely wake-up call. So be on guard and be prepared!
Security Breach At MRT Depot
On the night of 16 May 2010 or early the next morning, an MRT train parked in a depot was hit with garish graffiti in a serious security breach in a restricted area in Singapore. The vandals apparently sneaked into the sprawling depot at Changi, despite an array of barriers, including fences topped with barbed wire. They cut a hole in the fence to gain access. Once inside, they spray-painted elaborate graffiti on one side of a train, across one carriage. The train ran for 2 days in full view of commuters for 2 days before the police were informed after someone posted it on Youtube. On 25 May 2010 a Swiss national was arrested and charged. Another British national, believed to be an accomplice is still at large. This incident once again reminds us that the security system in place can only do so much; it is the humans that are behind the system that counts.
The 2005 London Tube bombing, the 2009 planned bombing of the New York subway, the 2006 Mumbai train bombing and the 7 terrorist attacks of the Moscow Metro between 1996 and 2010 should serve as reminders to take MRT security seriously.
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