SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATIVE Increase Your Profits With Investigative Locksmithing Tom Resciniti Demont explains how joining IAIL and exploring the forensic locksmith field can enhance your business offerings. your profitability by illegal means, and that’s where we the professional lock inves- tigator sees profitability in investigations. You may think that 90% of car arsons are done by the car owner, but this is totally W 14 wrong! Ninety percent of car fires are accidental in nature, caused by electrical, fuel or mechanical failures. Many car fires have the potential to be arson in nature, with fraudulent probability due to reasons such as financial motive, mechanical problems, loss of employment or social issues such as divorce. In most instances, the ignition lock cylinder — which normally will fall to the floor from the column due to melting of the lock alloy composition — can be recovered, as it’s protected by other debris that may fall on top of the melted lock cylinder, protecting it from further decomposition. Using layering techniques, the forensic locksmith may be able to recover the actual lock as evidence and retain it for further examination and analysis. In certain year, make and model vehicles, the vehicle computer or vehicle keys can retain memory with such facts as the mileage and date the last time the key was used, and the last key used in the lock prior to the theſt. Auto investigations are a large part of the forensic locksmith’s activities, but they aren’t the only investigations they conduct. Number two would be safe and vault inspections. The best ones are when someone opens the safe with the combination, removes what they want and then with the door in the open position they beat the dial and handle off the door! Ninety-nine percent of the time, they don’t spin off the dial, so the wheels are in the open position with everything beat off the front of the safe. Really dumb! Safe locks are not all that easily determined. With today’s new equipment for open- KEYNOTES APRIL 2016 ell, you just finished your corporate taxes and now for your personal taxes… when does it ever end? Never — that’s the joy of living in a democracy. With taxes come profits, and that’s the carrot we’re all striving to attain. What does this have to do with forensic locksmithing? Fraud! It’s a big motivator to increase “Auto investigations are a large part of the forensic locksmith’s activities, but they aren’t the only investigations they conduct. Number two would be safe and vault inspections.” ing safes, the investigator needs to look at every aspect of how that safe was opened. From birth date of the owner to the au- tomatic dialer, every aspect of that safe lock opening is examined, photographed and recorded. No assumptions are ever made, and only facts are presented in your report. If you’d like to experience the excite- ment of forensic locksmithing and add another profit center to your thriving business, join IAIL. If you’re an ex- isting ALOA or SAVTA member, it’s only an additional $50 for this valu- able membership. om Resciniti Demont, HC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CMST, ICML, FDI, ARL, President, In- ernational Association of nvestigative Locksmiths oa.org WWW.ALOA.ORG
