When a theft occurs in the Organisation, a routine set of actions should occur. These actions are as follows:

1. The person discovering the theft goes immediately to the Ethics Officer and makes a full verbal report of the article/articles stolen, when they were last there — who was responsible for their safety — and any further data that he has on it.

2. The Ethics Officer writes down all details of the theft and the articles stolen.

In the cases where large objects such as a machine, car, or the building has been broken into and something taken, he calls the Police immediately giving full details of the theft.

3. The Ethics Officer then makes a Xerox copy of the details of the theft and takes it to the Insurance Officer, Dept of Records, Assets and Materiel, Org Division.

4. The Insurance Officer takes the Report and immediately notifies the Insurance Company with which the article was insured.

These actions should be done speedily as in some cases unless a theft is reported immediately to the Police and the Insurance Company, the Insurance is not collectable.

It is the responsibility of the Insurance Officer to see that all articles of value are insured.