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Detektive Kocks
Since 1955 successful operations for colleagues and customers throuout the world.
Raoul Classen
General Manager of Detektiv-Institut Kocks GmbH, specializing in economic crime investigations and industrial espionage prevention. With a background in the military and extensive experience in the private sector, he conducts security analyses, employee training, and advises on crisis management for businesses.
Qualified team
With more than fifty years of experience in the field our investigators and enquiry agents have the most diverse qualifications of successful undercover operations and investigations.
Specialist network
Many years of successful cooperation with competent partners for legal, security and technology issues.
Investigations, observation and evidence gathering for the following problem areas:
Market and company information
Search for information on persons, screening on applicants
Affidavit of service
Our philosophy – quality and discretion
Ever since it was founded in 1955 by M. Wilhelm Kocks, the Kocks private investigation agency has made it its business to implement prevention, fact finding, and evidence gathering measures for protecting companies against white collar and staff crime.
References
In a confidential conversation we can present numerous references testifying to the success of our private investigator services. Here’s what some of our customers have to say about our 55 years of private investigation work.
Fact finding and evidence gathering
Prevention based on control procedures and advice
Specialist competence, quality, and discretion in prevention, fact finding, and evidence gathering ensure fast and permanent solutions – at both the national and international levels. Call us!
Lack of evidence
Being right is one thing, but proving that you are is a question of evidence. Taking your case to a civil court, labour tribunal, or criminal court is a lost cause if you can’t produce the evidence you need.
Theft & embezzlement
Theft and embezzlement committed by staff are continually on the increase. The official crime statistics can give no reliable information because these cases are reported only rarely.
Expenses fraud
A particularly frequent manifestation of fraud which is increasingly affecting both middle-sized companies and corporate groups is expenses fraud committed by fieldworkers.
Buyer corruption
In the business-to-business field, the budgets for relations management are generously stocked.
Absenteeism
Absenteeism disguised as sick reports is not a petty offence, but fraud. The consequence is escalating staffing costs and disruptions to industrial processes.
Industrial espionage
The growing pressure of innovative success and the new markets in Central and Eastern Europe are intensifying the competition to such an extent that also industrial espionage.
Computer-Crime
Systematic embezzlement, acts of sabotage with far-reaching consequences, and increasing online industrial espionage are all possible when computers are manipulated.
Product piracy
Not only consumer goods, also machinery and supplied parts are becoming increasingly affected by brand and product piracy. Detectives Kocks successfully fighting against product pirates. Faked products of a famous parfume from paris were offered on the German market under price declared. Detectives Kocks had to find out the distribution channels and the persons behind. Experience in building-up a convinced pretext and the know how regarding organization and distribution channels of product pirates were deciding factors for Detectives Kocks in der successful fighting against faked parfume.
Bad debts
The customer isn’t paying, although you have delivered the goods or provided the services as agreed.
evidence: KOCKS
Rising managers and employee crime has fatal consequences. Corporate assets are emaciated, playful competitive advantages, profits and jobs will be destroyed.
Statistics say: No company is safe.
You can express a suspicion prevail staffing measures and win labour court only by verified evidence and witness statements. The care, quality and discretion in preparing and determination make our evidence and witnesses to strengthen instruments. Without this evidence your lawyer may not win a procedure.
We have the solutions to your problems.
Discrete evidence investigators since 1955. Experienced partner at your side. Detectives KOCKS act nationwide and internationally. „We clarify that! Discreet, reliable and successful.“
By the way, about 80% of our orders arrive tion states by recommendation or re-engagement by existing customers. This was due to both the service and the personal attention of the customer during order processing.
Manfred Lotze reports since 1999 on investigative possibilities and limitations as well as the usefulness of the investigation results in workshops and in-house event, also at seminars and conferences.
The competence-association of business protection and detective agency has agreements of framework contracts and close cooperation among others contributed with internationally active law firms. It was one of the important steps in the over 55-year history of detectives KOCKS.
Why Detectives KOCKS?
We have the solutions to your problems. Detectives KOCKS are working nationwide and on international markets.
Detectives KOCKS serve the wider economy at home and abroad for economic
protection (eg safety advice) and problem solving at workplaces.
Free resources
First Aid: Request! Helping people help themselves – at damage control, preservation of evidence, process gain, regress.
Evidence: KOCKS.
KOCKS evidence prevents loss of competitive advantages, profits and jobs.
Detective reports
Who, What, When, How, Why, With what, Where?
These are the findings that should be taken by every detective work. The goal is the detection of events in chronological order without gaps.
Events
We offer customized in-house events. Determine your priorities.
You are looking for serious support to solve your problems?
We offer know-how from over 60 years of practice with investigative methods!
You will find a selection of our workshops.
You have other issues? Talk to us!
Raoul Classen is the managing director of Detective-Institut Kocks GmbH and, with his many years of experience, is available to help you with your problems with advice and support.
After moving from the military to the private sector, he led a large number of investigations in the area of economic crime as the responsible economic investigator, where he also worked as an undercover investigator for many years. A particular focus of our activities and work is the investigation and prevention of industrial espionage in companies.
In the area of prevention, he carries out security and vulnerability analyses, creates information protection concepts, carries out anti-eavesdropping measures and employee training for companies at risk and is involved in setting up security and crisis management for small and medium-sized companies, large corporations or wealthy private individuals.
At the political level, he advocates for greater awareness among the German public of the threat to know-how and job losses caused by industrial espionage.
In addition, Raoul Classen works as a speaker for, among others, the Lower Saxony State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and has worked as an official in various detective associations.
Detektiv-Institut Kocks GmbH
Beerenhöhe 30
21077 Hamburg
Germany
CEO
Raoul Classen
E-Mail: info@detektive-kocks.de
Tel. +49 (0)211 408 777 0
Fax +49 (0)211 408 777 25
Office hours: on working days
| Mo. – Fr.: | 08:00 Uhr – 20:00 Uhr |
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