You'd see the delivery trucks delivering the goods to the warehouse in question, and for the balance of that afternoon, you'd see people just rocking up with trailers, just loading up. This was no petty shoplifting by someone with too many pockets. Instead, it was microwaves and whitegoods, being marched out the door in broad daylight. When the suspicions of fraud first arose, Harris Scarfe installed security cameras, three outside and eight inside, which caught some astounding footage. The private investigator then put her own suspicions to management.
Cockatoo means that someone in-house was forewarning when security was going down there to check.
And when I said that, I was questioned as to what a cockatoo was, and when I gave the full explanation, the jaw dropped on that person. And that's where the matter apparently came to an end. The private eye says management wanted prosecutions all-round. She believed only two were realistic. That wasn't good enough, and she was dismissed.