CrimeLine is an employee-friendly toll-free crime reporting line – which enables and encourages your employees to contribute to reporting and preventing planned or existing internal fraud or theft. It is a superlative management tool with which to offer employees the opportunity to report, and indirectly right, wrongdoing within their company.

CrimeLine is staffed by a complement of specialised and multilingual advisors (minimum qualification: Law degree), ready to respond to and deal with calls 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It operates totally independently of your company – ensuring objectivity, impartiality and absolute fairness. Furthermore, all information is strictly confidential and the caller is assured of his or her complete anonymity at all times (Protected Disclosures Act – South Africa).

• In 1994 the King Report on Corporate Governance (King I) was published by the King Committee on Corporate Governance, headed by former High Court Judge, Mervyn King S.C. The King I report, incorporating a Code of Corporate Practices and Conduct, which was the first of its kind in the country and was aimed at promoting the highest standards of Corporate Governance in South Africa.
• Due to the evolving global economic environment and recent legislative developments, the King Committee on Corporate Governance further developed the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa in 2002 (King II).
• The committee identified various risks to address which also included the risks of fraud / theft at the workplace.
• The committee suggested that the employees should have the ability to report any such irregularities, this should be introduced by management. [extract from the report: “…the company should also consider the need for a confidential reporting process (whistle-blowing) covering fraud and other risks…”]
• This resulted in various companies introducing such reporting structures which proved to be successful, but unfortunately lead to extreme cases of victimisation of the individuals who had the courage to report such matters.