CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS
RISK MANAGEMENT
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
Our elite team of premiere investigators have hundreds of years of combined experience encompassing exemplary policing careers, senior corporate security executives and business leaders. They are specifically recruited based on demonstrated investigative abilities, consistent professionalism, and a history of personal and professional success. ISN specializes in corporate, financial, and insurance investigations for a number of Fortune 500 companies including major banks, investment firms, local, national, and multinational corporations, as well as a number of prominent clients within the energy sector.
We pride ourselves on professionalism and our standards of excellence. We offer quality, confidential private investigation services, providing our clients with ongoing support throughout the entire process.
Whether it’s a corporate, criminal, civil, insurance or personal matter, ISN’s investigators are subject matter experts who consistently exceed our client’s expectations.
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
Risk management is the process for identifying, analyzing, and communicating risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or controlling it to an acceptable level considering associated costs and benefits of any actions taken.
ISN works closely with our clients to understand our client’s security risk profile and risk appetite. We then use industry best practices and subject matter experts to establish and implement a security risk management plan. These plans can include, creating a robust enterprise security management system, conducting threat, risk and vulnerability assessments, training employees on how they each play a role in minimizing the organization’s risk profile or conducting detailed investigations on security breaches or employee misconduct.
The ISN Risk Management consultants work closely with our clients, providing a dedicated approach focused on helping protect their enterprise concerns. We provide hands-on expertise in key areas, including:
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
Areas of Expertise
Lost and Missing Person Investigations
Instructor
Code of Conduct Investigations
Location
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Office - Phone
1-866-790-4764
Robert James Appleton
Background Investigator
Robert has been a Private Investigator with Investigative Solutions Network Inc. (“ISN”) since September of 2019, after retiring from a 30-year career with the Ontario Provincial Police. He served as a 26-year member of the Ontario Provincial Police Emergency Response Team, eight years of which he was the team leader. He performed as the Acting Sergeant/Provincial Search and Rescue Coordinator with the OPP Field Support Bureau GHQ Orillia, Ontario.
Robert has coordinated dozens of searches for loss and missing persons, evidence searches in major criminal investigations. He has instructed at the OPP Academy GHQ Orillia, at CFB Borden, and at CFB Meaford in the disciplines of basic search and rescue, search coordination, mapping software, K-9 back-up, VIP security, and other emergency response applications.
Robert participated in the successful handling/coordinating of high stress life threatening situations including barricaded subjects and missing/loss persons. He provided investigative expertise, due diligence, and compassion to victims of violence. Robert was an 18-year Intoxilyzer/Breathalyzer technician and participated as a breathalyzer technician in numerous impaired operation driving offenses, and in several impaired operation causing injury and death investigations. Additional training with ISN includes workplace violations, harassment and workplace violence and codes of conduct.
His roles and responsibilities with ISN include workplace OHSA investigations, municipal code of conduct and conflict of interest investigations, background investigations, security personal mentorship, assisting with incident command and others as assigned.
Robert’s educational experience includes studying at Carleton University in Ottawa in General Arts/Criminology 1986, Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie where he studied Business and Law 1986-1988, and he received an Associate of Arts Policing diploma in 1988 from the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario.