Background Investigations
Agency Officials
Investigations
PST Investigations conducts objective, lawful, and independent investigations for our clients. Our expertise is in pre-employment and administrative workplace investigations related to public agencies, such as state, county, and local governments, fire districts, school districts, utility districts, correctional facilities, 911 dispatch center, and others. Private companies will also benefit from our exceptional investigative skills and objectivity. With a wealth of experience and a reputation of upholding the highest levels of professionalism and ethics, we provide the most thorough and productive investigations, assessments, and audits.
TRUST COMES WITH EXPERIENCE
PST is a State of Washington licensed Private Investigative Agency. Our investigators combine for an unparalleled 350+ years of experience in pre-employment background investigations, complex criminal investigations, workplace investigations and state-of-the-art interview techniques. Please click here to learn more about our excellent team of investigators.
Background Investigations
PST Investigations provides in-depth and objective background investigations that provide you with the information you need to make the right hiring decision. We have significant experience in conducting pre-employment background investigations. Since 2006, we have conducted thousands of pre-employment background investigations ranging from entry-level to executive level positions. Pre-employment background investigations include:
- Detailed Personal History Statement (PHS)
- Identified positive traits
- Identified areas of concern
- In-depth candidate interview
- Education verification
- Employment history
- Financial history
- Driving record/history
- Criminal history
- Law enforcement area checks
- Civil court records
- Military history
- Drug and alcohol use history
- Domestic/relationship history
- Internet and social networking checks
- Work ethic and performance dimensions
- Character and integrity history
- Judgment and emotional stability history
- Reliability, dependability, accountability history
- Communication and customer service skills history
- Reference interviews
- Client debrief
- Detailed report
Additional Services
- Polygraph Examinations
- EyeDetect Lie Detection
Records Checks
- Criminal convictions
- Outstanding warrants
- Sex Offender registration
- Social Security verification
- Address verification
- Driving record
- Credit check
- Education verification
Workplace Misconduct Investigations
Determining who should investigate alleged workplace misconduct is an important decision. Independent investigations provide a perception of fairness that internally conducted investigations cannot match.
PST Investigations provides you with the confidence that the process will be thorough and fair.
Misconduct investigations require the utmost care to protect your agency’s integrity. The process of investigating a high-profile or sensitive allegation in-house, can affect the working relationships of agency members, regardless of the outcome. Hiring an unbiased, independent investigative team minimizes the damage to relationships that can arise during an investigation.
When an allegation involves a ranking official or involves sensitive or embarrassing issues, an outside investigation can enhance confidentiality and reduce the possibility of unauthorized information disclosures within your organization during the investigation.
For more information on our investigative services, please visit PST Investigations at http://www.pstinvestigations.com/.
Private Investigator Training
PST is a Washington State certified training source for those wishing to obtain their state private investigator license.
COVID-19 UPDATES
5/6/2020 Update:
TESTING IN WASHINGTON STATE CANCELED THROUGH MAY 31, 2020
All pre-employment tests in Washington State have been canceled until May 31, 2020 unless government restrictions are eased. With recent updates, facility closures, and government guidelines, this step is necessary and could be modified at any time. The health and safety of our customers, our staff, and their families is of the highest priority.
We will continue to evaluate developments and make changes to this policy as necessary. When we do resume testing, there will be plenty of events for everyone to test. We are in regular communication with our public safety agency partners, assessing alternatives to the traditional testing model and our testing policies. Any future updates will be posted on the PST website and our Facebook page.
4/1/2020 Update:
If you have tested with PST in the past 12 months, there may be additional positions you are now eligible to add. Several departments have temporarily changed their testing policies due to the suspension in testing that COVID-19 has caused. Please login to your PST account and navigate to the ‘New Positions’ page to see what departments you can add! We will regularly update that page in your account as departments send updates.
FUTURE TEST REGISTRATION
We know that there will be testing in the future - we just don’t know when! We want you to be prepared for when testing begins again so we have created test events on our calendar that you can register for that will place you in a queue to be first notified. These tests are not “real” test events, they are essentially a holding area. You will be able to “reschedule” out of that event to any other event date/location at no cost. Registering now will also give you time to work on your Personal History Statement (PHS) so that your data will be ready and up-to-date to send to your departments once testing resumes.
To sign up for this placeholder event, select the June 15, 2020 test date in your category (police, fire, 911 dispatch, corrections, etc.).
You may also click on the test event of interest below to sign up:
Law Enforcement & Corrections Written and Physical Ability Test
Please check back here frequently and ‘Like’ our Facebook page to stay updated.
PST staff are working remotely and are available by email at contact@publicsafetytesting.com. We anticipate a high email volume and will respond as quickly as possible.
