If You have Missed the Preventive Stage, Make full Use
of the Pre-emptive Stage
The best defense is try to undo the damage of threat of potential damage to the department. This the CO can partially or substantially accomplish in the initial stage, in the normal manner of carrying out his functions, utilizing the available resources of the department at his command. This is the phase in which the interests of both the department and the charged officer coincide, as the charged officer has not yet been indicted. The employer is still a "nurturing parent", but after ordering an investigation he becomes a "doubting parent" and when charge sheet is issued he is a "critical parent". But still he is your parent and you must know how to remain in his fold and not allow him to discard you from being his ward.
You have a better scope to rectify omissions initially, but the position changes once an investigation is ordered. At this stage the CO may not even be able to get access to the records relevant to the suspected elements/allegations. When the going is not turned bad, rectify what are termed as "irregularities", as many of them as possible. When the investigator enters the field subsequently, he will not come with a one-point programme of looking into a single transaction, of which someone has complained or where potential damage is feared. He comes most probably to show his expertise in "fault-finding". Do not get nervous, but update all collateral records, remove all procedural irregularities. Wherever certain matters were not reported to controlling office, like mandatory reports, submit them immediately; reply to authorities correspondence, and secure a transparency of your functioning. Remember you have not been indicted at this stage, make use of this "asset" to the full extent, looking things and representing things from the angle of securing the interests of the Department, but simultaneously working equally for your own protection. You can demolish more than 50% of the case against you, if you fully make use of opportunity at this stage.
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