A collectable framed photo and signature of notorious FBI founder J. Edgar
Hoover hangs prominently over the desk of Steve Foster, executive vice
president and chief operating officer of Business Controls Inc. in
Littleton.
“It’s there as a symbol of how not to do business,” said Foster, a former
Aurora police officer with more than 20 years in law enforcement who now
helps companies implement ethics programs, conduct ethical workplace
investigations and prevent workplace fraud and violence. “Hoover symbolized
secrecy and unethical behavior but I believe businesses today need to be
transparent in everything they do.”
Foster, the former president of the Colorado Drug-Free Workplace Alliance
and Colorado DARE, left the Aurora Police Department shortly after Denver
police officer Bruce L. VanderJagt’s death in a shooting in 1997.
“I was frustrated with the way things were handled – his wife was a DARE
teacher in Colorado – so I took a year’s leave of absence to learn
everything I could about technology and understand business,” Foster said.
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