Closing the Loop 2024

Henderson Horrocks Risk Services was proud to be a Silver sponsor of the SISA Closing the Loop 2024 Conference, which was held at the Morphettville Racecourse in the Wolf Blass 'The Man' Event Centre. Skytrust was the Platinum Sponsor for 2024.

We displayed a variety of tools we used for surveillance operations along with a "Where's Wally" style game of spotting the investigators. We were happy to find that not many people could spot our surveillance operatives in the picture below.

Can you find the private investigators?

Congratulations to Jenny Bosnakis, Lawson Risk Services, and Jory McGowan, Helping Hand Aged Care, for winning our business card drop. Each winner received a Magnum (PI) bottle of wine and some Haighs' choccies.

As an avid Adelaide Crows supporter, Vin was ecstatic to witness Former Adelaide Crows player Rory Sloane give an insightful speech at the SISA Conference breakfast. His speech gave a unique insight into the risks associated with playing Australian Rules Football, expectations of risk from the players themselves, how the AFL is working to minimise the risk of injury, and the rehabilitation process when an injury does occur.

Celeste and Tom manned our Sponsorship Booth while our Directors, Sam and Vin, attended the sessions. The following sessions were highlights of the day:

• Empower, Taryn Brumfitt, Body image activist, director, writer and speaker

• Managing the Psychosocial Risk of Burnout, David Burroughs, Chief Mental Health Officer, Westpac Group

• How to Apologise, Emeritus Professor Gary Martin, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Insitute of Management WA

• Unboxing Psychosocial Hazards - the panel included Chris Sargent (Shopov Giourgas Lawyers), Gina Nardone (PeopleVision), Will Snow (Snow Legal), Chas Cini (MERS) and David Burroughs (Westpac Group)

2024 AIPI Conference

Henderson Horrocks Risk Services was proud to support the 2024 AIPI Conference as a Gold sponsor. It was a fantastic event, with many engaging guest speakers, held over two days at the Adelaide Oval, it was also the first AIPI conference to be held in Adelaide. The theme for the conference was "The Investigation Evolution."

Not only was the conference a lot of fun but we also got to hear a plethora of skilled professionals share their extensive knowledge with the audience. The key takeaways looked at the evolution of investigative techniques & technology, and the cultural changes that have shifted the scope of investigations today.

Thank you to the AIPI team for all the hard work they put into this event, your efforts were well worthwhile and much appreciated by all who attended. And a big congratulations to our two door prize winners who each won a Magnum (PI) bottle of wine.

Adelaide Oval was a stunning venue and the networking dinner at the restaurant featured an expertly curated four course meal with a scenic view of the green.

Keynote and Guest Speakers

Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs - Andrea Michaels MP Definition of a Licenced Investigator under the Security and Investigation Industry Act 1995 and Mutual Recognition

Technology including AI based fraud investigations Evan Whitelaw MAIPI — Former Head of Google’s Global Investigations Team

OSINT – Improving your online research Julia Robson MAIPI— Online Investigations Pty Ltd Director / Investigator

Outlaw Motor-Cycle Gang (OMCG) Infiltration of legitimate business Detective Sargent Mark Anderson & Detective Sargent Daniel Chrystie VicPol Echo Task Force

Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction— Charles Aust, Aust Automotive Engineering

Geopolitical Risk - Foreign Interference Ben Cornish - Director National Security Risk Specialist – McGrathNicol

The evolution of Psychosocial workplace investigations: From complaint to report writing Jane McConville - Director of FiveSeven Consulting Pty Ltd

Giving Evidence in legal proceedings Mark E. Dean KC - Former Judge County Court Victoria

Conference Opening - Keynote address ICAC Investigations and case study Christine Baulderstone - Corruption risks and prevention

Taming Text in Investigations - Data Fusion & Network Analysis Mark Richards - Sintelix

The Tail End of Failures in Employment Matters: High and Low Points from cases to help future proof your investigations. Kaye Itsines - Principal, Partner & Director, EMA Legal

Misconduct - Sexual Harassment Jodie Bradbrook - Principal Bradbrook Lawyers

Panel Discussion: Integrity/Legality - Desktop Investigations Mark Woods, Mark Gare and Briston Talbot

Henderson Horrocks Risk Sevices are proud members of the Australian Institute of Professional Investigators, and our Directors, Sam Horrocks and Vincent Henderson, are on the Committee.

Are you really talking to Fair Work?

A client recenty searched for and contacted what they thought was Fair Work Australia for some advice, and was provided with incorrect advice. Not knowing this at the time, they subsequently agreed to a visit, only to find it was NOT Fair Work they were talking

to but a private "subscription" HR company. Scare tactics were used and the client was told information contrary to the information provided on the Fair Work site. They were also told that they would put themselves at risk of having an "uncapped" court claim made and that, if that happened, the court would "100%" find them at fault. But if they subscribed ... This is not consulting, this is selling and using scare tactics at that.

Be careful - if you want help from Fair Work make sure the link you click on takes you to the Fair Work Site - the site looks like the image above. Many private businesses use URLs that include "fairwork"in the domain name. They do this to get you to contact them instead.