Workplace Threats - Real or not so much
Idle threat or real intent
“Threats to people safety and security inside organisations is not uncommon - The challenge is to move quickly to identify who is behind it and their motive”
A large private trust company manages millions in clients funds and client estates. Over the past two years it has been receiving a number of threats. The threats are are both specific to people and general in nature.
At the start it was random calls to the call centre “your bosses better be careful, you’ve f**ked me around now I’m gonna do the same to you”. Just a another random nut case caller or so they thought.
The calls morphed into carefully constructed threatening letters, anonymous but alarming. ‘You’ve messed with my family, now I’m gonna mess with you”.
Just threats or real intent. They have thousands of customers so who is it, is it even a customer ? The police are involved but it’s not their highest priority.
You know who the offender is, you just don’t know it….. Yet. There is a connection, you just need to find it, gather the evidence and present it to the police on a plate.
Workplace Investigations -Get the facts
Workplace investigations require balance, sensitivity and investigative expertise
When an organisation gets a number of threats like the story above, it’s important not to treat them in silo and make sure the nature of the threats are centralised so you can lift up a bit and see if there is a connection.
One random call might be able to be written off as random, but if there is evidence to tie together a whole bunch of those threats - then you have a problem that you need visibility over.
But within that problem is an opportunity. An opportunity to tie the evidence together, to dig into your client base and do some good old fashion investigative work, mix this with some modern computer data and forensic analytics and chances are you will be able to solve it.
Start gathering all the information about the threats, analyse the information , turn it into intelligence you can see and use.
You know who is responsible, you know this person - you just don’t know it yet.
Be curious, and bring in that private investigative expertise if required.
QRisk Trusted Workplace Investigators
QRisk Investigations - Trusted & Experienced Private Investigators
We know the above story is real, it exists, the scenario is real because we have successfully worked alongside the HR & Healthy & Safety business units of similar companies.
We are relied upon for our investigative expertise, we pull together an internal team, use our experience and run an investigation to solve this criminal offending against your people and the organisation.
The result - An offender identified, a file for a police prosecution prepared, which is then handed over to the police for their court action.
QRisk Investigations is the unique position of having the subject matter expertise in Investigative experience, HR knowledge and organisational cultural development. When this type of offending exists, having this level of knowledge on your side is gold.
QRisk is in a position to work along side you and mentor and support your internal workplace investigation, or we can simply come in and take a more direct role and do the complete end to end investigation for you. Either way, you’re in control, your supported and you have private investigation knowledge you can trust.
QRisk Private Investigation Expertise
QRisk Investigations are licensed by the ministry of justice to carry out private and workplace investigations. Whilst that’s important from a compliance point of view, our real value add is our experience and expertise across HR, organisation culture and investigative experience which has its foundation from the NZ Police.
Regardless of the situation at hand inside your organisation, a first step to take is to contact us for a no obligation initial consultation.
Contact us directly - QRisk New Zealand Private Investigation expertise.
QRisk workplace investigations for;
Threats as highlighted in this blog
Internal theft or fraud
Bullying
Allegations of assault or intimidation