About DSRM
DSRM was founded by a former New Scotland Yard Crime Squad investigator with extensive experience across complex investigations, sexual violence, safeguarding, and high-risk, reputationally sensitive environments in multiple jurisdictions.
A consistent thread runs through three decades of this work: the identification of risk patterns that institutions were not yet willing to see; in education systems, in military environments, in national crime data, and in industries that believed they understood their own vulnerabilities. In each case, independent investigation confirmed what established bodies denied, and policy or practice changed as a result.
That investigative capability; anticipatory, evidence-led, and not dependent on institutional permission; is the foundation of everything DSRM offers.
Selected Case Examples
Location-Based Risk Insight
Spatial Threat Analysis & Workforce Exposure Assessment
Context
As part of a regional risk assessment for a major financial institution evaluating an Asia headquarters relocation, DSRM was asked to examine environmental safety conditions affecting workforce deployment, particularly the exposure of female employees across different urban environments.
During this work, broader analysis of disappearance and violence data revealed geographic patterns that warranted deeper investigation.
Work Undertaken
Using multi-year disappearance, violence, and location data, DSRM conducted behavioural and spatial pattern analysis to identify potential clustering, environmental risk concentrations, and indicators of repeat-offender activity.
The analysis identified a marked increase in missing women cases aligned with the broader #MeToo period, alongside geographic correlations that had not been previously recognised.
Findings were shared with law enforcement, while selected location mapping was later published to support public awareness and risk reduction.
Impact
The project demonstrated how location-based intelligence can uncover hidden exposure patterns relevant to both organisational decision-making and individual safety.
The methodology directly informed the development of DSRM’s wider behavioural risk and environmental intelligence services, including:
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workforce exposure assessment
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environmental mapping and pattern analysis
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targeted safety briefings
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and the Continuous Intelligence Updates programme
It also reinforced a central principle of DSRM’s work:
risk is shaped not only by who is exposed—but by where exposure occurs.
Confronting the Construction Industry Suicide Crisis (Ongoing)
Context
An investigation into the suicide of a UK construction worker revealed how long-standing personal trauma, when combined with occupational stress, isolation, and limited escalation pathways, can remain invisible within construction environments until harm occurs.
Human Risk Insight
The investigation found that the death was not caused by construction. It was rooted in an unresolved historical injustice carried silently across a working life; in an environment with no mechanism to surface it, no language to address it, and no framework to see it. Construction didn't cause his suicide. But it may well have been the environment in which he was least likely to ever surface it, least likely to find support, and least likely to survive it.
This finding directly challenges the dominant industry narrative, and the interventions built around it. It is now informing the development of a new analytical framework examining how external personal vulnerabilities intersect with operational environments to produce consequences that existing systems cannot anticipate.
Work Undertaken
The inquiry was expanded across the UK construction sector and published as the Crane Report, identifying recurring patterns of silence, cultural norms, and structural blind spots. Comparative analysis in South Korea and Japan is examining whether similar human-risk dynamics persist across different cultural and regulatory contexts.
PyeongChang Winter Olympics:
Crisis Preparedness
Context
The 2018 Winter Olympics presented a high-density risk environment, with millions of visitors exposed to threats ranging from opportunistic crime to potential geopolitical escalation.
Work Undertaken
We developed contingency and evacuation frameworks for high-value individuals, incorporating multiple escape options across mountainous and coastal terrain, supported by rapid-orientation mapping and fallback mobility plans.
Impact
Targeted briefings and preparedness training enabled visiting executives to understand local conditions, escalation triggers, and emergency protocols, improving decision-making under uncertainty in a time-critical environment.
U.S. Military Violence Prevention
Context
Rising levels of soldier-on-soldier sexual violence within U.S. military units highlighted systemic failures in early detection, escalation, and prevention within high-stress, hierarchical environments.
Work Undertaken
Through cross-case pattern analysis, we identified recurring behavioural and structural risk indicators and developed mitigation strategies presented to senior military leadership, including a 4-Star General and principal advisors.
Impact
We delivered targeted training to commanders on behavioural risk recognition and escalation, followed by prevention programmes for personnel at multiple levels.
DSRM was awarded a Certificate of Achievement by the United States Military in recognition of this work.
Uncovering Systemic Vulnerabilities in International Education
Context
Sexual assault allegations at a major international kindergarten exposed risks to both victims and organisational integrity within cross-border education environments.
Work Undertaken
Our investigation identified systemic vulnerabilities enabling abuse, including immigration fraud, falsified qualifications, and the use of legal name-change mechanisms to conceal criminal histories across the UK, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. These pathways were being exploited within Korean and Japanese education sectors and were largely unrecognised by regulators.
Impact
We briefed threat patterns and systemic findings to the Korean Congress, contributing to comprehensive immigration rule changes that closed critical safeguarding and security gaps.
This work was conducted before Interpol publicly confirmed the presence of its most wanted child sex offender, Christopher Neil, a Canadian national, teaching at a private institution in Seoul. His arrest in Thailand followed shortly after his public identification. The pattern DSRM had identified, and which regulators had refused to acknowledge, was confirmed.
Multi-Million Dollar Procurement Fraud
Context
A global automotive manufacturer experienced significant financial losses linked to irregularities within a competitive contract bidding process involving multiple robotics suppliers.
Work Undertaken
Through large-scale document and pattern analysis across thousands of bid submissions, we identified coordinated price-rigging behaviour, mapped the structure of the collusive network, and established the organisational and individual drivers behind the scheme.
Impact
The findings informed the development of enhanced supplier vetting frameworks and targeted training for in-country interpreters and commercial staff on fraud red-flag recognition, establishing ongoing detection capability rather than one-off remediation.
International Law Enforcement Collaboration
Context
Cross-border criminal activity, including exploitation and organised trafficking, highlighted the limitations of fragmented national responses to transnational human-driven threats.
Work Undertaken
Working with the Korea National Police, we delivered training and briefings at multiple international forums to senior law enforcement officers from Asia, Europe, Australia, and the United States, focusing on shared risk patterns, coordination challenges, and response frameworks for cross-border crime.
Impact
The work supported knowledge transfer between jurisdictions and strengthened collective understanding of how human behaviour, mobility, and regulatory gaps interact across borders in complex threat environments.
Japan - Fukuoka Police Capacity Building
Context
Fukuoka Prefectural Police identified a growing need to strengthen capability in handling complex international cases involving non-Japanese nationals.
Work Undertaken
Over a three-year period, we designed and delivered a structured capacity-building programme covering English-language operational use, interview techniques, management of non-Japanese detainees, and criminal behavioural analysis. All training materials were developed in-house to align with local operational realities.
Impact
The programme enhanced investigative effectiveness and cross-border case handling, strengthening organisational confidence and capability in an increasingly international operating environment.
