Book Review “Corporate and Workplace Investigations” by Mario Bekes & Clive Smallman

Crime Investigative and Interviewing Techniques

This highly specialised book covers the process of investigations in corporate workplaces and surrounding circumstances. The book is written as a manual for those professionals handling case management and intelligence research activities. Those can be related to competitive analysis, insurance claims or espionage to name a few. In that sense it is not a self-help book for the masses or even an encyclopaedia. Instead it focuses on commonly used methods and principles which can also be applied in a broader usage beyond the first view.

The Managing Director of the Preferred Investigations Firm Insight Intelligence Group, Mario Bekes — Human Intelligence Expert, has a lengthy experience in military, diplomatic and civilian intelligence in Europe and Australia. Professor Clive Smallman contributed using his research and learning advisor capabilities. Since publishing this book, Mario hosts the Mario Bekes — Life The Battlefield podcast and became the Guinness World record holder for the longest podcast ever recorded in 2023.

The book starts with an amusing introduction into the short history of crime highlighting that “criminology and investigation techniques have evolved, but…