
Stacey rees
Head of Legal and Investigation Services
Stacey is Principal Consultant at HSE Global. She has international experience as a regulator and investigator across a diverse range of functional areas, including hazardous substances, asbestos, consumer credit and contract law, amusement devices, food safety, labelling, fraud, and health & safety.
Stacey is an experienced investigator trained in forensic investigation techniques using the PEACE model and ICAM trained as well as many other models. Stacey has been the lead investigator for several enforcement jurisdictions in the UK and has investigated multi-million pound fraud cases, some being firsts for the UK legal system. She has also investigated serious incidents in NZ under legal privilege as a regulator and consultant. Stacey developed a framework for criminal investigations, including the enforcement policy, guidelines and procedures based on actual and potential risk and intelligence for an NZ government client. This involved consultation, benchmarking with other regulators internationally, development of cradle-to-grave procedures and identification of investigation triggers.
Stacey is experienced in advanced investigation and interviewing techniques, prosecutions and court proceedings and in gathering, coding and analysing intelligence. She has been a superuser of the national intelligence system in the UK. In NZ, she has been part of the G-Reg enforcement group standardising investigation and compliance activity across all NZ government agencies.
In the UK, Stacey was Lead Officer for the Chartered Trading Standards Institute in the UK, where she managed national projects in metrology for over 1500 regulatory professionals (over 300 local authorities) and consulted on UK national policy with European counterparts. Stacey also specialised in food and product safety representing Central England Local Authorities.
In New Zealand, Stacey was involved in implementing the new hazardous substances regulations, which involved feedback and changes on the draft regulations to MBIE. Ensuring the new asbestos regulations were ready for ‘go live’, which involved providing the systems, processes and procedures in place, workers were trained, and that communication (internal and public-facing) was developed. Stacey also represented WorkSafe New Zealand on the Asbestos Technical Group, which worked on the audit standard and framework with the industry and JASANZ.
Stacey more recently had experience being the Health Safety and Environment manager within a government entity. Stacey is a member of NZISM, IoD, IPANZ, IOSH, CTSI and APPAM.