That's Rod Iddles above having captured the audience's attention, and at right at the podium.
 
Ron Iddles as guest speaker drew a large number of guest attendees to hear his address.   Ron is the Secretary and CEO of the Victorian Police Association and a well known and respected contributor/commentator on topical law and order issues.  However with over 30 years service in the Police Forces with 25 years as a Senior Investigator in homicide cases Ron’s address concentrated on his observations and stories of such cases.
 
Reasons behind homicides are difficult to determine but Ron noted that in his time society and resultant human behaviour has changed and is still changing rapidly.  Concepts of family units are different, and especially modes and degrees of personal communication are far different.  An individual can be readily isolated and that fact alone can see him/her suffer and respond in an anti social and violent manner.
 
Ron demonstrated the investigator's basic approach to a suspicious death and demonstrated the three keys points of the approach by reference to examples and stories of his own experiences.   First step was to identify the deceased and catalogue all their connections, second establish the cause of death and finally consider the possible motives behind the death.
 
Against this framework Ron almost held the audience spellbound as he told of his experiences and cases.