Daniel Baulch has spent more than twenty-five years investigating organised crime, corruption and financial crime — and living with the pressure that comes with it. As a detective on Victoria Police's Purana Taskforce during the Melbourne gangland wars and the period connected to the Lawyer X matters, he saw firsthand how organised crime exploits institutional weakness. He went on to run covert corruption investigations that sent serving police officers to prison, and led Victoria Police's Professional Standards Command and Crime Intelligence functions before taking investigations leadership roles at WorkSafe Victoria and the Victorian Electoral Commission.
That work carried a cost. Across his career he has survived threats to his life, false accusations and repeated attempts to discredit him — and each time chose to continue the mission of fighting crime and corruption rather than step away from it.
From 2023 to 2026 he served as the inaugural Deputy Commissioner (Operations & Technical Services) of Papua New Guinea's Independent Commission Against Corruption. In that role he engaged international stakeholders including the United Nations, the OECD, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and the FATF on transnational organised crime, money laundering and asset recovery, and has presented on the global stage to agencies such as the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank on corruption.
Baulch is as much a student of his field as a practitioner of it — a close reader of the history of policing, investigation and organised crime, and of how the law both succeeds and fails against them. He is particularly interested in how poorly designed laws and policy can produce unintended and damaging consequences, even as he argues for laws and institutions capable of confronting crime at its core. In January 2026 he founded Integrity Solve, an advisory practice focused on integrity, investigations, financial crime and AML/CTF. He writes, speaks and comments on corruption, organised crime, financial crime and institutional integrity across Australia and the Pacific.
