Connor Maleary
Eight years assessing intelligence in counter-terrorism policing, two before that in military intelligence. CM Intel exists because that discipline — grading what you know, separating it from what you think, and writing it so someone can act on it — is almost absent from commercial investigation work.
Intelligence Assessor
Counter Terrorism Intelligence Management UnitReads incoming information, works out what it is worth, and writes the assessment that senior officers and partner agencies act on. Eight years of deciding what is solid enough to act on and what is not.
Military Intelligence Operator
British ArmyTrained in collecting, analysing and reporting intelligence, specialising in getting information from people — interviewing and debriefing. Named best recruit on completion of training.
He can tell you how confident to be
Most reports state findings flatly. This one tells you which findings are solid, which rest on a single source, and what would change the answer.
He has briefed people who had to act
Assessments written for senior officers and partner agencies, where being vague wastes their time and being over-confident is worse.
He has interviewed people for a living
Trained in interviewing and debriefing. Useful when an investigation needs someone spoken to properly rather than searched for online.
Intelligence Professionalisation Programme
The national standard for intelligence work in UK policing. Formally assessed, not a short course.
Defence Protective Security Practitioner
Qualified to survey a site and say what would actually make it harder to attack. Taught at the Defence Intelligence school.
Open-Source Intelligence Research
Formal training in finding and verifying information from publicly available sources — and in doing it lawfully.
Connor still works in counter-terrorism policing. That background is why CM Intel works the way it does. It is not a source of information.
No police, government or military system, database, document or contact is used for this work. Not for a lead, not for a check, not as a favour. Anything with a plausible connection to his official work is declined, and the decline is recorded.
If you need something that can only come from a police system, CM Intel is not able to get it and will tell you so rather than take the instruction.
Director of Rugby for youth at Mistley Rugby Club, responsible for the standard of coaching for more than 160 children, and coach of the under-15s. It is the reason the first venues CM Intel worked with were clubs and schools — people who already knew him asked him to look at their premises.