Matthew COBB

• Employed by Devon and Cornwall Police as a Detective Constable in various roles / locations between the dates mentioned.
• Most recently and prior to retirement in October 2023 (at 30 years service).

PIP Level 2 Investigator in the following roles,

• March 2023 - September 2023

Tutor DC for six Trainee Detectives.

Training officers in the key areas of live serious crime investigation / case file assembly & presentation / disclosure / HM Coroners investigation / intelligence led investigation into organised crime.

• December 2019 to March 2023

Detective Constable on the CIOS (Cornwall & Isles of Scilly) Proactive Team.

Case officer for multiple intelligence led investigations into Modern Slavery / online child abuse / county lines across the UK and organised crime.

Cases of note -

R v CONDLIFFE / MCLEAN / ELLIS / FINCHAM.

Two year investigation into the use of Royal Mail to send

£560,000 of cash proceeds from the sale of Class A controlled drugs from Cornwall to Liverpool equating to the sale of around seven kilos of Class A.

Case Officer / Disclosure

R v MCALLISTER / ROMAGNA

County Line investigation between Merseyside & Cornwall disrupting violence toward the vulnerable and Class A (heroin & crack cocaine) supply across West Cornwall.

Case Officer / Disclosure Officer

Modern Slavery investigation.

Protracted investigation into forced slavery of a Latvian male and disruption of a Cornwall based Organised Crime Group that exploited vulnerable victims.

Case Officer.

• March 2014 to December 2019

Detective Constable - Truro & CIOS

Investigating officer / Case Officer for numerous serious crime investigations which included serious sexual offences / high level fraud / serious assaults / high risk missing persons / high value robbery and approximately eleven HM Coroner investigations into suspicious deaths & suicides.

Cases of note -

R v SEYMOUR / SHARP / LEVERTON

Protracted investigation into a S.18 GBH offence where the victim received significant head injuries from a hammer attack during a drug exchange.

Case Officer / Disclosure Officer

Operation Spire

R v BUINEVICIUS et al

Investigation into a £1m armed robbery at Micheal Spires, Truro. Led arrest team across South West over several weeks locating suspects and working closely with National Borders Targeting Team.

R v RETALLICK

Complex investigation into a complex £1.4m fraud by the finance director of the company who had embezzled company funds for his own use.

Case Officer / Disclosure Officer

• Detective Constable

SO15 Counter Terrorism Command

Metropolitan Police Service

Intelligence development officer connected to numerous national security operations across the UK and abroad.

Primary role throughout was to work alongside the Senior

Investigating Officer as the intelligence lead for several operations.

Worked extensively with various covert policing and Security Service Agencies ensuring the highest levels of intelligence sharing/ dissemination and development.

Operations led to numerous high level arrests / convictions and many cases of disruption of organised criminality around terrorism.

Cases of note -

R v BUCHANAN & ALI

Disruption investigation into BUCHANAN and his co-accused ALI around a significant fraud against the Student Loan Company to losses around £360k.

Covert tactics (used evidentially) to record conversations between the defendants and others who conspired with them to falsely apply for Student Loans.

Lee Rigby murder.

Part of the initial intelligence team that developed tactics to secure evidence around the main suspects and co-accused.

R v RASHID / HUSSEIN / HUSSAIN /ALAM

Protracted intelligence investigation that culminated in the S.18 GBH of a teacher by the defendants over his teaching against Islam.

• Police Constable / Detective Constable

Peterborough

August 1993 to June 1999

Following training, served as a response officer in and around Peterborough.

• June 1999 to June 2000

Divisional Proactive Team Investigations into armed robberies / high value burglaries in - around Peterborough committed by travelling criminals.

• June 2000 to March 2002

Trainee Detective Constable / Detective Constable (December 2000).

Based in reactive CID investigations team in Peterborough.

Responsible for multiple forms of investigation including sexual offences / serious assaults / firearms offences / robberies / fraud cases.

• March 2002 to October 2004

Detective Constable / Field Intelligence Officer on small proactive team based in Peterborough.

Primarily worked as part of the small team around armed robbery investigation and organised crime groups.

• October 2004 to October 2008

Detective Constable / Major Investigation Team.

As part of small team (one of three) in the County worked on multiple murder investigations throughout Cambridgeshire, across the UK & Europe.

Case Officer / Disclosure Officer (Holmes 2) / exhibits / inquiry team and intelligence cell.

Developed a high level of knowledge in preparation of high quality case file / detailed disclosure assessment and the use of covert tactics in the development of intelligence as evidence.

Secured a number of convictions for high profile murder cases receiving a number of commendations for the integrity of the investigations.