Confidential Informants & Source Development - Lafayette, LA - Jan 11 - 12, 2027
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IMPORTANT: If purchasing multiple seats, you will be required to provide attendee information for each student. A member of the PolicePosts team will follow up via email to collect all required attendee information prior to the training date.
Course Overview:
Human intelligence remains one of the most powerful tools in criminal investigations.
Technology, surveillance, records, and digital evidence all have value, but human sources can provide access, context, motivation, intent, structure, and future plans that may never appear in a report, database, or search warrant return.
This course teaches how high-value human sources are identified, developed, validated, and leveraged to support intelligence collection and criminal investigations.
The focus is not simply on “managing informants.” It is on building an intelligence capability.
You’ll learn how to recognize individuals with intelligence value, develop rapport, build long-term source relationships, validate information, separate truth from misinformation, and convert raw intelligence into investigative and operational opportunities.
Key Topics:
- Understanding human intelligence as a strategic advantage
- Identifying individuals with intelligence value
- Building rapport and long-term source relationships
- Developing high-value confidential informants
- Covert communications and clandestine meetings
- Validating and grading intelligence
- Separating reliable information from misinformation
- Converting raw intelligence into operational opportunities
Instructor:
Matthew Hedger is a subject matter expert in anti-money laundering, insider threat mitigation, and organized crime, with specialized expertise in the money laundering techniques of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations. A former U.S. intelligence officer with 17 years of service at the CIA and NSA, Matthew led sensitive operations across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
He operated for over 10 years undercover inside transnational organized crime networks, including infiltrating a 1%er outlaw motorcycle club and becoming a fully patched member, and cumulatively moved over $100 million throughout his career while posing as a money launderer across multiple transnational organized criminal groups, including a Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization, directly enabling the dismantling of narcotics, weapons, and money laundering operations.
Today, Matthew serves as a trusted keynote speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and financial institutions on emerging threats, financial crime, and organizational risk.