Bill W Spikes

Surveillance Operator's Aide Memoire: Instructor's Sample Test Questions and Precis Bill W Spikes

Publisher Marketing: The 'Surveillance Operator's Aide Memoire' will help you prepare for any surveillance course and help you establish your surveillance operations on a firm foundation for long term success in your chosen career. This aide memoire was written based upon experiences gained in the UK SF and afterwards instructing surveillance to a Gulf State SF unit. Surveillance skills were needed to gather intelligence and also to survive in hostile urban environments. The course associated with these lessons was designed to assist a surveillance team apply its resources in the most cost effective manner. And as a manager with a surveillance remit you have to ask the following questions: How much of your budget is spent effectively? How much effort is duplicated and wasted because of inadequately trained staff? How many of your operations fail because of poor training? Is the infamous 'On the Job Training' (OTJT) sufficient for today's well-structured, fast moving world? Operational failures are not only embarrassing and costly but can be life threatening. This book lays out the fundamentals of foot and mobile surveillance and this knowledge is augmented with the following: The Surveillance Process Anti and Counter-Surveillance The Preparation of Cover Stories Communications Memory Training Surveillance is a practical skill but with a good theoretical understanding you will perform much better as an individual and also as a member of a co-ordinated team.