Advanced Surveillance & Intelligence Operators Course

Trojan Securities advanced surveillance, intelligence gathering & counter surveillance operations course, designed for operating in hostile environments.

The basic and advanced surveillance course is designed at conducting surveillance, counter surveillance and intelligence operations in hostile environments, with an emphasis on successfully detecting hostile or third party activities. The training course will cover the basics and gradually move onto intermediate and advanced areas of surveillance, intelligence gathering and counter surveillance techniques.

• Surveillance observation & awareness

• Surveillance definitions & objectives

• Surveillance techniques (static, mobile foot & mobile vehicles)

• Anti & counter surveillance techniques

• Threat assessments, threat analysis & target identification process

• Intelligence gathering & surveillance detection

• Terrorist & hostile surveillance

• Surveillance operations planning

During training course students will be made aware of the methods of operation used by various terrorists groups and how to detect and defeat these said measures. All the course skills are then put into practice by carrying out supervised surveillance and intelligence exercises. 

Basic Surveillance Overview

• Introduction of surveillance and intelligence gathering operations

  • What is surveillance

  • Who would impose surveillance

  • Why the use of surveillance

• General Surveillance awareness

  • Observation & situation awareness

• Roles and responsibilities of surveillance operators

• Types of surveillance (static, mobile foot, mobile vehicle)  

  • Static observation

  • Mobile surveillance, on foot & vehicles

  • Technical surveillance

• Surveillance techniques (mobile foot & mobile vehicle)

  • Individual operators

  • Pairs

  • Small teams

• Communications while working surveillance operations  

  • Different types of communication equipment

  • Overt & covert communications

• Navigation & map reading  

  • Intelligence gathering

  • Route reconnaissance

Static Surveillance

• Rural surveillance operations

• Urban surveillance operations

Mobile Foot Surveillance

• Conducting foot surveillance as an individual

• Conducting foot surveillance as a team

• Use of public transport within surveillance and intelligence operations

Mobile Vehicle Surveillance

• Surveillance driving introduction, roles and responsibilities

• Introduction to mobile surveillance, individual & small teams

• Mobile surveillance, multiple vehicles

• Use of public transport within mobile surveillance operations

Mobile Foot & Vehicle Surveillance 

• Using mobile foot and mobile vehicle skills together

• Surveillance and intelligence gathering active exercises

Intermediate/ Advanced Overview

• Setting up a surveillance and intelligence operations room  

  • Personnel

  • Logistics requirements

  • Operations planning

  • Operations execution

• Close target reconnaissance (CTR)  

• Surveillance detection

  • Observation skills

  • Surveillance indicators

• Surveillance teams (multiple teams)

• Terrorist & hostile surveillance  

  • Terrorist phases of surveillance

  • Surveillance indicators & routine analysis

  • In depth person & vehicle descriptions 

  • Information collection & gathering

• Night surveillance operations

• Anti surveillance techniques

• Counter surveillance techniques

Anti Surveillance

• How to conduct anti surveillance techniques

• Anti surveillance operations using skills taught

Counter Surveillance

• How to conduct a counter surveillance operation
• Counter surveillance exercise using all skills taught

Personal Security

The personal security phase is designed to teach the student preventative measures to be used in everyday life to safeguard against becoming a potential target.

• Situation awareness
  • Residential, office & traveling
  • Surveillance detection techniques
• Kidnap awareness & situations
  • Threat assessments
  • Target identification
• Security procedures (home, office & traveling)
  • Improving security measures
• Reaction to possible threats
• Dealing with confrontations

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