Chapter 5 Questions - Foot surveillance

 

1. Analyse the four phases of a surveillance operation and the surveillance cycle.

 

• Stake out

• Pick up

• Follow

• Housing

• Cyclic phases

 

2. Where is a good place for a foot handover

 

• Corner

• Side streets

• Doorways

• Bridges

• Entering premises

 

3. When should you carry out a foot handover

 

• Heat states

• Stops

• Long follows

• Corners

• Public transport

• 4. Whether you are on foot or in a car, why should the answer to “Back-up can you at…” always be “Yes Yes”!

•  No longer backing

• Quick handovers

• Correct voice procedure

 

5. What should you consider before following a subject around a corner

 

• Clearing

• Stop

• Safe

• Route

• Handover

 

6. What should the Trigger not do on a standby

 

• React

• Mirrors

• Commentary

 

7. Identify what options you need to consider if your target enters a shop and appears to still be in there after 30 minutes. What is your decision process?

 

• Exits

• Drive by

• Walk past

• Enter

• Loss v Gain

• Anti surveillance

 

8. If you are operating ‘two up’ and you have been dropped off to go foxtrot, where should you normally get picked up and why?

 

• Location

• Communications

• Mobile phone

• Radio network

• Simplicity

 

9. If you lose your target, what do you have to consider in respect of remaining covert whilst carrying out a search?

 

• Awareness

• Body language

• Mannerisms

• Sudden sightings

 

10. Identify why we should ‘clear’ a phone box used by the target and what precautions should be made whist doing so.

 

• Intelligence

• Marking call

• Anti-surveillance

• Counter surveillance

 

11. You are on your own and the target turns a corner, how do you deal with it?

 

• Route

• Clear

• Parallels

• Stop

• Safe

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12. Describe how you would determine a targets destination if he enters a train station.

 

• Urgency

• Look

• Listen

• Pretext

• Machine

• Counter

• Platform

• Conductor

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13. Identify why it can be bad practice for one person to buy train tickets for the rest of the surveillance team.

 

• Compromise

• Cross contamination

• Counter or Anti surveillance

 

14. Assess the communication considerations necessary for public transport surveillance and suggest solutions.

 

• Power lines

• Earpiece

• Relay

• Click system

• Mobile phone

• WhatsApp

• Location status

 

15. With reference to team positioning, analyse key actions and considerations necessary in the event of a surveillance target waiting for and boarding a bus.

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• Urgency

• Payment options

• Bus number

• Terminal Destination

• Destination

• Correct identification

• Communications

• Seating

• Back up

• Mobile locations

• Bus stop

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16. With reference to team positioning, analyse key actions and considerations necessary in the event of a surveillance target moving towards and heading into an underground train station.

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• Urgency

• Payment options

• Communications

• Relay

• Line

• Cardinal direction

• Destination

• Losses

• Back up

• Mobile locations

• Radio check

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17. With reference to team positioning, analyse key actions and considerations necessary in the event of a surveillance target entering a taxi.

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• Type: Private Hire, Uber, Black Cab, Addison Lee
  Taxi lanes & cut though’s

• Details

• Registration

• Advertising

• Company

• Follow

• Second taxi

• Mobile team

• Urgency

• Payment options

• Identify Destination

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End of Chapter 5 Questions