Tracking

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Tracking

Follow people is necessary for a specific purpose:

• their detailed development for the alleged recruitment, exposure (theft, espionage, treason), etc .;
• access to the wanted person, who possibly has contact (or may have contact) with the object;
• detecting like-minded facility.

The person conducting the surveillance should have, if possible: an inconspicuous appearance, good memory, good endurance, steel endurance, lightning fast reaction, one hundred percent vision, excellent hearing, a pronounced ability to improvise and navigate the situation.

Given that the periodic appearance of the same persons can alert the object, it is necessary to alternate means of disguising yourself - false glasses, retractable bags and bags, inverted jackets, constantly updated hats. It must be remembered that sometimes it is preferable to lose the object of surveillance than to be visible and ultimately to be detected.

How to install surveillance?

As a rule, from three to eight people and a certain number of cars take part in professional, high-class observation. Two or three people usually sit in each of the cars, and it is desirable that one of them be a woman. The agents communicate with each other by means of radio communications (which can sometimes be very difficult to do in public), simple remote control of local electric shocks, and, of course, through a well-thought-out and pre-negotiated special visual code.

All signs used in tracking code are oriented towards naturalness and in one of the advertised options look, for example, like this:

• “Object stands” - arms crossed behind;
• “The object turned left” - the left hand rests on the left thigh;
• “The object turned right” - the right hand rests on the right thigh;
• “The object crosses the street” - a half-turn to the side with bending of one arm at the chest;
• “The object turned around and goes in the opposite direction” - one hand is brought to the head;
• “The object has gone out of control” - both hands rise to the head;
• “I need to change” - a focused look at the watch with an imitation of surprise.

Any creeps of the surveillance object and its contacts (route, car numbers, train schedules), if possible, are dictated to a miniature pocket voice recorder, and upon completion of the surveillance, they will be recorded in detail on paper.

How to follow a person?

An agent conducting surveillance and surveillance needs to be able to pinpoint his pursued object in a crowd of people and, guided by the data collected so far, it is good to know his daily wardrobe, gait, preferred routes, residential addresses (relatives, cottage, friends and acquaintances): a typical daily routine, frequent contactees, make, color and license plate numbers of used vehicles.

Covert observation of the person you are interested in should be performed while tuning for a specific task, since the general installation for observation is less productive than a clear defined task. The method of visual control greatly depends both on your personal capabilities and your goal, as well as on the accompanying conditions, including the degree of alertness (sophistication) of the pursued object.

Pedestrian Tracking Methods

Chain

Only 1 agent directly monitors the pursued object, and all the rest are stretched behind the chain, each of the subsequent agents being guided by the previous one. Contact between the links of the agent is carried out by radio (preferably satellite) or visual code, and the distance between them depends on specific external factors (on empty, uninhabited streets - more, on quite crowded - less ...). In case of accidental disclosure of the main leading agent, he must immediately give way to the second agent and, moving away from visual contact, use personal masking tools.

Double chain

This option is scrolled on crowded streets with a large number of people, and it is characterized by the fact that followers walk on both sides of the main road, occasionally moving from one side to the other. Sometimes they can walk along the streets in parallel, marking the object of observation at the intersections of the street and maintaining contact with the main agent on the walkie-talkie.

Ahead

In this technique, followers are sometimes ahead of the pursued object, which thus appears between them, which provides the most dense, and therefore the most effective observation.

With connection

Persecutors occupy (as a rule, transported by transport) optimal places on the path of the alleged movement of the object and actively join the tracking at various points of its movement. This is advisable in a situation where it is very difficult not to attract too much other people's attention.

Network

In unpleasant moments of the sudden loss of the pursued object, the entire nearby area is covered by a ring, which, after finding the cherished goal, is again stretched into the previous standard chain.

Tight with safety net

Being present in places with the greatest concentration of people (at stations, in shopping centers, in subways or the metro), you can not avoid getting close to the pursued object, which is usually carried out by one or two agents, while others are outside and passively control all inputs and outputs. Here, as always, it is not recommended to intersect with the observed eyes.

One-time with transfer

An agent from the tracking group enters the cafe, restaurant, and tavern together with the object, sits not far from it, and, simply without entering into any conversations, leaves the institution directly behind it. After the exit, the object is “transferred” to other agents, and the controller that is lit here, if possible, is removed from the next observation.

Sometimes it happens that an experienced person tries to "check", trying to identify nearby people who are constantly appearing or to notice in the actions of some people around them a certain oddity in unnatural behavior. Counter-observation is carried out with the involvement of another individual or without the help of others, using reflective surfaces (mirrors, shop windows), observation from buildings (from the window of an apartment or staircase), and simply through a reasonable turn of the head (inspection of products on the tray, simulating loss some important subject).

Peculiarities in neighborly behavior are sometimes revealed by sharp “zigzags” of their movements (sudden changes in the direction of movement and pace; leaving the cinema at the beginning of the session) with a note of the reaction of people around them.

Vehicle Tracking Methods

Tracking a moving car essentially resembles pedestrian surveillance. Here, as a rule, several cars are used, of different colors and soft appearance, some of which move along parallel streets and are connected to the working situation using a walkie-talkie. “Sitting on the tail” of a car driving ahead is permissible only for hundreds, from a couple of thousand meters of force, after which a mandatory separation will be required with the next car being connected to the tracking. In order to avoid annoying surprises, you should be very well aware of all the technical capabilities (turning radius and speed of gaining speed), road characteristics of the road in a given section of the district, level of professionalism and driver’s habits.

When a prudent surveillance object is overly alert or afraid of something, he can try to slip away from the expected control using template techniques for this, for example: changing the rhythm, direction and type of movement; the creation of certain barriers behind; lulling the vigilance of followers.

Quite often, they use tricks such as:

• Long looping in crowded (clothing markets, metro, train stations) places.
• The use of walkways, courtyards or apartments and other back doors.
• Constant change of vehicles.
• Transitions in the subway from one line to another.
• Use of labyrinthine routes.
• Sudden acceleration after turning around the corner with the intention of slipping much further than would be expected at normal walking speed.
• Sudden abandonment of a racing vehicle.
• Unpredictable passage to the red light of a traffic light or under a falling railway barrier.
• Creating an impression of accompanying movement in a well-known direction and the sudden disappearance from the proposed route.
• A sharp entrance and exit from public transport at the time of closing of its doors.
• Changes in appearance and gait in short periods of reasonable slipping away from visual control (in the porch, in the toilet, with friends).
• Open aggression against the identified agent with the prospect of inciting a public scandal.

In case of sudden disappearance of the object of surveillance, it is advisable not to twitch at random, but after waiting a bit, take under careful control all possible places of its appearance.

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