How to detect surveillance?

[Детективное агентство. Украина. Харьков. Львов.]

A lot of materials on the detection of outdoor surveillance have been posted on the Internet. Most of them are more like instructions for making this observation and make the reader painfully analyze a pile of information in order to independently develop tactics for detecting surveillance.

Let’s try to formulate some basic provisions so as not to clog your head with unnecessary thoughts in the future:

There are three types of observation: stationary (when you are being watched from pre-organized stationary posts), moving (you are being followed, running, riding, flying, swimming, crawling, etc.), mixed (a combination of the first two types).

Most likely, you will not be able to detect stationary monitoring of yourself. Do not waste vital energy on futile attempts. If you suspect that you are being watched from your neighbor’s window, it’s not possible to double-check these suspicions.

The chances of detecting mobile surveillance are much greater. But in order to carry out the identification effectively, it is necessary to realize the very essence of surveillance as a process.

The main task of the people watching you is to merge with the environment, dissolve in the crowd and behave as naturally as possible. For example, in the market they will be active buyers, vacationers in the park, and dormant passengers in public transport. And the more skillfully they cope with their task, the more illusory your hopes for their discovery.

But let's not lose heart. You also have trump cards that you can use.

There are two main ones. The first is knowing the signs that unmask your opponent. The second is the creation of conditions that provoke observers to unnatural behavior. There is still a third. But about him later ...

Both unmasking signs and the creation of provocative conditions directly depend on the way you move.

So, you move on foot, occasionally using the services of public transport.

A number of signs can be distinguished that unmask persons observing on foot.

- Repeating your driving route.

No comments. After all, they are following you.

- Some stiffness of movements, excitement.

Characteristic for inexperienced followers. They set themselves the dual, contradictory task of being as close to you as possible and at the same time remaining invisible to you. Without certain experience, it is not easy.

- Frequent calls by mobile phone. The movement of the lips, as if a person is talking to himself.

Persons following you are forced to communicate with each other in order to coordinate their actions. Depending on the technical means used (telephones, hidden radio stations), they give signs that unmask them.

- The desire to look away if you are trying to look into their eyes.

On average, human memory captures the appearance of another person for twenty to thirty minutes. This is how our psyche works. But if we look a person in the eye, we will remember him for a much longer period.

- Long stay in places of your residence or work of cars with people sitting inside.

Without a previously closed observation post, it’s not easy for a pedestrian to legendary their long stay under your home. It’s easier to take refuge in a car, especially if it has tinted windows.

- Changing the face of a person.

Persons following you can use various means of disguise (change clothes, wear glasses, hats, etc.) And if there are changes in the appearance of a person who has already come into your field of vision, this can be considered an alarm.

- Inconsistency of human behavior to the environment.

Any unnaturally behaving person should arouse suspicion. The degree of unnaturalness of his behavior you must evaluate yourself. For example, a person standing at a public transport stop behaves unnaturally if he does not get into an approaching transport. A running man looks strange in places of quiet walks of pedestrians. An unnatural person, not dressed for the weather. There can be countless options.

- The convergence of persons previously moving along the route one by one. And vice versa.

People sometimes want to exchange their impressions, to correct further tactics of observing you ... In short, they give you reason to suspect them of surveillance by their carelessness.

I would like to make a reservation right away; it’s very difficult to identify these signs. You must have an extraordinary memory and be observant. Learn the environment and remember. Keep in mind that the principle of natural behavior applies to you to the same extent as your secret spies.

Do not look back. Do not sharply change the direction of movement by 180 degrees. In a word, do not give a reason to change the tactics of observing you. Behave at ease, harmoniously blending into the environment.

Try to avoid crowded and deserted places. In the first case, detecting surveillance is not realistic. In the second, they will follow you from a distant position, or even leave them unattended, blocking the possible escape routes.

Choose a test route along the sparsely populated streets, preferably with no parallel.

Create natural conditions for viewing the space behind you:

- from stores through a glass showcase;
- crossing the street at intersections;
- simulating a stop to answer a mobile phone call;
- stopping a passerby, turning to him with a question.

Pay attention to the people in front of your driving route (they can observe from leading positions).

When moving in ground public transport, try to take a position on the rear platform in order to be able to control not only the interior, but also the next vehicle behind.

If your attempts were unsuccessful, you can try to provoke people watching you to certain actions. Ways to achieve can be very different.

- Exit for a walk in rainy weather under an umbrella.

Agree, it is unlikely that your love for walks in the rain is shared by people on your heels.

- A sudden entry into the entrance of the house, just around the corner of the building.

Climbing one flight of stairs, it is convenient to watch through the window how a lost satellite looks around you in confusion.

- Addressing a question to a person who has previously come into your field of vision.

If he really watches you, you will be pleasantly surprised to observe his vegetative reactions. Unless his nerves are steel ropes ...

- Movement in the opposite direction under a plausible pretext. For example, after a short visit to the store.

- Walk with family members and actively photographing them on the ground.

Pay special attention to those who turn away, or try not to get into the coverage area of the lens of your camera.

- The use of passage yards, the rapid bypass or detour of which is excluded.

In doing so, pay attention to the people who enter the yard after you and leave it shortly after you.

- Pass the metro train, being on the platform of a small metro station.

The person following you is unlikely to leave without you in a subway car. Most likely, it will either remain on the platform or try to hide behind the column.

- Deliberate abandonment of an object, say, on a park bench, with the possibility of subsequent visual control over it (for example, from the pharmacy window opposite).

There will, of course, be a lot of curious people ... But the surveillance staff are usually the most curious and quick of them.

These simple techniques are very effective and make it possible to draw certain conclusions regarding the presence of observation.

To be continued…

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

THANK!

 

[Частный детектив. Олег.]

It is written correctly, but of course it is very concise. You can write a whole book about it.
A few additions, with your permission.
All of these countermeasures must have some purpose.

1. Just avoiding surveillance (detachment, so to speak), is available mainly to persons with unspoken work skills.
2. Identification of the surveillance itself as a fact.
Further, it all depends on your intentions. You can show the followers that you noticed them, or you can not show them, but draw conclusions for yourself. And you can not show and drive by the nose, on false routes, addresses and communications.
You can disorganize them and show them that they are "decrypted." As a rule, after that, N / A is immediately removed or suspended for some time. And you can use your people to arrange counter-surveillance and find out what kind of people and their goals. You can incite the prosecutor’s office or the police; here again, facts are needed (documentation).

 

[Бедеров Игорь Сергеевич]

For most, it will be difficult to practice. But really work out a daily route for a break. Just a couple of control points. The city center is full of them. You can go into one front door, and go to the other end of the building and to another street. It is also possible to enter a place from where you can control how the follower rushes after you.

 

[Детективное агентство ИКС-Инфо.]

A few objections to colleague "ma6yc"
- if the route is daily and the places of "separation" are the same - the next day they will be met at the exit point (will be triggered by the network),
- in the city center you can circle until you turn blue, the same network will take off at key points,
- if the “foreman” is competent and “locksmith” sensible - not a single passage will save, it’s not realistic to see the change of “locksmiths”, unless the connection is lost and they switched to grandfather methods ??
Oleg’s colleague correctly noted: “All of these countermeasures must have some purpose.”!
Well, roam and let yourself roam - they have such a job.
The topic itself is generally interesting, but for the layman nothing more than informative. And in 50%, if they begin to practice the detection of n / a, they will “tear the roof” from the persecution mania.
But sharing experience would be interesting.

 

[Бедеров Игорь Сергеевич]

Novel! Such places need to be chosen throughout the city in order to be able to always be checked. I’ll see surveillance, because he followed. The rest will be easier to check at a checkpoint. Once, a killer left me after an unsuccessful attempt. Just competently planning a route. Shot - in the yards, there is a sea of parasites, from one to the window, another courtyard and goes directly to the subway.

Another option, now relevant. People do not see that more or less experienced sinkers are watching them. But they will always see that a car with 2-4 sticking heads goes behind them.

The grid will not work in the case of detectives - there are very few people, unlike the seven.

 

[Игорь Коракс]

Thank! The article is as complete as it should be in the public domain.

It seems to me, if there is a desire to measure and share experience and technologies in this area, it is worth moving to another section.

 

[@InfoPoisk]

The topic is needed.
But practice is still necessary, or the development of certain skills.
In principle, everyone who has ever worked cuts down their tails, but if an experienced top-up is difficult to get away from, it’s easier to open.

 

[Частный детектив Краснослободцев Дмитрий Николаеви]

If a person knows (suspects) that he is being watched, he becomes unpredictable and it is almost impossible to track his travel routes, unless of course you keep track of about a week.

 

[Частный детектив. Тайный советник. Омск.]

Thank. I read the article with pleasure and read the comments of our colleagues with no less pleasure. Indeed, the topic is necessary, useful, interesting and informative.