The main signs of preparing a criminal assault

[Детективное агентство. Украина. Харьков. Львов.]

BASIC SIGNS FOR PREPARING A CRIMINAL REPRESENTATIVE TO A PROTECTED PERSON

Attempts of a criminal attack on a protected person, containing a threat to his dignity, health and life, may come from the following categories of criminals:

Random robbers using a situation that is beneficial to them.

Criminal elements that manifest themselves in a conflict situation, which, to some extent, is provoked by the protected person or his environment (conflicts in a restaurant, casino, traffic situation, etc.).

Regional racketeering gangs. For example, a refusal to offer a “roof”, to share a share of income, may provoke an attempt to make an obstinate businessman more complaisant.

Professional "killers" - loners and groups executing an order for murder in favor of a third party. This is the most dangerous category of criminals programmed to successfully conduct an operation and trying to achieve their goal at all costs. Fulfill the order in favor of a third party.

Representatives of international terrorist organizations.

Attempted assassination of a protected person on household soil is not ruled out.
This is usually the result of a banal love triangle, or an attempt to place on the side of the rejected object of passion.
An attempt on the life of a protected person may also be attempted by an employee of his own enterprise (usually with obvious mental deviations), offended by the unfair, in his opinion, dismissal or dissatisfied with a delayed salary.
Threat of exposure.
The threat of exposure from the first two groups belongs to the category of random risk and is usually easily removed if there is a sufficiently experienced, equipped group of bodyguards (at least two people) and its decisive actions (which is facilitated by the constant development of training situations).
The elimination of threats from the third group of criminals (the impact of regional criminal groups) can contribute to:
- A trained, with a permanent composition, and not temporarily acting, team of bodyguards;
- the presence in the enterprise, which is guarded by a guarded, sufficiently powerful security service;
- creation of an integrated security system at this enterprise, including the work of the analytical department to monitor the criminal situation in the region;
- Well-established relations with law enforcement agencies, the FSB (KGB) and the police department, which can affect the leaders of the criminal group, force them to abandon their plan at the initial stage.
With a well-functioning security system, the first two groups of offenders can be successfully neutralized.
It is extremely difficult to resist criminal attacks by regional criminal groups, killers and terrorists, and in the absence of a trained team of bodyguards and our own security service, it is even impossible.
It is very difficult to foresee and localize the sixth hazard category (for domestic reasons).

Consider the actions of the most dangerous category of offenders.
Each phase of a targeted criminal assault directed against a protected person or his immediate environment has its own distinctive features and signs.

The implementation of the crime. Directed against life, can be divided into three phases, which have their own constituent elements:
1. Preparatory phase:
a) intelligence;
b) preparation of conditions for the implementation of the crime, the selection of performers.
2. Targeted criminal impact.
3. The final phase.

PREPARATORY PHASE is composed of the intelligence phase and the preparation phase for the implementation of the crime. Moreover, they can be carried out both sequentially and parallel to each other.
After accepting the order for the murder, the criminals begin a thorough preparation for the operation. First of all, the collection of information begins. What interests the criminal in the first place? These are three aspects of the information “who?”, “Where?”, “When?”.

Where and how do criminals collect preliminary information during the preparatory phase?

Primary information is usually provided by the customer. He expands her dependence on knowledge of the object. If the customer is close enough to the protected person, he can specify, specify the information necessary for the contractor, since at this stage of cooperation between the customer and the offender can be quite close.
Of course, criminals will in every possible way avoid contacts that can “identify” them, but nevertheless, at this stage, with the security service working fairly thoroughly, you can trace the connection between the criminal and the customer, or vice versa.

Further information is usually collected by the method:
- outdoor monitoring of the object, which is carried out both stationary and mobile (escort on the route);
- the study of maps, diagrams, driving routes, buildings with a specific "reference" on the ground;
- the use of listening devices that can be easily mounted on telephones and other equipment, or the installation of secret radio microphones, infrared transmitters, micro transmitters mounted in pens, calculators, electrical outlets, plugs, plugs, cartridge adapter pads and table lamps;
- “provoking” alarming situations in order to identify deficiencies in the scheme of protective measures to ensure the security of the protected person.
It could be:
a) a doorbell in the guise of a postman, a policeman or with the help of “fraud” persons (women or children);
b) creating an “unintentional” traffic situation (attempt to stop the car). Options used: vehicle breakdown - help needed; "A person is bad" - you need to be taken to a hospital; false mobile “traffic police post” - verification of documents, etc.);
c) an attempt to enter the office (another location of the guarded one) under the guise of a repairman from ZhEK, an employee of a telephone exchange, etc.
d) an attempt to establish special equipment that provides the ability to listen;
e) bribery, identification of “offended” employees or an attempt to talk to someone from the immediate environment, the service personnel of the protected person under the guise of a talkative oncoming person or fellow traveler;
f) work through informants, which may be criminal elements, "working" in the area;
g) the introduction of "their" person in the staff of the enterprise of the protected person (including for key positions), in the maintenance personnel of the places of temporary stay of the protected person, etc.);
h) conducting false negotiations, false partnership, calling for various showdowns, “arrows”, etc .;
i) collecting information through corrupt employees of state and law enforcement agencies.
All such actions can be carried out quite actively, up to an attack on bodyguards, but the goal is only one - to find a weak spot in the security system of the protected person.

By analyzing the above events, it is possible to determine the main signs of the intelligence activities of criminals, which allow you to identify a crime at an early stage.

Signs of impending criminal exposure will be:
- detected external observation of the object - the facts of the photo or video taken stationary or on the route are determined using the methods of counter-surveillance;
- An attempt to remove information using technical means. It is determined by physical and technical means of search (methods of active and passive protection of communications and objects);
- an attempt by unauthorized persons to get into the object of the permanent residence of the guarded one, the finding of things or vehicles “forgotten” by unauthorized persons, unreasonably left in front of the building for some time;
- provocation of protection.

Signs of intelligence work can be detected by people who are not related to the security service, and therefore bodyguards must be able to establish trusting relationships, establish contacts, have the skills of an orientation survey, and have the widest possible range of information sources (as a rule, this is the work of a group providing a team of bodyguards, analytical department).
The security service, including bodyguards, as already mentioned, should work to identify possible customers of the criminal act from among the "well-wishers" and obvious enemies of the guarded, on the basis of "who benefits from it." Information that a possible ill-wisher has begun searching for contacts with criminal elements or is in contact with them should alert the personal security personnel and requires further development.

As mentioned above, criminals can contact the customer only at the very initial stage.
During the collection of information, criminals determine the options for possible criminal impact on the protected person or his environment, based on the identification of weaknesses in the work of the guard and their own capabilities. This can be close fire contact or the use of knives, distance damage (sniper), use of a situation related to transport or outside it, the possibility of using explosive devices, toxic substances, an imitation of an accident, the abduction of a guarded or someone from his immediate environment .
If the killer is a loner or a criminal group specializing in a narrow profile, then options are selected for the already existing "style" of committing a crime.
Criminals determine the degree of risk and the likelihood of a successful implementation of the intended crime. But in the presence of sufficiently serious measures of physical protection and preventive countermeasures. At this stage, criminals can abandon the plan or demand an increase in fees from the customer, which he may not “pull”.
If the final decision is nevertheless made, a crime plan is drawn up, an alibi is thought out, and the criminals proceed to the next phase - to prepare the conditions for the implementation of targeted criminal encroachment.
Starting from this stage, criminals, as a rule, cease all communication with the customer, “the car is running, the wheels begin to spin.” And even if the customer is identified, it will be very difficult for the security service to prevent a crime by “pressure” on him, since, most likely, he simply will not be able to contact the contractor.
Having created real conditions for the implementation of the crime plan, criminals begin, in accordance with it, specific preparatory work, which, as a rule, includes drawing up a plan and a scheme of specific actions, forming a criminal group (attracting specialists of a "narrow" profile, if necessary), distribution of roles ( observation, execution, provision of evacuation: cover groups and vehicles).

The material and technical base for the commission of the planned crime is being prepared:
- the issue of weapons is being resolved (as a rule, illegal, “non-illuminated” weapons are used), the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the acquisition of explosive substances (BB), special devices (binoculars, night vision devices), poisonous substances (OB) are acquired etc., that is, the preparation of the instrument of crime is being carried out;
- the issue of transport is being resolved (the car most often used at the last moment is used);
- if necessary, fake documents, police uniforms, etc. are acquired or made;
- if necessary, rented an apartment with the desired viewing sector;
- rehearsed various options for action with detailed phased timing at facilities with a similar layout or directly on the site (route) of the alleged criminal assault.
There may be attempts to blackmail, intimidate or bribe someone from the immediate environment of the protected person (most often from the guard or the driver), people who have access to medicines, food of the protected person, so that with the help of an accomplice they can successfully realize their plans.

Based on the signs of creating conditions for committing a targeted criminal impact, the measures for their detection are also determined. These include all of the listed reconnaissance phases and, accordingly, the measures taken to detect them, described above, and, in addition, are identified:
- external signs of training to practice special tactical and technical techniques;
- possible facts of abandoned cars, closed stalls, garbage cans and other items that could be filled with explosives in the future and near the client’s permanent stay to check the security response. Work near the places of stay and on the routes of technical pseudo-brigades, under the guise of which you can quietly concentrate the participants of the criminal group (this also checks the reaction of the guard);
- signs of a possible connection of the environment of the protected person with criminal elements.
At this stage, it is still possible to identify and, therefore, prevent an impending crime, with the proper organization of monitoring by the client escort group and during the preventive work of the support group.
If the preparation of the crime is not detected in the first two stages, then the prerequisites are created for committing a targeted criminal impact.

In the implementation phase, preventing crime is very difficult. Fire attacks are characterized (if we talk about melee distances, using automatic weapons) transience and dynamism. In order to neutralize the direct protection and kill (steal) the protected person, two, maximum five seconds are enough. Moreover, the sniper can be quite far away and have a lot of time to evacuate, and pressing the button that initiates the explosion generally takes tenths of a second.
Therefore, talking about the ability to confront criminals in the implementation phase is possible only under the following conditions:
1. Ensuring the security of the protected person by a specially trained team of bodyguards, who must have a real run-in in combat or operational conditions, able to detect the primary signs of the crime.
2. Uncoordinated, unprofessional actions of criminals (attackers can also fail with excessive self-confidence, especially if previous crimes were successful).
3. The third factor is His Majesty A case that can never be ruled out at work, and which can play into the hands of both criminals and the security group of the protected person.

The primary phases of the crime:
1. Gathering of group members in a specific place (this, as a rule, is preceded by a gathering to clarify the plan and make possible adjustments).
2. Movement to the place of intended action and arrangement of participants according to a well-thought-out scheme.
3. The distraction of the security forces or the task force of the nearest police station on false or distracting calls.
4. Preparation of the weapon of criminal assault (assembling and alerting weapons, alerting the position of a sniper, installing a car or other object stuffed with explosives on the route of the protected person, placing cars in the places where the ambush was being prepared or for staging a traffic accident).
Signs of the primary phase of the crime may include:
- the presence of people with inappropriate behavior (nervousness, increased attention to the object where the protected person may appear);
- external signs of members of a criminal group. It can be a weapon visible under clothes, a specific uniform (sports equipment of “cool” guys, police uniform or overalls for repairmen) or vice versa - crowds are too inconspicuous;
- turn off telephone lines, alarms, lights in the dark;
- call a task force providing enhanced security services to a remote area;
- non-arrival at work of the most experienced (usually senior) employee of the bodyguard group, able to organize security guards to repel the attack and identify its primary external signs (an attempt to neutralize the older one somewhat earlier is possible);
- distraction of bodyguards at the moment preceding the attack by any action (for example, a request for help coming from a woman, a fight of “drunk” people in the immediate vicinity of the location of the protected person);
- sudden “disappearance” without sufficiently convincing motivation of any of their immediate surroundings by the protected person (someone who might be suspected of being a “gunner” or a customer, or a person who has already planted an improvised explosive device that used a poisonous substance);
- sudden “illness”, absence of any of the personal security personnel without good reason, replacement of the driver of the car of the protected person, etc.

Good prevention is putting dissonance in the plans of criminals, destroying these plans at the last moment. Such actions may include:
Instability, unpredictability of bodyguards, for example:
- withdrawal of the protected person each time through different doors;
- car parking not only in the immediate vicinity of the exit, but also in different places and at different angles;
- constant change of route;
- Constant additional strengthening of places of frequent visits by guarded ones, preliminary “cleaning” of places not only within the same entrance, at the house where his apartment is located, but also in the adjacent quarters;
- periodic imitation of the bustle of personal protection related to the false exit of the guarded (periodic start and stop of the engine of the machine, exit with inspection and return of the bodyguard, etc.).

But, as noted earlier, sad practice shows that if a criminal act has begun, then with sufficiently professional actions of criminals, it ends, as a rule, with the implementation of their intentions.

Very often, the guilty of a “successful”, from the point of view of criminals, resolution of the situation is the guarded persons themselves who openly neglect the recommendations of their bodyguards and put them in such conditions when not only the guarded person is consciously substituted, but also his guard.
From all of the above, it is clear that the best option that saves the life of the protected person and bodyguards is to identify signs of crime preparation at a fairly early stage, which requires the work of the entire security system of the protected person.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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