Surveillance
Surveillance can be best described as the systematic art of following or watching an individual or specific location. it is an integral part of the security work. Surveillance is difficult, time consuming, and requires a lot of personnel and equipment. Normally surveillance deals with people, however, places or things are surveilled if they relate to people or activities. Surveillance can provide information about a person's activities. It can show where the suspect activities take place. It can verify the reliability of an idividual providing information, commonly referred to as a source. Surveillance can also be used when providing executive protection or performing duties as a bodyguard. Usually a person under surveillance is called subject, a location, place or event under surveillance is called a target. There are three general types of surveillance . 1) Mobile Surveillance 2) Fixed Surveillance 3) Electronic Surveillance There's one rule that every investigator should alw