Combative Surveillance and Counter Surveillance Course

Subjects from the Course Outline:

Surveillance and Counter Surveillance

• Surveillance detection skills
• Counter espionage and hostile gathering of information                               
• Accomplice and support network 
• Terrorist security procedures
• Terrorist bases and hiding places 
• Deception by terrorists while gathering intelligence
• Israeli method of surveillance detection
• How terrorists prioritize targets
• Using daily logs and detection matrixes
• Planning and executing counter surveillance operations
• Exercises in functioning as “terrorists” performing surveillance
• Use of technical surveillance tools such as audio, video, wire tapping, binoculars
• Surveillance deception
• Urban and rural surveillance and counter surveillance techniques
• Losing surveillance by foot or vehicle
• Intricate surveillance exercises
• Planning and briefing
• Foot and Mobile surveillance methods
• Recognizing surveillance teams
• Covert and Overt surveillance deterence 
• Covert and Overt counter surveillance
• Counter surveillance routes
• Counter electronic surveillance
• Realistic practical exercises
• Surveillance objectives
• Planning and surveillance
• Types of surveillance (mobile, discreet, fixed, technical, cold delivery vs. controlled delivery)
• Surveillance map reading
• Use of cover
• Surveillance phases (pickup, follow, housing)
• Night surveillance
• Communication
• Foot surveillance (use of cover, switched on/switched off, use of vehicles, dress and mannerisms)
• Surveillance driving
• Air support (assistance and concerns)
• Team dynamics (team work, duties of indiviual team members, coordination)
• Conclusion
• Purpose and aim of operation planning
• Tasks
• Intelligence gathering
• Information needed prior to beginning the operation and where to obtain it
• Threat assessment
• Logistics
• Staff
• Equipment
• Means of transport
• Permanent and temporary installations
• Criteria for the selection of accommodation, venues, means of transport and routes
• Controlled visits at various sites (periods of time, controlling the site, controlled visit report)
• Operational plan (purpose, elements and writing the operation plan)
• Establishing security procedures (standard, emergency, distribution of functions inside the detail)
• Operation center (establishing and running)
• Operation briefing (introduction of the team and establishing readiness)
• Purpose and aim of reconnaissance and counter surveillance (protective surveillance)
• Tasks of the enforcing units
• Forms of reconnaissance (route, installation and area)
• Reconnaissance measures (pre and post, covert/open, stationary/mobile)
• Carrying out reconnaissance
• Recognizing surveillance vantage points, choke points and weaknesses of routes and installations
• Splitting of reconnaissance sectors
• Flow chart, color system, dictating machine, optical means and computers as support
• Suspicious signs, recognizing surveillance attempts (terrorist surveillance tactics) and counter surveillance
• Planning the operation
• Writing the reconnaissance report
• Advance work, reconnaissance and counter surveillance
• Foot, Mobile & Static surveillance
• Surveillance and counter surveillance exercises
• Tactical response to overt/covert surveillance
• Final exercise in and around the city

 Cultural Debriefing and Understanding

• Overt and covert operations for anti terrorism
• How and when to use/not use translators
• Body language (Islamic and other)
• Procedures when working with informants
• Arab dress codes
• Driving patterns in convert operations
• Cultural analysis
• Language pattern analysis
• Traffic flow analysis
• Loyalties to groups
• Development of association matrixes
• Overt and covert collection of information
• Mode of transportation
• Tactical intelligence

   Countering Threats & Terrorists Tactics

• Use of car bombs
• Detecting car bombs
• Detecting suicide bombers
• Disarming a suicide bomber before detonation
• Jamming radio frequencies used to detonate roadside devices
• Detecting heat signatures of explosives (night)
• Various terrorist ambush methods 
• Countering enemy snipers and sharpshooters
• Protection from and functioning under Molotov Cocktail attacks
• Case studies on terrorist tactics from Israel
• Functioning in abduction situations

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