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Surveillance Book Description - Pros know that the real secret of surveillance lies in the skill of the operators, not in high-tech gadgets. This book is for the true practitioners of the craft. It focuses on tactics that can only be learned from stalking the streets and standing in the shadows.

Surveillance Book Description - Learn to detect and evade surveillance efforts that threaten your personal security. These time-tested tactics of observation, detection and evasion are proven effective against the most sophisticated surveillance techniques used in the world.

From the Publisher - The past decade has seen closed circuit television (CCTV) technology emerge as a distinct entity within the large and developing security industry. Its successful implementation requires understanding of many technical disciplines, all of which are detailed in this book. From scene illumination, to signal transmission, to display and recording technology, CCTV Surveillance is the only book available which teaches all the aspects of CCTV. CCTV has become the crucial ingredient in the overall security system. Just as the proverb 'a picture is worth a thousand words' applies in everyday life, so too does the CCTV picture provide the essential ingredient to the successful security system. CCTV Surveillance is written in a format useful to the student interested in security, the system designer, consultant, architect and engineer, as well as the end user-management or the security director. Each chapter begins with an overview of the subject for the manager and security director, and proceeds with the theory, design and hardware information essential for successful implementation. All chapters are well illustrated - diagrams, tables, photographs to provide complete information for all reader categories. A comprehensive glossary defines terms generic to CCTV and electro-optics and aids to understand the subject.

Surveillance Book Description - The most interesting - and lucrative - aspect of private investigations is surveillance. This manual teaches you the nuts and bolts of the craft: how to uncover information by tailing a subject and documenting his actions in photographs or videotape. Learn what it's like on the streets, as well as what equipment and tools you'll need for each job.

Surveillance Book Description - Developing a team of experts that can successfully gather intelligence in the backwoods for hours, days or weeks at a time requires officers who show real commitment and a leader with vision. Former Special Forces officer and counterintelligence agent Van Ritch recognized the dire need for local law enforcement agencies to be able to cover all the ground in their jurisdictions and wrote this book for any organization or individual who needs to conduct searches or surveillance in a rural environment. In it, you will learn how to plan a mission, assemble a team, handle the environment, move covertly, maintain constant security and more. Crime doesn't stop where the pavement ends. If you must have access to every corner of your territory, you need this guide.

Surveillance Book Description - This eye-opening book will show you how corporate spies gather info on you with phone taps, bugs, hidden mics and video recorders and then use it against you in business and in court. Then it shows you how to catch them in the act and use their own technology against them!

Surveillance Book Description - This book highlights "mundane" practices that increasingly influence our schools, homes and communities; cameras, "pagers", electronic monitoring instruments, the digital "paper trail" of "cashless" transactions, random drug testing, and "integrity tests". The author journeys back and forth between the justice system and the everyday life of the postmodern to illustrate how the lines between these two spheres of social life are increasingly blurred by the use of new surveillance technologies. Taken together, these surveillance rituals constitute the building blocks of a rapidly emerging society of discipline, one increasingly stripped of personal privacy, individual trust, and a viable public life that supports and maintains democratic values and practices.

Surveillance Book Description - This training manual covers all aspects of carrying out a physical covert surveillance in order to gather intelligence and evidence.

Product Description - The first DVD on the art, technique, and equipment of professional surveillance!  Are you in law enforcement, private investigation, the military, or looking for a career in any of these fields? If so, this interactive informational DVD is just for you. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just getting started, ULTIMATE SURVEILLANCE will teach you all the tips, tricks, and techniques necessary to perfect your skills in the art of surveillance. A comprehensive section details the latest equipment and tools of the trade. All instruction is given in an easy to understand conversational manner. Informational slides and real-life examples are provided. Packed with nearly two-hours of priceless information, ULTIMATE SURVEILLANCE is a great reference tool and a must-have for any library requiring the latest techniques in surveillance.

-COMPREHENSIVE EQUIPMENT OVERVIEW
-FIELD TECHNIQUES
-TIPS AND TRICKS
-CHAPTER BREAKS (For Quick Reference)
-LIVE ACTION FOOTAGE

-PACKED WITH TWO HOURS OF INFORMATION!

Amazon.com - George Orwell envisioned Big Brother as an outgrowth of a looming totalitarian state, but in this timely survey Robert O'Harrow Jr. portrays a surveillance society that's less centralized and more a joint public/private venture. Indeed, the most frightening aspect of the Washington Post reporter's thoroughly researched and naggingly disquieting chronicle lies in the matter-of-fact nature of information hunters and gatherers and the insatiable systems they've concocted. Here is a world where data is gathered by relatively unheralded organizations that smooth the way for commercial entities to find the good customers and avoid dicey ones. Government of course too has an interest in the data that's been mined. Information is power, especially when trying to find the bad guys. The mutually compatible skills and needs shared by private and public snoopers were fusing prior to the attacks of 9/11, but the process has since gone into hyperdrive. O'Harrow weaves together vignettes to record the development of the "security-industrial complex," taking pains to personalize his chronicle of a movement that's remained (perhaps purposefully) faceless. Recognizing the appeal of state-of-the-art systems that can track down a murderer/rapist with heretofore unimaginable speed, the author recognizes, too, that the same devices can mistakenly destroy reputations and cast a pall over a free society. In a post-9/11 world where homeland security often trumps personal liberty, this work is an eye-opener for those who take their privacy for granted. --Steven Stolder