Covert Rural Surveillance & Farm Monitoring for Catching Equipment Thieves

The Covert Rural Surveillance book stemmed from the need to know and align this activity with modern surveillance standards worldwide. The methods used differ from state to state, from countries where the detective profession is regulated to countries where it is not.

This has meant that the lack of information in this field has led to the application of methods that are not related to surveillance but to military research and reconnaissance, practiced in the sciences of warfare and adapted to the requirements and objectives of surveillance work.

While everyone carries out the activity as they wish, I will remind you surveillance is an intelligence activity and not reconnaissance, and camouflage, military devices and covering the face with mud are not features thereof.As I have said, surveillance is an intelligence activity that involves the use of covert methods over a period of time, with a specific dynamic, and is usually conducted in rural areas where concealment is difficult to achieve.

Camouflage entails carrying out the action in the wild, staying in the wild and not leaving the observation points, whereas surveillance implies alternating activities, not spending all the time outdoors and employing intelligence techniques that make days-long camouflage obsolete.

Surveillance activities have a particular specificity; they are dynamic, and with every change of environment, the methods used to monitor the target-whether a person, building, or area-are adapted without repeating the previously applied techniques.

Surveillance is an intelligence gathering activity. Investigators aren't allowed to catch thieves, to performe flagrante delicto.Last but not least, this book is awaited with great interest by countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and others that are facing big problems with the theft of farming machinery and other assets. In this context, the applied camouflage-based methods are worthless.

This book is about conducting foot and card surveillance both during the action in the countryside and when we leave the countryside.

The book will cover all the existing methods that are the basis of the car surveillance carried out in different environments, different types of streets, what we have to do not to stand out, which cars to use.Car drivers often say that they carry the brunt of the action. This is true but their skill is cumulated with the investigators who act on foot. These two activities are at the forefront in the fight against evil but also to meet the requirements of private beneficiaries.

Moreover, covert rural surveillance conducted by a team of multiple investigators acting together will be scrutinized, and where mistakes arise, we will analyse what went wrong and why, how to do it correctly and provide remedial consequences.This is why I want all professionals, regardless of the course taken, to know clearly what the mistakes of this profession are to avoid many conceptual and operational differences that give rise to discussions in this field and hinder the operation.Through this specialized book in the field of covert surveillance and counter-surveillance, I wish to present at a higher level to people who want to improve their skills and abilities the concrete way in which the human factor acts in this type of operations as well as the erroneous actions that it can undertake without realizing it, sometimes due to inexperience and the assimilation of wrong courses that he/she has taken part in, courses delivered by non-professionals.