Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain mobile surveillance
- Confirm the identity of subject for surveillance
- Select and prepare officers for surveillance team and equipment for the environment in which surveillance will be undertaken
- Maintain continuous surveillance of subject according to operational requirements and relevant jurisdictional policies and procedures and legislation
- Monitor subject movements under all conditions through appropriate observation positioning, including covering exit and entry points to the area
- Use communication techniques and equipment according to operational requirements
- Complete running sheets in the prescribed format that include accurate descriptions of subjects, vehicles and location
- Keep equipment and evidence secure during the surveillance operation
- Maintain covert nature of surveillance operation
- Maintain the covert nature of the surveillance using techniques appropriate for foot and/or vehicle surveillance according to relevant jurisdictional policies and procedures and legislation
- Check surveillance positions are not compromised by movement of officers during period of observation
- Recover officers performing foot surveillance without compromise
- Conceal or disguise equipment and documentation during surveillance operation
- Respond to changes in surveillance operation
- Apply appropriate search techniques following loss of subject
- Recognise the need for counter-surveillance and/or anti-surveillance techniques, and select and apply appropriate actions according to relevant jurisdictional policies and procedures and legislation
- Manage timing and position of changeovers to control surveillance of subject and security of officers, and to ensure the covert nature of the operation
- Identify and request the need for alternative surveillance techniques
- Use appropriate static surveillance positions to support mobile surveillance operation as determined by the surveillance plan or in response to changing requirements of the current operation