CROPS School of Surveillance has released a new booklet detailing their rural and urban surveillance course offerings. The courses last anywhere from 2 days to 10 days based on the content and level of training requested. CROPS prides itself on delivering enhanced and comprehensive training courses which hold nationally accredited qualifications. They welcome all training inquiries, whether they be in the United Kingdom or overseas.
If you have any questions regarding training, you can contact info@crops.uk.com.
This is also a good time to bring up ‘Covert Rural Surveillance’. As a reminder, it is a tradecraft manual on offer by CROPS dedicated to modern military techniques and covert tactics for rural surveillance operations.
With over 560 pages, in excess of 1500 color images and diagrams, ‘Covert Rural Surveillance’ offers unrivaled insight and quality to this unique subject. This manual has been designed, to enable the reader to carry it under the ‘top flap’ of their CROPS Bergen or other pack for immediate reference should it be required. It also contains a number of blank documents such as: Surveillance Logs / Reconnaissance Report Template / Replenishment Cards / Sketch Sheets and File Notes used on operations that can all be photocopied and used during your surveillance.
The rural environment is by far the most challenging, requiring the utmost of personal discipline and the aim of this manual, is to make your operations successful every time. The content of this manual has been taken directly from the author’s Covert Rural Surveillance Course syllabus.
Subjects covered:
• Introduction to surveillance
• Planning & Preparation
• Clothing & Equipment
• Rural communications
• Navigation
• Field Craft
• Patrol Skills
• Rural hide construction
• Logging & Reporting
• Triggers (static follow)
• Sketch Maps
• Panoramic Sketching
• Observation Skills & search
• Close Target Reconnaissance
• Methods of Resupply
• Digital Still & Video Imagery
• Deployment of Covert Camera Systems
• Eavesdropping
• Operating from Buildings
• Winter Operations
• Law & Legal Issues
Covert Rural Surveillance is a highly recommended tradecraft manual, which is currently been used by a number of overseas specialist units as the comprehensive training guild for this subject available anywhere.