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Midwest Counterdrug Training Center
This course focuses on physical surveillance skills, equipment, and adaptability necessary to become proficient at conducting surveillance on drug traffickers through a variety of terrain. Circumventing counter-surveillance will be instructed as well as developing tactical operation plans, surveillance reports, deconfliction procedures, suspect apprehensions and takedown techniques, and surviving confrontation situations. This course is designed for officers/agents with minimal or no experience up to experienced level and for officers from extremely small agencies with little or no resources to large agencies with extensive resources. Student officers will learn to operate in task force situations through multiple jurisdictions.
Students will be immersed in actual surveillance operations in which he/she will be conducting surveillance solo and in team scenarios. Surveillance methodologies practiced will stress and test safety, efficiency, and adaptability through various settings. One day of classroom instruction will be followed by four days of immersion into real surveillance operations.
If possible students should bring vehicles to be utilized in the practical portions of the class. Each vehicle must be properly registered and insured. Each department-authorized vehicle to be used must have a letter of permission from the department. Students without access to a vehicle will be paired with other students.