Surveillance Academy Assessment

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Question 1

Your subject has arrived at an upscale, private country club that is not open to the public (unless you are a guest of a current member). The subject has entered the club and you must verify what activities they engage in, even if you are unable to obtain video footage. You change into a polo shirt and slacks from your surveillance bag and enter the club. Once inside, a concierge immediately asks: “Can I help you?”

What would you do?

a. Reply: “No, I’m okay. Thanks.” and calmly depart the area to avoid suspicion

b. Reply: “Yes please! My fiancé and I are getting married next June and I’m looking for wedding venues. Could I take a short tour?”

c. Reply: “I’d like to speak with you privately.” Proceed to identify yourself as a private investigator and tell them you would like to establish a surveillance position.

d. Attempt to bribe the concierge with 20 dollars for access all day.

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Question 2

You follow a subject into a restaurant. Upon entering the restaurant to continue surveillance, the hostess immediately greets you and begins showing you to a table that does not give you a view of your subject.

What is your response?

a. Tell the hostess that you are meeting a friend, and request to check the restaurant tables to see if they’ve arrived yet.

b. Let the hostess escort you to the table and wait for the subject to come into view.

c. Locate an open table with a line of sight towards the subject and ask to be seated there.

d. Ask to be seated at a table directly adjacent to the subject’s table.

e. A. & B.

f. A. & C.

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Question 3

It is Thursday at 5:15 pm and you are following your subject on a busy freeway. There are two vehicles between you, and the subject is about to exit the freeway into a downtown area.

What is the best method of following at this point?

a. Close the gap between yourself and the subject and make sure there are no longer any vehicles blocking you.

b. Keep both vehicles between yourself and the subject.

c. Keep one vehicle between yourself and the subject.

d. Pull in front of the subject and observe their movements through your rearview mirror.

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Question 4

You are following a subject in a mountainous environment, along a rural one-lane highway. There are very few vehicles on the road besides you and your subject.

Which following method would you choose?

a. Close Follow: stay right behind the subject at all times.

b. Variable Follow: get close to the subject when cross-roads appear on your GPS, and then fall back when potential exits have been passed.

c. Loose Follow: follow distantly and ensure you are not seen.

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Question 5

You are following a subject into a rural area and suddenly you lose sight of their vehicle due to a traffic obstruction. Before you lost visual contact, you saw that the subject turned onto a main road that goes through a small town with various shops and restaurants. This road also passes out of the town and continues to a large city fifteen minutes away.

What is the best course of action to perform first?

a. Immediately search all of the shops and restaurants in the nearest small town.

b. Drive slowly down the road the subject took, then go back to the residence to wait for the subject’s return.

c. Consult a GPS to determine the most likely places the subject would visit in the large city, then proceed to check those places.

d. Drive quickly down the road the subject took until you are sure you would have caught up to them, then double back and check the small town’s shops and restaurants.

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Question 6

You follow your subject to an intersection near a large retail plaza. Your vehicle gets stuck at the traffic light, but you can observe as the subject enters the parking lot of the plaza. You follow and can locate the subject’s vehicle parked in between three possible retail stores.

What will be your strategy to locate the subject?

a. Quickly search each store while keeping eye on the store exits. Check on the subject vehicle every 2-3 minutes.

b. Quickly search the most popular store while keeping eye on the store exits. Check on the subject vehicle every 10 minutes

c. Do not go in, stay set up on the subject vehicle.

d. Notify your supervisor before searching and wait for their instructions.

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Question 7

Your subject lives with an identical twin and you do not know what your subject looks like. While you are set up at the residence, both twins exit but you are not sure who the subject is.

How could you confirm the identity of your subject?

a. Call the subject’s phone number using *67

b. If a possible subject enters a vehicle, send the license plate to your supervisor to check the registration.

c. Eavesdrop on their conversation to hear the possible subject’s name.

d. All of the above.

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Question 8

Your subject is a 20-year-old woman who was involved in a major car accident.

What information could you uncover about her using only publicly available sources and social media?

a. The name and location of her employer

b. The address she currently resides at

c. The vehicle she drives

d. Her date of birth

e. All of the above

f. A. and C.

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Question 9

You arrive at the address marked below at 6:30 am (see photo.) There is ample parking on their street, and you note that a main road leading to the freeway is to the south of the residence.

Where would be an optimal setup location?

a. Splitting property lines on the east side of the street, one block from the subject’s residence, facing north

b. Directly in front of a neighbor’s house, half a block away, facing south

c. Directly across from the subject’s residence, in order to obtain a quality ID shot

d. Splitting property lines on the west side of the street, four houses away, facing south

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Question 10

You arrive at the address below at 5:00 am in January (see photo). The client suspects that the subject is working under the table for a friend’s construction company. We worked the subject prior and the last investigator lost the subject as he drove in a pickup truck at 6:00 am.

Which of the following setup locations is optimal for both an expected early morning (dark hours) pick-up and our client’s immediate surveillance goal?

a. Across the street. Due to the lack of light so early on a winter morning, you need to be extremely close in order to obtain a good visual ID

b. Along the subject’s exit route. Since you know the subject’s vehicle, you should concentrate on establishing a position enabling the optimal “pick-up” and follow

c. Outside the subdivision. You carefully study the satellite view of the subject’s neighborhood and pick the most likely exit point and setup on that street

d. None of the above

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