REGIONAL COUNTERDRUG TRAINING ACADEMY
Basic Technical Services/Video Surveillance Operations
Length: 10 days
Designed For: This course is designed for the officer, investigator, or supervisor who uses, or supervises those who use audio, RF and video surveillance equipment in support of undercover drug investigations
Prerequisites: None
Certification : This course is POST certified in the states of Mississippi and Georgia and accepted for certification in other states.
Description: This is an intense two-week, entry level, (or refresher) course that teaches the following:
How to use, or supervise covert surveillance equipment systems
- Provide specific technical knowledge and hands-on-the-equipment operator skills
- Provide the skills to consistently produce “real-world” evidence quality recordings of actual drug transaction crimes in-progress
- Program will focus on audio, RF and video surveillance equipment and techniques
- Each student is strongly encouraged to bring existing department-owned surveillance equipment/systems
- Each student will also receive a specifically designed 33-piece technical surveillance tool kit which will be used throughout the course and be kept by the officer to use upon return to his or her agency.