REGIONAL COUNTERDRUG TRAINING ACADEMY

Covert Vehicles Installations

Length: 5 days

Designed for: This course is designed for those officers or investigators, who need to install covert audio, RF and/or video surveillance equipment in any type of undercover, marked or unmarked police vehicle, including trucks. Students are encouraged to bring a vehicle for covert installations.

Prerequisites : None

Certification: This course is POST certified in the states of Mississippi and Georgia and accepted for certification in other states.

Description: This one week course will teach:

•  The officer how to remove and replace interior and exterior automotive components and accessories

•  The principles of 12 VDC automotive electronics and how to avoid damaging automotive computers and like equipment

•  How to “run” and conceal DC power, audio, RF and video cables

•  Identifying the best places in a vehicle to install and conceal investigative microphones, audio amplifiers, switchers, cameras and IR illuminators

•  How to fabricate special concealment devices for “stand-alone” surveillance systems which can be moved quickly from one vehicle into another

•  How to build his or her own audio amplifier and junction box

•  How to minimize or avoid RFI and EMI by installing special filters and chassis grounds

•  How to design and fabricate special disguised RF antennas for use in vehicles

•  How to install surveillance equipment that can be covertly used to record activities and conversations that occur either inside, or outside the vehicle, or both

•  Each student will receive and keep a special-purpose 15 piece vehicle install tool kit which will be used throughout the course.