We are the leading
SURVEILLANCE
& INTELLIGENCE
training providers
Anti Human Trafficking
Counter
Narcotics
Organized
Retail Crime
EXPERIENCED & PROVEN
method of instruction that is easy to learn and apply
Who We
TRAIN
Surveillance Ops instructors have trained 3500+ students from various organizations to include (but not limited too) the agencies listed below:
FBI • NCIS • ATF • ICE • DOD
National Guard Bureau • DEA
HIDTA • Air Force • US Postal
GBI • Atlanta PD • Albany PD FDLE • Savannah PD • MANS
Orlando PD • Broward S.O.
Lakeland PD • Polk Co S.O.
Gwinnett PD • Gainesville PD
Cobb Co PD • Phenix City PD
Jacksonville PD • Conway PD
Little Rock PD • Charlotte PD
Publix • Home Depot • Macy's
Walmart • Meijer • Food Lion
7-11 • Belk • Toys R Us • RBM
Private, Corporate & Faith Based, Human Trafficking Task Forces-Partnerships
NARCOTICS & VICE UNITS
Federal, State, and Local, Drug and Vice Units trust the Surveillance Ops team to train their Agents.
ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING
TASKFORCES
We have a special "civilian grade" training program developed to help Churches and Private Coalitions combat Human Trafficking.
ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME
Our proven method of instruction will bring any ORC Unit to the next level of surveillance. Law Enforcement and Major Retailers have trusted the team at Surveillance Ops for over a decade.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCECOUNTER-TERRORISM
SPECIALIZED UNITS
Our Surveillance, Counter Surveillance and Surveillance Detection Courses are custom designed to benefit any CI/CT program. Available to credentialed Government employees only.
Surveillance Operations are successful when everyone on the team speaks the same language and follows the same methodologies. There must be a standard operating procedure. That’s where we come in.
Ricky Ansbro
CEO - Surveillance Ops LLC
WHO WE ARE
Surveillance Ops CEO, Ricky Ansbro, worked for the FBI and was assigned to the Special Surveillance Group in Washington DC. His team followed Foreign Spies and Terrorist on a daily basis. They were only successful if the surveillance was successful, so he knows the importance of having a properly trained surveillance team. Ricky later went on to assist with the development and deployment of Surveillance Operations Courses for other Federal Agencies and Counterintelligence Units.
During the formation of Surveillance Ops LLC, he recruited a Cadre of experienced instructors, exercise controllers and role players. All have diverse backgrounds and operational experience in their specific fields. They bring experience from various intelligence and investigative agencies. They have backgrounds with the FBI, HSI, DOD, Drug and Vice Units and Retail Crime Investigations.
All of the instructors and exercise controllers are still active in their respective fields of expertise and most are recognized as Subject Matter Experts (SME). Because they are all still operational, they bring current trends and techniques to the training program, which gives Surveillance Ops the advantage over other surveillance training programs. This guarantees the most up-to-date, relevant training for the student.
The Training We Provide
Surveillance
We have developed a unique “hybrid” counterintelligence surveillance program for:
Criminal Investigators • Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Investigators • Intelligence Professionals
All of our surveillance training courses are available as "Civilian Grade" to Private and Faith-Based Anti-Human Trafficking Coalitions and Task Forces. Our experienced instructors can teach the complete A to Z investigation cycle or just the surveillance and surveillance detection portions.
We offer the highest level of relevant surveillance training available. Over years of critiques, consultations and implementation, we have successfully integrated counterintelligence methodologies and criminal investigations into a training curriculum that is easy to understand and highly effective.
We use a Crawl, Walk, Run cycle of training. Instruction starts in the classroom and quickly progresses to hands-on instructor-led practical drills. Most training ends with a final exercise that utilizes role players who are unknown to the students. The use of unknown role players, not instructors, is unique to our training program and offers students the best reality-based training available in the industry.
All courses start in the classroom. Surveillance methodologies are presented in an easy to absorb manner. The instruction progresses to the street, where students immediately have the opportunity to apply what they learned through a series of practical drills. These drills are designed to expose students to surveillance detection tradecraft or measures that might be used by their Target of Investigation.
The practical drills and exercises are purposefully designed to prepare the students for various surveillance situations they might encounter during the course of their investigations. During the drills, instructors interject valuable teaching points about that particular module of instruction. This gives the students an opportunity to ask questions and get answers while the subject is still hot. All aspects of the progressive drills are presented again to the students during the final exercise, allowing the students to properly apply what they were taught
Surveillance Detection
DEFINED: A spectrum of specific, well-rehearsed actions and techniques that a properly trained person can perform to determine if they are under surveillance.
If you were being followed, would you know it? Could you determine if you were under surveillance, without looking obvious? Why does it matter?
Here’s the deal, major drug cartels are bringing in millions of dollars a month and the Organized Retail Crime (ORC) industry is estimated to be a 30 billion dollar a year enterprise. Human Trafficking organizations are making billions every year!
When a criminal organization is making heavy profits off their illegal activity, they will do anything to protect their operation, to include, training their own people in surveillance.
Surveillance Detection is complex. Anyone can make aggressive u-turns and cut through parking lots to make a determination whether or not someone is following them. The key is to do it discreetly so you don’t alert the surveillance team. This is important because if a surveillance team knows you are trying to lose them or identify them, they are going to change their tactics.
Physical surveillance of a person can occur no matter how they choose to travel, so they must be able to perform surveillance detection while walking, driving and on all forms of transportation. You can benefit from the Surveillance Detection Training Course in 2 ways:
1) You will have a better understanding of how surveillance detection techniques are used to exploit and manipulate a surveillance team.
2) You can personally utilize these tactics on and off duty. With proper training, you can always determine your surveillance status.
Counter Surveillance
DEFINED: The act of detecting then countering, or preventing any surveillance from continuing.
A rising trend for criminal organizations is to collect intelligence on those who seek to dismantle their operations. Whether it’s a drug cartel or a retail boosting outfit, many criminal organizations are employing professionally trained surveillance teams to collect Intel.
All persons involved in criminal investigations, intelligence operations or national security should be properly trained in counter surveillance and surveillance detection. Understanding how a counter surveillance team operates will increase the surveillance operator’s ability to operate effectively and undetected.
Surveillance Ops offers counter surveillance training with the law enforcement and retail investigator in mind. We have developed an easy to learn course of instruction. As with all our courses, we start in the classroom and quickly progress to the street for realistic practical exercises.
Topics we cover in our curriculum:
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Surveillance terminology
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Surveillance Detection and Awareness methodology
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Surveillance Detection Routes (SDR) and design
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In Pattern and Out Pattern Routes – What’s the difference and what do they mean?
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Operating in the Red Zone. Where is the Red Zone?
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Applying Surveillance Detection and Awareness to everyday life
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Map reconnaissance and route planning
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Setting up Surveillance Detection Points (SDP’s)
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Counter Surveillance considerations
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Setting up Counter Surveillance positions
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Progressive Surveillance Detection Drills
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Red Teaming – adversarial view of surveillance
Anti-Human Trafficking Training
THE HIDDEN CRIME - HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human Trafficking all too often goes undetected. It is disguised in many ways to look like normal day-to-day life. Some of the most common forms of trafficking are:
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FORCED LABOR is also known as involuntary servitude
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SEX TRAFFICKING
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CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING or Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Most Human Trafficking operations continue to "hide in plain sight". The traffickers are always evolving and diversifying. This makes it very hard for law enforcement to detect and dismantle Human Trafficking organizations. This is why it is important for community groups (private, corporate and faith-based) to get involved. In the world of Human Trafficking - Even One Matters!
Even One Matters because when we can rescue one, they will lead us to others.
Law Enforcement cannot fight the Human Trafficking battle alone. Realistically, they don't have enough resources. They simply do not have the funding or manpower.
Successful victim rescues and prosecutions of offenders can be fostered with Law Enforcement through corporate partnerships and faith-based, Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces.
Surveillance Ops instructors and partners have first-hand experience investigating and successfully prosecuting, various Human Trafficking cases on Federal, State and Local levels. While developing the Anti-Human Trafficking training curriculum, our team utilized their real-world Law Enforcement experiences in the following areas:
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Identifying
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The type of Trafficking crime
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Potential victims
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Places/people of interest
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Investigating
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Conducting surveillance
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Collecting intelligence
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Interviewing witnesses
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Developing patterns of life on suspects
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Disrupting
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Developing informants
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Deploying informants
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Undercover operations
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Dismantling
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Rescue operations
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Seizing property, assets, and bank accounts
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Conducting search warrants
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Serving arrest warrants
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Successfully prosecuting offenders
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Surveillance Ops offers various levels of training to Private, Corporate and Faith-Based Anti-Trafficking Coalitions/Task Forces. Every Task Force should understand how a Human Trafficking case typically works. It will make them more effective.
Churches & Civilian Coalitions
DID YOU KNOW...
Private, Corporate and Faith-Based Anti-Trafficking Coalitions/Task Forces can help "connect the dots" for Law Enforcement by Identifying and Investigating suspected Human Trafficking Organizations and locations. The Coalitions/Task Forces can also help rescue victims who are "willingly ready" to leave their situations.
Not all victims are ready to leave their situations. Some feel like they can't leave because there is nowhere to go or no way to safely get out. Some do not trust Law Enforcement. Some, simply do not have the means to leave but they might be willing to if someone was there to help them.
Surveillance Training
Surveillance Ops instructors can help train your Team members on how to be an effective force against Human Trafficking. We can teach your Team how to properly develop Patterns, Habits and Behaviors on suspected Human Trafficking locations and suspects.
Once trained, your Team will have the confidence to conduct surveillance operations. YES, civilians can conduct surveillance! They should be properly trained though.
Our instructors will start in the classroom with your Team, to layout a solid foundation of surveillance principles and methodologies. Then, they will move the class outside to the streets, where they will conduct practical surveillance drills. Your Team will learn how to conduct Stationary surveillance and Moving surveillance.
The course is FUN and EXCITING. We teach ordinary people how to do extraordinary things. They will leave our course with a whole new level of confidence and a set of particular skills to help fight the Hidden Crime of Human Trafficking. The evidence and intelligence they collect can be "Gift Wrapped" and turned over to Law Enforcement for prosecution.
Advanced Operations
So let's say your Team makes contact with a young prostitute who is addicted to drugs and forced to pay her drug debts by selling her body for sex to multiple strangers a night. She feels trapped because her pimp is always watching over her. She can't go to law enforcement because she is scared. YOUR TEAM CAN HELP!
Once you make contact and communicate with her (however that may be), you can begin to plan her Exfiltration from that situation. Our instructors at Surveillance Ops can train your Team on how to effectively and safely, plan and execute an Exfiltration Operation to save the young lady.
Did you ever think your Church Team could establish clandestine communications with trapped sex workers and help them escape by using proven Counterintelligence methodologies like:
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Surveillance
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Counter Surveillance
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Designing Surveillance Detection Routes
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Arranging Pick Up Locations
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Planning Exchange Locations
Well, you can! Churches and Civilian Coalitions are conducting these operations safely and effectively across the U.S.
Just imagine, your Team can have the skills necessary to locate a victim of Human Trafficking, make contact, and safely help remove them from that situation, without being detected. Now you can get that victim the help, rehab, and/or relocation they need.
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770-356-5802
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