TRUSTED
TRAINING
PROVIDERS
SURVEILLANCE & INTELLIGENCE
DESIGNED BY OPERATORS FOR OPERATORS
COUNTER NARCOTICS
Federal, state, and local drug and vice units trust the Surveillance Ops team to equip their agents with the skills they need to excel in mission-critical counter-narcotics surveillance operations. Our training programs are designed by seasoned professionals with extensive real-world experience, ensuring agents receive practical, hands-on instruction in advanced surveillance methodologies and intelligence collection techniques. With a proven track record of success, the Surveillance Ops team is the trusted training partner for agencies dedicated to making a difference in their communities.
ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME
Surveillance Ops specializes in establishing and advancing the capabilities of Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Units through proven surveillance and intelligence training. For over a decade, major retailers have trusted our team to deliver relevant instruction tailored to the unique challenges of retail investigations. By integrating counterintelligence surveillance methodologies with practical retail crime investigative strategies, our training elevates ORC Units to the next level of operational excellence. We train to effectively identify, disrupt, and dismantle prolific boosters and large-scale fencing operations.
ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Even one matters because when we can rescue one, they will lead us to others. Surveillance Ops team members take pride in providing surveillance and intelligence collection training tailored to anti-human trafficking teams, including multi-jurisdictional task forces and private coalitions. Our instructors and partners bring first-hand experience from successfully investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases at federal, state, and local levels. This real-world expertise ensures that our training equips teams with the practical skills and strategies needed to effectively combat human trafficking and dismantle criminal networks.
WHO WE HAVE TRAINED
Our team believes in building lasting relationships with our clients.
They are the Heroes fighting the good fight for all Americans.
We've proudly trained over 4,000 students from a variety of organizations to include but not limited to:
FBI • NCIS • ATF • ICE • DOD • DEA
National Guard Bureau • HIDTA
CBP • Air Force • US Postal • Army
CA CDTF • GA CDTF • SD CDTF
VA CDTF • AR CDTF • FL CDTF
GBI • FDLE • GA DOC • Atlanta PD • GA Revenue
Savannah PD • Metro Narcotics • Orlando PD Broward S.O. • Lakeland PD • Polk Co S.O. Gwinnett PD • Gainesville PD • Cobb Co PD Roswell PD • Phenix City PD • Jacksonville PD
Conway PD • Little Rock PD • Charlotte PD
Marietta PD • Cherokee Co S.O. • Canton PD
Albany PD • Fulton Co S.O. • St John's Co S.O.
Miami PD • Orange Co S.O. • Oakwood PD
Columbus PD • GA State Patrol • Roswell PD
AR State Patrol • Fulton PD • Dekalb PD
Publix • H-E-B • Walmart • Macy's
Home Depot • 7-11 • Lowe's • Meijer • Belk
RBM • Food Lion • Toys R Us
WHO WE ARE
Surveillance Ops is led by it’s founder, Ricky Ansbro. A seasoned professional with extensive experience in the field of counterintelligence surveillance operations.
Ricky served with the FBI as part of the elite Special Surveillance Group based out of Washington, D.C., where his team conducted daily Foreign Counterintelligence and Counter Terrorism surveillance operations. Success in their mission depended entirely on the effectiveness of their surveillance team, giving Ricky a deep understanding of the critical role a well-trained surveillance team plays in achieving operational objectives.
After his time with the FBI, Ricky was recruited by a major defense contracting agency and contributed to the development and implementation of Surveillance Operations Courses for other federal agencies and counterintelligence units.
When founding Surveillance Ops, Ricky assembled a cadre of highly experienced instructors, exercise controllers, and role players, each bringing diverse operational backgrounds to the table. The team comprises professionals with experience in agencies such as the
FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Department of Defense (DOD), and Law Enforcement units specializing in drug enforcement, vice operations, and retail crime investigations.
Why Choose Surveillance Ops?
Surveillance Ops instructors and exercise controllers remain active in their respective fields of expertise. Many are recognized as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), ensuring they bring the latest techniques, trends, and real-world insights to the training programs.
This commitment to operational relevance guarantees the students receive the most up-to-date and practical training available. By combining unmatched experience with current best practices, Surveillance Ops delivers a surveillance training program that stands out as the gold standard in the industry.
COURSES
SURVEILLANCE
We have developed a unique “hybrid” counterintelligence surveillance program for:
Criminal Investigators • Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Investigators • Intelligence Professionals
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.
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
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 100 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 two 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.
Surveillance Detection doesn't just relate to those working in various intelligence communities or criminal investigations. It also applies to anyone in every day life who actually care about situational awareness.
Many CEOs, high level corporate officers, celebrities and other high profile individuals have taken Surveillance Detection courses to help elevate their personal awareness.
COUNTER SURVEILLANCE
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.