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Expozure Investigations provides professional investigative services to our clients throughout Australia. We also provide training to both working and novice investigators to an exceptionally high level. The news section contains examples of some of the work we are currently undertaking and general news from around the nation in regards to the investigations industry.
Shortage of Security Officers - Commonwealth Games
We hear that there is a major shortage of competent security officers in Melbourne for the Commonwealth games. A few companies caught with their pants down we think. It wouldn't take Einstein to work out that maybe the abysmal rates being paid at the moment had something to do with it. We would appreciate an email advising us of the true situation.
Major Theft - Sydney Airport
Expozure Investigations has spent the past month investigating the theft of a valuable cargo belonging to a major overseas company which went missing en route from Sydney Airport to its final destination in Sydney. After another excellent and professional investigation led by JC (Yes sometimes I think he is) we managed to identify the offenders involved and recovered almost half the product (which hadnt yet been sold). A full brief of evidence was handed to the Police as always and two arrests were made this week with over 12 charges being laid.
Protective Surveillance in High Risk Theatres
9 October, 2005
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, security has been the number one burning issue for the US and Iraqi administrations. The key to getting the country on any semblance of reconstruction lies in the inherent need for the projects to be secure and void of disruption through insurgent attacks directly on the project itself or indirectly through intimidation of local workers and resources.
In order for these projects to run smoothly as possible a huge demand for security has bought numerous international security companies to the forefront of security provision in Iraq.
With the need for security comes the need for professional operators to fill the ranks of the companies who obtain the provision of contractual security arrangements with their clients. These range from the US government to international corporations to single businessmen.
Iraq in itself poses a very difficult scenario for protection teams looking after their clients. Iraq has a flow to daily life that in any other country would look suspicious or out of place. The diverse nature of the people and culture such as how they drive, dress, behave and react to things places a great challenge on professional security operators and how they conduct their protective surveillance operations.
My background from the military and Police assisted me greatly in being situational aware to what was going on around me. However with the busy daily activity of Baghdad, there is too much to observe and analyse, let alone decide if it is a potential threat or not.
It takes time in the country and on the ground of this great sprawling Middle Eastern city to come to terms with what is a threat and what is not. Sometimes the common joke is that everything here is a threat, and in some respects that is not too far from the truth in this insurgency.
I attended the ASSI covert surveillance course in the course of my profession and to give me more awareness.
I must admit some reservations after registering for the training course in whether this would help me in the Middle East. It didn’t take more than the first day to know I would learn a great deal from Adrian in such a short time. Although this course is aimed more at the professional fraud / insurance investigator and surveillance operative, the principles are applicable anywhere.
The basis for any protective surveillance is the need for the operative to become very familiar very quickly with the routes and areas that he uses on his tasking. Whilst everyone in a protection team has their individual responsibilities, everyone has the task of providing protective surveillance.
Operatives must be aware of their environment to detect and observe changes whether dramatic or subtle. It may be that some small incident for example a vehicle spotted following the protection team on a parallel road and suddenly turns off or does something out of the ordinary. Something that is not with the flow of the surroundings, these small incidents in themselves do not point out to anything threatening or warn of a potential attack. What is important is the collation of these small incidents over a period of time, the analysis of the incidents and whether there are intelligence pointers to something more sinister waiting to happen the following day.
Everyday in Iraq there and numerous incidents happening to every protection team all over the country. Happenings that are noticed but for lack of training or awareness these are not reported or just simply dismissed as of being of no importance, can lead to serious attacks on protection teams.
There have been many serious and fatal ambushes and attacks on convoys all over the country that could have simply been assessed as potentially going to happen, or avoided all together by the use of protective surveillance.
Unfortunately I know of several instances where people, including protection team members, have lost there lives by not following the simple principles of observing their surroundings and environment and noticing things that would have or could have saved their lives.
Protective surveillance is an essential part of work whether for a close protection team escorting clients around Baghdad or putting protective surveillance in on a valuable assignment of personal property being moved across Sydney. The principles are the same and will keep people alive and assets secure.
Editors Note:
Thanks to Darryl for the comments and if our training helps to save even one life then everything we have done has been worth while. Stay safe.
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