Customer Reviews

Advanced Surveillance

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I come from a Policing and surveillance background and bought this book because I am going into security training including for surveillance and close protection. I bought this book plus "Surveillance Counter-Measures - A serious guide to detecting, evading and eluding threats to personal privacy" and "Secrets of Surveillance - A Professionals guide to tailing subjects by vehicle, foot, airplane and public transport.

Advanced Surveillance, I found, was far superior to these other books. The other books has a lot of basic content in them, but very little in the form of pictures and illustrations and sub-headlines. There are just massive blocks of copy which are difficult to read and understand. The content was also slightly above basic.

Advanced Surveillance has a lot of diagrams and pictures. It is also laid out up in such a way that makes it easy to read and understand. There are also plenty of case studies from the author to give context to the concepts it teaches.

It would certainly be good for anyone working in surveillance. I have also used some of these principles in close protection to help identify any surveillance threats at the embus/debus locations to make sure no-one is following a principal upon departure from a venue.

My biggest criticism however is that Advanced Surveillance only has a basic table of contents, making it very difficult to navigate. An Index would also help.

It could also go into 'surveillance indicators' a bit more such as looking out for bananas (operatives catching up around a corner to chat), uniforms (such as team members carrying the same brand of mobile phone and/or bag, which happens more than we'd like to admit) and behaviours such as peeking and target fixation etc.

Other than that... excellent and definately recommended above those other books mentioned previously.

Whoever gave this book one star doesn't have any sense whatsoever! This is is very informative. It isn't vague and you don't need to purchase several other books to fill in any gaps. The title of this book is exactly what you get inside the book. I'm glad I bought it and it now has a permanent spot on my shelf. My review title reads "3 great books". I also want to mention to other books that do tie into this book if you want to take it to the next level as I did. NINJA SHADOWHAND: The art of Invisibility, AND KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS both by Dr. Haha Lung. I don't think I need to explain how these books tie in together. 3 great books and well worth every penny!!
Enjoy!

I bought this book thinking that it would list some of the more current surveillance technologies, but was sorely disappointed. I did'nt need to buy a book to teach me the history of the profession, nor simple minded countersurveillance and disguise "techniques". I was at the very least expecting to see pictures and explanations of the kinds of products that I can see at my friendly, local, neighborhood Spy Shop here in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Perhaps even some tips on debugging a room or vehicle. Well, if your looking for that kind of info just flush $50 down your toilet instead, then Mr. Jenkins can't use it to make another turd of a book like this one. Is he actually engaging in a campaign of disinformation?? Hmmm...