Surveillance

To document activities.

Conducting digital pre-surveillance to map out the area and understand the layout; conducting physical pre-surveillance on foot or in a vehicle to verify what is at the location, determine how to remain undetected, and identify obstacles and how to overcome them; conducting stakeouts outside a person's residence or other locations they visit to understand their schedule and observe arrivals, departures, visitors, and vehicles; secretly following them from location to location on foot or in a vehicle to see where they go, who they meet, and what they do; photographs, video, and authorized audio recordings of relevant activities.

If the subject is too far away, or there are no nearby positions to get a good picture, we’ll use high-zoom cameras to take photos. If photos need to be taken at night, we’ll use a night vision camera to get clear pictures. If the only way to take a photo is to be extremely close, we’ll use different camouflage methods depending on the environment to blend in with the surroundings and reduce the chance of being noticed.

We may conduct background checks on people or vehicles we identify during surveillance if we believe the information would be relevant to the task.

Our undercover operations use disguises, fake identities, and believable cover stories so we can get close enough to obtain the evidence you need. Surveillance uses undercover private investigators to secretly follow criminals until they commit a crime, or wait for them at locations where they’re likely to commit a crime. Then, once they're in the process of committing a crime, we record them committing the crime and, if necessary, disrupt it. We detain a person for law enforcement when there is a legal basis to do so. We limit force and detention to what is reasonably necessary.

For hidden cameras and/or drones set up to operate autonomously, we design, build, disguise, set up, maintain, and remove the equipment, and review the recordings to identify evidence, analyze the daily patterns of everyone who comes to that location, and plan a good day and time for physical surveillance based on those patterns.

Deployment periods and unused prepaid days follow Deployment.

Service labor, disguise materials, and ordinary deployment expenses are included in the daily price. Preparation, travel, and report time are charged separately as described in Support Services. Travel includes three round trips: pre-surveillance, installation, and removal.