COURSE DESCRIPTION*   COURSE LENGTH: 24 hours July 7-9, 2025

Day 1, 8am - 4pm

Day 2, 8am - 4pm

Day 3, 1pm - 9pm

Noble’s Surveillance Training for Law Enforcement is an intensive three-day program designed to equip officers with advanced surveillance techniques for urban and rural environments. This course combines classroom instruction with hands-on field exercises, the course focuses on vehicle and foot surveillance, technology integration, and counter-surveillance tactics.

This course emphasizes vehicle surveillance fundamentals and rural tactics, incorporating tools like drones and GPS trackers for monitoring in challenging terrains while building on these skills with urban foot surveillance.

Students will be versed on legal considerations, situational awareness, and evidence documentation.

The training culminates with a full-scale operational exercise simulating real-worlds scenarios, blending urban and rural surveillance challenges.

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*Students are required to bring a department vehicle, binoculars, notepad and pen.  

Students will learn firsthand from those who have investigated and managed high risk and high value investigations at the state and federal levels. These surveillance techniques has resulting in hundreds of arrests ranging from murder to complex burglary cases .

The instructors presenting this course have received the highest law enforcement awards for their investigative work, including The U.S. Attorney General Award, the DEA Administrator Award. In addition, they have authored affidavits leading to the seizure of more than 300 million dollars in cash and assets and the arrests and convictions of hundreds of suspects.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

SURVEILLANCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Vehicle Surveillance Fundamentals: Convoy positioning, rural route planning, and maintaining visual contact on highways.

• Technology Integration: Use of drones, GPS trackers, and long-range cameras for remote monitoring. 

• Rural Challenges: Limited cover, long distance observation, and terrain navigation. 

• Urban Vehicle Exercises: • Multi-car team coordination in downtown traffic. • Highway tracking with lane-changing and speed-matching drills.

• Rural Scenarios: • Drone-assisted surveillance of remote locations. 

• Covert vehicle concealment in open terrain using natural cover. 

• Principles of Surveillance: Objectives, legal considerations (Fourth Amendment, evidence collection), and ethical guidelines. 

• Types of Surveillance: Fixed (static) vs. mobile, solo vs. team operations, and overt vs. covert tactics. 

• Urban Challenges: Crowd blending, counter-surveillance detection, and situational awareness in high-traffic areas (e.g., stores, restaurants). 

• Vehicle Surveillance: Convoy positioning, rural route planning, and maintaining visual contact on highways, Tracking subjects vehicle to a retail establishment 

• Discreet Observation: Tracking subjects through simulated retail environments while avoiding detection. 

• Transition Techniques: Shifting roles between team members to maintain continuity.

• Counter-Surveillance Identification: Spotting common tactics used by subjects to evade monitoring.

• Briefing: Teams receive a mock target (person/vehicle) with objectives tied to a simulated criminal investigation. 

• Strategy Development: Risk assessment, role assignments, and contingency planning for urban/rural transitions. • Hybrid Exercise: 

• Urban Segment: Monitoring a subject through a busy commercial district, including indoor (store/restaurant) and outdoor tracking. 

• Rural Segment: Pursuing a vehicle to a remote location using backroads and technology-assisted methods. • Unexpected Challenges: Sudden counter-surveillance maneuvers or route deviations. 

• Evidence Review: Analysis of photos, videos, and logs from the exercise.