Surveillance training Courses: the background

Our unique style of surveillance saves our insurance clients huge sums by reducing or negating exaggerated or fraudulent claims while our work alongside police forces and local authorities has led to notable and high profile criminal convictions.

A key reason for our success in gaining effective footage is the training we give our staff and our careful management of their continuing professional development.

In 2007, we were awarded the right to create a Level 3 BTEC in Advanced Surveillance. As market leaders, we felt it was vital to set a nationally recognised educational standard for surveillance and offer existing and future staff an opportunity to gain a qualification in their specialist field.

Other companies providing various forms of surveillance training are invariably training organisations, which do not offer employment to the brightest candidates at the end of their courses, as we do. We have also found that such non-operational companies rely on the practical experience of their trainers, who tend to be drawn from one sector.

Our senior instructors not only represent a unique blend of special forces, police and commercial surveillance practice. They teach students to think outside the box and discard conventional surveillance methods.

Our training facility has a dedicated surveillance simulation centre, which teaches students to think beyond traditional methods and learn a whole new approach to surveillance. For example, students are taught how to create ghillie (camouflage) suits for standard rural surveillance, then to apply this knowledge to urban environments.

This approach is a key factor in our staff acquiring consistently excellent results. We also draw on retro-research data from our operations to enhance our training package and the continuing professional development of our staff.