Surveillance or follow-up, both terms are often used reversibly in everyday life. It is a commonly found word around us as most of the shops, workplaces, roads, malls, even houses have CCTV cameras installed for security purposes and they have a notice displayed saying “you are under CCTV surveillance.” All these places have this notice as it is basically illegal to record any person digitally without letting them know.
Even though this being illegal, it is often considered as a sure short procedure to know any concerned individual in the best way. Everyone follows a routine on a daily basis which usually has a pattern. That pattern, directly or indirectly, reflects an individual’s character. While conducting surveillance, a team of few people is with appropriate skill and the most important thing to be taken care of is disguise. The teams need to work together to avoid being caught. Every individual in the team requires a high skill in hiding themselves as well as slightly changing their appearance to avoid getting in the sight, more than once, of the subject.
How Is Surveillance Conducted?
The team is given a reporting time which is usually an hour before their daily routine starts to get as many details as they can. Once the subject leaves the house, he/she is followed to wherever he goes and records who so ever he meets or talks to, along with the proper time and duration. While keeping an eye on someone, we can know his habits like if he smokes or chews tobacco or if he has an affair outside the house. We can also know the character of the person. For instance, while conducting surveillance of a man, we find him eve-teasing a woman on his way to the office, we can easily determine that he has a bad character. Everything, from his food habits to his friends to his co-worker’s behaviors to his time spent in the office or on-call, can be achieved only by following a person for a week. It is said for the duration to be a week as any person, mostly, takes a break from that particular routine for weekends which will also tell us about his habits apart from his workdays. All his whereabouts can be gathered just by the surveillance.
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