Subj : Why Stock Surveillance is Bad for Agencies
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Thu Sep 08 2022 20:38:21

A few years back I looked over several magazines of The Blue Line Magazine.  They showed off the latest gear available for law enforcement, and one of the items described was an audio surveillance device on a necklace.  The thing was easy to identify as the same one in the magazine.  So police and intelligence forces use stock kit to do their surveillance with, and for anyone who gets the chance to view the stuff advertised to them can be quite certain of the purpose of the device once having viewed the advertisements of the kit for surveillance purposes.  If there were more cooperation between intelligence services and police departments, there would not be this obvious use of items for clandestine service.  Basically this is how it is... you look in a magazine, see all the police's new kit, go around criminal circles, and find the very same kit being used by undercover officers.  Not too tech savvy, and a danger to the well-being of the officers.  It is my suggestion to only use state-of-the-art surveillance devices that are not available to just any police branch, but secret ones so the covers of agents isn't blown.  I mean really, advertising their secret sauce for anyone to read, not very bright.  Its not the undercover agent's fault, its the fault of surveillance logistics, being less than prudent in their acquirements.  Just my thoughts... 

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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