Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations: Tradecraft Methods, Practices, Tactics, and Techniques / Edition 1

by Robert J. Girod

Overview

Whether using high-tech equipment or agents-provocateur (undercover agents), intelligence involves the use of processed data. This text is a collection of essential information based upon the author’s training and experience over more than three decades as a law enforcement investigator and military officer. The result is an organized text of special skills and reference material essential to the professional investigator and intelligence operative. Supplemented with more than 140 illustrations and photos, the book provides an insider perspective on sensitive covert and overt operations and sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482230727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/26/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	564
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Robert Girod, Sr. is the president and CEO of Robert J. Girod Consulting, LLC, attorneys-at-law and consulting detectives/private investigators, which provides general law practice and investigative services, litigation support, and management services nationwide, including forensic accounting, computer forensics, accident reconstruction, and linguistic interviewing, translation, and interpretation. He is the author of Profiling the Criminal Mind: Behavioral Science and Criminal Investigative Analysis, Infamous Murders and Mysteries: Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its, and Police Liability and Risk Management: Torts, Civil Rights and Employment Law. He has also authored numerous articles for various professional periodicals, such as FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Security Management, The Police Marksman, and Musubi.

Table of Contents

Black Bag Operational Planning. Human Intelligence. HUMINT Surveillance and Undercover Operations. Defenses against Methods of Entry. Forced Entry into Buildings. Safes, Combinations, and Automobile Locks. Psychological Operations and Social Networks. Electronic Intelligence and Signals Intelligence: Bugs and Taps. Emanations Intelligence. Imagery Intelligence. Internet and Database Open Sources. Intelligence Files and Analytical Investigative Methods. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Misappropriation Law. Computer Forensics: Searches, Evidence, and Notice. Computer Forensics: Discovery and Spoliation. Appendix A: Electronic Surveillance. Appendix B: Computer Privacy and Crime. Appendix C: Government Data Privacy. Appendix D: Consumer and Credit Data Privacy. Appendix E: List of Most Common Languages. References. Index.