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agency or private security corporation. For motorcades, it could be bene-
cial to select detection points (which will be discussed later in this chap-
ter) that can occur via a mobile platform.
Mobile surveillance detection requires two things: time and distance.
This means the more often a person and/or vehicle is seen over an extended
period of time and distance, the more likely they are under surveillance.
Given the general lack of numbers of personnel available to a criminal
and/or terrorist organization, the more likely they will have to perform
the surveillance using between only one to a few surveillants. Anyone
who has spent any time conducting surveillance knows doing it alone is
exceedingly difcult. I ...