Basic surveillance / awareness course
COURSE TRAINING STATEMENT:“To give individuals and organisations an insight to surveillance and how it is used”
COURSE DESCRIPTION:“THIS BASIC SURVEILLANCE/ AWARENESS COURSE INTRODUCES THE STUDENT TO THE ELEMENTS INCLUDED IN SURVEILLANCE TRAINING. MAIN SURVEILLANCE SKILLS IN CONJUNCTION WITH LEARNING THE ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES & TACTICAL DEPLOYMENT OF SURVEILLANCE.
COURSE TITLE: BASIC SURVEILLANCE AWARENESS COURSE
QUALIFICATION: AWARENESS
COURSE DURATION: 3 x DAYS
TEACHING PERIODS PER DAY: 8
LENGTH OF TEACHING PERIOD: 40 MINUTES
BLOCK SYLLABUS
- INTRODUCTION TO SURVEILLANCE
- THE DEFINITION OF SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS
- THE ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SURVEILLANCE OPERATOR
- THE SURVEILLANCE OPERATOR EQUIPMENT
- BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO FOOT SURVEILLANCE
- TYPES OF SURVEILLANCE
- INTRODUCTION TO ANTI SURVEILLANCE
- INTRODUCTION TO COUNTER SURVEILLANCE
Block syllabus:
- Sniper surveillance ops and its effect joint integral effects operations & istar
- Introduction to patrolling
- Ops rural environment
- Ops urban environment
- Ops – disrupted environment
- Sniper hides
- Obstacle crossing
- Tactical pauses
- The rv system csars and dars
- Sniper surveillance patrol orders
- Patrol report writing
- Revision logging and reporting
- Fortified ops
- Hard routine
- Agent contact
- Ctr of an op position
- Contact drills
- Tactical pauses and short halts
- Harbours and troop link-up drills
- Lups
- Close target recce
- Practical patrolling
- Practical op construction
- Practical contact drills
- Practical construction fortified ops
- The mission planning room and battle procedure
- Cacheing
- Cacheing practical
- Sniper fire plans & live fire from sniper hides
- The co-ordinated sniper volley
- The sniper surveillance matrix
- Sniper surveillance patrol estimate
- Sponsoring beach-head landing points/dops/lups
- Tactical helicopter landing sites (hls)
- Application of the rv system
- Finding and fixing target locations
- Ctr op position
- Routine in the op
- Logging and reporting, panoramic sketching, target indexing, detailed sniper range cards
- Recovery of cache
- Ctr hls
- Ctr target
- Night stalk & night standing ops (nsops)
- Post task procedure & immediate tactical back-briefs
- Sniper surveillance patrol orders
- Delivery of sniper orders
- Sniper surveillance patrol estimate construction
- Routine in the op
- Logging and reporting, panoramic sketching, target indexing, detailed sniper range cards
- Weapon hides
- Tactical exercise – rural