Mobile Surveillance: Dealing with Suspicious Subjects

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Frank Torres and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. This segment is about dealing with suspicious subjects while you're performing mobile surveillance. People have a sixth sense about knowing when they're watched. They just seem to know when a suspicious vehicle is tailing them in traffic or when one's been parked out in front of their house for a long period of time. If your subject gets suspicious and starts checking you out, do anything except show interest in them. If you have to, pull out your phone, start texting, pretend you're talking, sing along with the radio, read a book, do anything to throw the subject off your tail. If you get caught shooting video, tell them you were shooting video of something else around them. Tell them you were shooting video of real-estate to show to somebody who was interested in the property. Tell them you were shooting somebody else in the area or just getting nature shots for a class. So, anything but do not admit you're a private investigator. After your subject gets suspicious, follow back on your observation point for a while. Set up a little bit farther back and don't necessarily set up on the subjects, near the subject?s property. But maybe at the front of the subdivision so that you can catch up with them later when their suspicion's gone down a little bit. Follow all these tips and you'll be fine when you're dealing with a suspicious subject."