[dba-Tech] How To Search

No idea.  But you get the prize for the most unusual post to the tech list.
I will forward to a friend of mine on the SDPD - works vice.  See if he
knows anything.

Best,

Rocky


Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
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Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] How To Search


> I'm working on a screenplay, and it involves the police searching
> various residences, warehouses, etc.
>
> It strikes me that there is probably a course on how to search a
> building (house, apartment, warehouse, etc.) that police officers take.
> I've tried various combinations in google and come up dry.
>
> One thing that I remember from working on a previous screenplay, a tip
> submitted by a "consultant" on the script, is this: when you do a B&E
> (break and enter), locate the sock drawer first, because almost everyone
> stashes valuables in their socks.
>
> That's the kind of material I need to make this script work. Does anyone
> know if the police are taught such a course, "Search Techniques 101",
> etc. ?
>
> Without wanting to spill too many beans in public, I once knew a person
> who had an aquarium in his living room, equipped with a collapsible
> shelf. Should any unwanted intruders (i.e. police) arrive, he could push
> a button and said shelf would collapse, unleashing various chemistry
> into the aquarium and thereby destroying the contents. Fish included,
> but they weren't his priority.
>
> It strikes me, as an ignorant person on this subject, that there are a
> few basic ways to stash something (be it guns, coke, kiddie-porn,
> whatever) -- it's under something; it's over something; it's inside
> something; and it's outside something (i.e. the house).
>
> Does anyone know of a police-type course taught by search experts where
> optimized techniques are taught? I suspect this is a convergence of
> psychology and "geography", for want of a more narrow word. I really
> have no idea how the professionals might go about this. But consider
> some affluent alleged perp with say a 5-bedroom house, a triple-car
> garage and an acre around it -- and you have to search it... For guns,
> for coke, for Ecstasy, for kiddie-porn, for whatever.... How do you
> optimize this search?
>
> A) Brute force -- overturn everything systematically, and maybe take a
> year.
> B) Rule-based -- on advice from seasoned cops, it's likely to be in a
> heating register or above a ceiling tile, or in the sock drawer.
> C) Informant-based -- you don't go in until you know where to look.
>
> Any ideas, anyone? Are there such cop-courses as "Search Techniques
> 101"? Can anyone supply leads to sites that provide such info?
>
> Many TIAs,
> Arthur
>
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