[dba-Tech] How To Search

ROTFL This post is so far OT it's off the radar. Love it, and will follow
with fascination, but can't help. Unless..... friend of a friend. Will try
that avenue. Meanwhile will go empty sock drawer, build collapsible shelf in
toilet cistern and mourn your mate's dead fish.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
> Sent: 16 July 2004 05:34
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [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'" 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> 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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