[dba-Tech] How To Search

Hi Arthur,

Google on "Warrant Execution training"

This one looks like the kind of thing you are looking for....
http://www.sttu.com/raids/default.html

or a book

http://www.all-surveillance.com/a-item_id-0939235048-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html

Also some other terms you could search on in combination with the Warrant 
Execution
secure the premisis
protective sweep

Good luck with it!

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues'"<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [dba-Tech] How To Search
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:13:28 -0400
>
>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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