Tools and Techniques for detecting deception by Undercover Officers
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Tools and Techniques for detecting deception by Undercover Officers
To be undercover is to avoid detection by a personality that one is observing, and particularly to assume an identity with an objective of gaining trust from an organization or a specific person. Undercover officers are tasked with obtaining or confirming confidential information and also to win the trust of targeted personalities with an aim of gathering evidence or information (Berenskoetter, 2012). The technique is mostly practiced by law enforcement agencies and private investigators. This report involves the three most effective tools and techniques namely, Surveillance, Interception of Communication and Covert Investigations that can be used in the training of undercover officers to be both good deceivers and good detectors of deception.
Historically, the first informal but organized undercover program was first introduced in France in the early 19th century by Eugene Francois Vidocq (Bressan, 2012). England established the first modern police force in 1829 and this was done by Sir Robert Peel. At the beginning, undercover detectives with plainclothes were deployed occasionally but the public…show more content… According to the court, data obtained by the use of electronic communications are generally important hence it can be considered as a valuable tool that can be used to prevent offences and in particular, to fight organized crime (United Nations, 2009). Nonetheless, the judges’ conclusion was that the use of electronic communications especially on surveillance was a violation of the basic rights in the order of the European Union (EU). The rationale concerning the use of surveillance in training of officers and in investigations has always been considered necessary and one that comes with an
