400-12 Surveillance Equipment

Question 1

What shall any employee or division do before using or acquiring any surveillance equipment?

Answer 1

Be properly trained in its operations and legal restrictions

Question 2

What shall unauthorized divisions do to utilize surveillance equipment?

Answer 2

use services of Technical Surveillance Detail or CID

Question 3

Who must approve an employee’s use of any audio or visual equipment surveillance?

Answer 3

Immediate supervisor

Question 4

What specific type of surveillance equipment does 400-12 address?

Answer 4

Covert

Question 5

What divisions are authorized to use covert surveillance normally?

Answer 5

Air and Marine, Auto Theft, CID, Gang, IAD, Major Offenders, Narcotics, Tac, Vice

Question 6

Once an unauthorized division or personnel is granted use of covert surveillance equipment who shall they contact to receive it?

Answer 6

AC of Special Investigation Command and CID’s Technical Surveillance Unit (TSD)

Question 7

Who is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for surveillance equipment?

Answer 7

CID TSD (Criminal Intelligence Division - Technical Surveillance Unit

Question 8

What are the responsibilities of CID TSD as the Subject Matter Expert of surveillance equipment?

Answer 8

Keep informed of emerging tech, dept has enough equipment, maintain master database of equip EXCEPT IAD, monitor and control equipment by unauthorized divisions

Question 9

What shall a division do when acquiring a surveillance equipment piece

Answer 9

notify TSD, maintain inventory, forward inventory to TSD every year, use NOCC

Question 10

When must a division forward an inventory of their surveillance equipment to TSD?

Answer 10

by January 15th every year

Question 11

Normally who is only allowed to authorize covert audio recording on a civilian?

Answer 11

AC of Special Investigation Command, in absence Commander of CID may

Question 12

Who does IAD investigators have to seek approval from to use covert audio surveillance?

Answer 12

IAD Commander

Question 13

Who is the only unit/entity allowed to use covert audio countermeasure?

Answer 13

CID TSD

Question 14

Where are the only places that covert audio countermeasures allowed to be used?

Answer 14

dept and local govt personnel and facilities, and COP direction

Question 15

Who may request audio surveillance countermeasures of department operation?

Answer 15

Commander and above and approved by commander of CID

Question 16

Who may request audio surveillance countermeasures of local govt facilities or personnel?

Answer 16

Any officer in COC from CID Commander to COP

Question 17

Who may request audio surveillance countermeasures of not authorize provisioned or planned for?

Answer 17

COP

Question 18

Who shall be responsible for maintaining surveillance evidence?

Answer 18

The individual unit that created it including retaining it themselves or tagging etc it

Question 19

Who is allowed to maintain permanent microwave site receivers for surveillance purposes?

Answer 19

CID, Air Support, IAD, Narcotics and SO

Question 20

What divisions are authorized to maintain vehicle tracking systems permanently?

Answer 20

Auto Theft, Gang, Major Offenders, Narcotics, Vice, CID and IAD