ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF PROBABLE CAUSE Flashcards
An operator must know and understand
the goals of the LEA and the Specific Information Requirements (SIR) tasked to GRD to provide the best possible support to a LEA drug trafficking investigation.
EEPC are the most useful items of a detailed description of persons, vehicles, objects, and activities that will allow
a law enforcement person to stop and search, detain and question, or arrest a person for criminal acts.
Drug interdiction operations involve
operators providing LEA with timely and accurate information about suspected drug trafficking activity.
Intelligence Gathering
operation s involve operators observing an area suspected by LEA of being used for drug trafficking activities. LEAs have little or no information about the suspects and the activity.
Priority of information for reporting EEPC
The priority of information for reporting EEPC is based on what a law enforcement person will see when he is looking for the subjects involved in suspected activity that an operator has reported.
Distance, the route, and the time a suspect vehicle must travel
before a LEA mobile surveillance or interdiction vehicle can intercept it.
Description on vehicle
Vehicle Designation: The vehicle has been given a designation by the LEA of his or her importance to the case
- State the state in which the license plate was issued
- License Plate the LP number (DO NOT GIVE OUT WRONG LP, GIVE WHAT YOU SEE)
- Color As accurately as possible, if unknown, then use light, dark etc.
- Style 2 door sedan, 5 door sedan, type (SUV), etc.
- Year estimated age of the vehicle and report
- Make name of the manufacturer
- Model ram, challenger, malibu etc.
- Miscellaneous Information
Noisy, stickers, unusual equipment, company names on vehicles, etc.
- Route and direction of travel
- Number of occupants
- Description of occupants
a. Driver
b. Primary Suspect
c. Other occupants of vehicle
Description on subject
G-Gender M or F
R-Race white, black, Hispanic etc.
A-Age 5yr increments 20-25
B-Build heavy, medium, thin, height (5”0-5”6)
C- Clothing Top->Bottom
Hat, hair, facial hair, shirt, pants, shoes
Include: Direction and route of travel, Possible drugs on subject’s body
GRD often supports
multi-agency operations.
Immediate information
is more important than anything on the air that is not covered by the above precedence’s. This could include tactical information that would alert the LEA that a potential interdiction or compromise situation is developing.
Priority information
is more important that anything on the air that is not covered by the above precedence. Could include information about resupply that is time sensitive.
ROUTINE
Lowest priority message traffic
