Eddie Cruz's Blog

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I’m now going to direct some attention to my book and surveillance in the private sector. One thing that I did not go into great detail in the book was how I go about downsizing without compromising essential surveillance equipment. There is so much equipment involved in a surveillance that things can easily get lost or misplaced when you need them the most. One area where I’ve tried to create space and comfort has been with my personal belongings. These things have nothing to do with surveil...

       So far, my blogs have been about my days as an undercover. The reason for that is that I have many examples from those days of the mind games necessary to succeed in covert activity. Many of these games are played on the fly because like the private sector your subjects are not following a script. As a surveillance operative I have to stay a step ahead of my subjects if I want to achieve my goal, and mind games, in the form of a diversions, help me to do just that. Below is a story of...

In a book that I just published, “Surveillance: A Concept of the Art”, I talk about how the street provides many opportunities for a surveillance operator to blend in without looking suspicious. The only limitation would be the operators own imagination and the environment he or she is operating in. An ideal setting would be a foot surveillance that is conducted in the city or an urban area. Suburbs and strict residential neighborhoods however, make this strategy very difficult to pull off.

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I never wanted to be a uniformed police officer, but it was the only path to take if I wanted to become a detective or an undercover. And so, four and a half years after I joined the police force I entered the Narcotics Division as an undercover and quickly learned that I was made for this work. I loved everything about it end enjoyed going to work every day. People have occasionally asked me about the dangers of this job and what was my scariest moment? The memory that immediately comes to m...