Texas Drifter: Citizen Investigation Specialty Teams
Marshall’s Law Dateline - Continuing part of citizen investigation series. Why train citizen investigators for Nuremberg type American domestic war crimes trials? One answer, provide patriots alternative to justified or not hate motivated revenge; in return for punishment for guilty with due process justice for casualties of Obama’s and Obama’s Republicans’ unconstitutional seemingly fascist crimes.
Investigative specialty teams will increase in importance and influence during the future. Specialty teams are more productive and cost effective when using a cell system. The cell management system has been contributing to intelligence gathering for years.
Competing teams can be compared by: training, experience, resources, and motivation. Even best trained, best equipped, and most experienced military in the world is vulnerable if it has lost the will to fight. The same applies to citizen investigation managers and especially their specialty teams.
Specialty teams should generally not exceed eight members. Each member of the team will operate on a need to know basis only, so it is possible that some team members will not know who other team members are.
The participant management specialty team is not resource limited; it takes just as much time to manage individual team members with thousand dollar budgets as individual team members with million dollar budgets.
Since specialty team members may be volunteers dedicated to professional standards, they should not need pep talks. It may be necessary for these people to be reminded of mental discipline and have their skills sharpened during pre operation training.
Private sector specialty teams only have one objective: successfully complete their assignment.
Surveillance managers are solely responsible for avoiding or eliminating motivational distractions that negatively impact team unity, or team performance.
The most important element in managing specialty teams is to never forget that these people are dedicated loyal employees and not slaves. Surveillance managers should never under any circumstances neglect, abuse, misuse, or run these trusted team members into the ground.
Motivation is the tool used to instill their extreme duty attitude into specialty team members. Investigative operations are business assignments not sporting events.
One destroys morale by reducing or eliminating motivation. Creating motivational distractions helps contribute to the motivation reduction process.
This tactic is worthy of consideration when it reduces risks for agents and team members, and simplifies success.
When it comes to selecting team members, know that the smartest, most educated, best trained agents are worthless if they lack personal motives to do the best job they can.
Teams are more than the total number of members. A group of members who do not respect each other are not likely to produce team results. Team unity comes from two components: 1) mutual respect for other members’ ability, experience, and integrity, and 2) mutual admiration. It is easier for team members who genuinely like and respect each other to anticipate the other’s thoughts and actions.
Eight professionals of above average ability who respect and like each other, will consistently perform better than a team of super stars where everybody despises each other.
Professionals in charge need to know that his people are not doing whatever they want to do, but are only doing what their instructions require them to do.
Surveillance company managers are responsible for developing, setting up, using, and upgrading operation training programs. The goal is consistently maintain a calm alert perceptive effective attitude in all situations.
Training requires learning voluntary discipline and commitment. Be advised, education and training without a motivated work ethic are worthless. For example, taxpayers could spend a million dollars per student in the public education system; and get zero return on their investment when a dime’s worth of personal motivation is not provided to the students.
Operation training programs should include two areas: specific individual and specialty team. Basic individual training should include: body intake management; physical conditioning breathing management; mental conditioning breathing management; and special skills refinement.
Specialty team activities include: theory; goals; objectives; rehearsals (virtual reality and actual reality); practice analysis; continuous motivation reinforcement; and post assignment analysis.
Learn that teaching skills which should be instinctive or natural often require as much effort as other training procedures and exercises.
For example, surveillance is one of the first survival skills used by most animals; yet teaching a surveillance survival mentality is no easy task when working with volunteers for whom personal security is a novel concept.
Future studies should pursue the concept of body temperature meals. Drastic changes in food intake can disrupt body metabolism and put a team member out of service. Perhaps future studies will show that hot or cold meals also place unnecessary stress on healthy bodies.
Body temperature acclamation to assignment work site should also be of concern to citizen investigation managers managing surveillance team members. Simple example, it is not wise to take team members who sleep in moderate conditions at night, and stick them in hotels where room temperatures at night can be in the high fifty-degree ranges.
The best trained cannot perform their duties if they are suffering from digestive or respiratory problems.
What is good for team members is also good for participant managers. If team members are required to abide by certain company policies, then team leaders should also abide by the same policies. If team members are required to eat in cheap restaurants and stay in cheap hotels while on assignment; then their citizen investigation leaders should be right there with them.
The concept of royalty management can destroy motivation quicker than most other factors. Consider how much contempt working American citizens have for politicians who exempt themselves from laws they enact on private citizens. Best contemporary example includes private citizens being condemned to community level Obama Care health care services; compared to aristocrats’ health care for politicians and federal employees.
Surveillance team managers who do not wish to be associated with America’s “royalty’” politicians and arrogant, vain, undereducated, ignorant, over paid under worked selfish “royalty” public bureaucrats should manage team members; like the citizen investigation manager would like to be managed if he were a team member.
Another leader action that can destroy morale is not being loyal to team members who are loyal to him. Never change or transfer team members doing their job in the middle of an operation, just to see what happens.
Individual agent and/or team morale; motivation; and motivational distractions should be discussed in greater detail in related classes reviewing training and motivation.
Leaders must identify the point of no return often referred to as “PNR.” The PNR of an investigation, surveillance or undercover operation is a critical time. Once an operation has reached the PNR, there is no opportunity to start over if things go bad.
The citizen investigation surveillance manager as an individual may not enjoy the luxury of having backup. It is important for members of specialty teams to know;
their operation manager is always ready to intervene or serve as a decoy when needed to insure necessary security. This will provide a sense of confidence that helps team members achieve their job.
Another important element of security for specialty teams is the retreat plan. There are two times when you want to get out; once you complete the assignment or once the assignment self- destructs. So it is critical for the surveillance manager to have a backup retreat plan for his team members because they are depending on him to get them in and out safely.
Many citizen investigation management skills circle back around concept of loyalty. Loyalty is probably one of the most important requirements that any professional acting citizen investigator manager can display. Why, because it allows guaranteed discreet sources of communication, and insures integrity of the operation.
Trust in the private sector intelligence industry is generally delegated based on degrees of loyalty. Loyalty should include self, clients, staff, and professional contacts. It is extremely important to never betray the confidence of a source.
Surveillance personnel need to protect the source if the source wishes to be protected. Again, loyalty is one of those areas that many words could be written, but either you will comprehend the concept or you won’t. TRUE or FALSE
Bonus question - How many more clues, tips, leads, or evidence for American people could America benefit from “army” of patriot volunteer citizen investigators? ________
Clue - Reader might following review continuing citizen investigation series at All Right Magazine or Marshall’s Law Texas Drifter Library Entry #’s
648 Texas Drifter: Citizen Investigation Specialty Teams
647 Texas Drifter: Citizen Investigation Attitudes
646 Texas Drifter: Citizen Investigation Communications
645 Texas Drifter: Petition for Domestic War Crimes Trials
644 Texas Drifter: Putin's Long Term strategy
643 Texas Drifter: Citizen Investigation Ethics
599 Texas Drifter: Shadow Warriors Tie Breakers
