Observation & Hostile Reconnaissance

Course 12 — Foundation Level

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Establish a behavioural baseline and identify when that baseline is broken
• Recognise the four key indicators of suspicious deviation: movement, timing, attention and clothing
• Explain where reconnaissance sits in the pre-attack cycle and why it is detectable
• Apply the HOT protocol to assess a suspicious person and the ACT framework to respond
• Follow the Observe, Record, Report SOP without confrontation or bias