Surveillance Secrets - Season 1 (2019)

The team go on location to test various pieces of surveillance equipment, the toys. Vehicle trackers are deployed and tested in an operational capacity demonstrating how operatives use equipment in the theatre of operations in exactly the same way espionage agents deploy the equipment in the field.

Control (Fabian Lord) and the team show what it takes to conduct both foot and mobile surveillance. A case study takes the team into a commercial theatre of operations where they first conduct a thorough reconnaissance, followed by a period of covert surveillance on a target.

Having mastered observation and surveillance skills, Control requires the team to set up a stakeout in a fixed observation post. The surveillance operatives progress through the 5 stages of the Surveillance Cycle whilst monitoring a target between their residence and their place of work. What could possibly go wrong?

The team receive a call from an upset housewife who is concerned about her partner's erratic behaviour and regular disappearances. Control undertakes a briefing and conducts an initial reconnaissance of the new theatre of operations. The team are then deployed to the operational area and eventually establish the cause of the partner's peculiar behaviour.

The operatives take ordinary members of the public through fast-track training in the classroom, teaching them the skills and techniques used by some of the world's elite espionage agencies, covering spycraft, surveillance methods, legal issues and putting them through a series of simulated high-pressure problem-solving exercises.

As the new team members complete their Spy School training, they're taking out into the field to conduct a live surveillance exercise where they will hone their skills at 'going grey' and not standing out whilst conducting both foot and mobile surveillance on a real target. They must complete their mission objectives without being detected by their target.