Police departments are proportionately equipped with personnel, equipment and intangible resources to properly suit its local vicinity of coverage.
Operatives can work with (employ) or manipulate (exploit) various elements of the police to the operative’s advantage as per operational need:
– Defensive / Security Support
– Tactical / Combat Support
– Legality Immunity
– Opposition Interference
– Creating Diversions
– Access to Databases / Records
– Flushing Out an Area
– Surveillance
– Navigation Route Clearing
– Target Tracking
– Transportation Escorting
– Protection Detail
– Communications Network
As well as physical resources; firearms, vehicles, body armor, comms, uniforms, tools and other equipment.
Utilization of the police can be done as an official representative of a governing / collaborative agency, running an asset from within the police force or by manipulating the system from the outside.
[PHOTO :Urban Survival in Berlin, Germany]