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PLE Security & Investigations offers one- and two-week courses covering the basic techniques and methods used for gathering audio and video evidence through electronic surveillance equipment. The entire staff of PLE Security & Investigations is collectively committed to providing the most comprehensive and useful surveillance training available.

Our goal is to provide students with the proficiency and confidence to use their departments' assets as "force multipliers." Upon completion of courses, students will possess the knowledge for using their current electronic systems to those systems' fullest operational capabilities, and for providing sound products with evidentiary value, to administrators and prosecutors. Courses include such elements as:

  • Formal classroom instruction in -
    • Electronic Theory
    • Radio Frequencies
    • Antennas
    • Acoustics
    • Cameras, VCRs, and Transmitters
    • Infrared Illumination and Lens Selection
    • Troubleshooting
    • Equipment Specifications
    • Systems Fabrication
    • Electronic Craftsmanship
    • Equipment Purchasing
  • Extensive practical exercises to reinforce classroom instruction, including -
    • Mobile Audio/Video Intercepts
    • Fixed Audio/Video Intercepts
    • Long Range Lens Evaluation
    • RF Range Tests
    • Concealment Techniques
    • Pinhole Lens Installation Techniques
    • Hardwire and Wireless Transmission Techniques
  • Construction of  -
    • Electronic Circuit Board Devices
    • Microphone Concealment Device
    • Microphone Power Supply
    • Microphone Pre-amplifier
    • Infrared Illuminator

Throughout these courses, PLE Security & Investigations provides instruction to ensure that students have a sound grasp of fundamentals. Our instructors teach difficult subjects in a practical, usable, and easy to understand manner, by frequently employing such evaluation techniques as graded practical exercises and written tests.

Graduation and Certificate Requirements

PLE Security & Investigations requires that students graduate with a grade of at least 80% to receive a PLE Audio/Video Surveillance Operations diploma. Any students obtaining a grade of less than 80% will receive a certificate of attendance for the course.