Tavcom launches advanced body language skills for CCTV course

Tavcom Training has launched a course equipping CCTV operators, crime investigators and intelligence specialists to better understand body language when viewing surveillance camera footage.

Advanced Body Language Skills for CCTV will teach learners about how to recognise and read incident risk behaviour, and about people profiling, situational awareness and recognising cultural differences.

The two-day course, which will take place at Tavcom’s training centre in Hampshire, will be highly interactive with extensive use of real-life incident video.

“Delegates will have the ability to read their environment more effectively and identify potential threats or risks even before they happen.” Course tutor Dr Craig Donald

Course tutor Dr Craig Donald is a respected industrial psychologist who specialises in human factors in technology integration and the security industry.

“Delegates will take away greater observation skills and a higher sensitivity to incident risk behaviour and situations,” said Dr Donald. “They will have the ability to read their environment more effectively and identify potential threats or risks even before they happen.”

Topics will include:

• How the dynamics of crime produce body language and incident behaviour
• Observation skills and implications for analysis of CCTV video
• Standout indicators for recognition of incident conditions
• Emotions and anxiety leakage as indicators of crime
• How behavioural patterns assist in analysis and detection
• Countermeasures by criminals – hiding body language and detection avoidance
• Crime types, syndicates and how to identify crime relationships
• The stages of crime and criminal behavioural strategies
• The implications for use of body components and characteristics for suspect identification
• The nature of situational awareness and its role in detection

The Advanced Body Language Skills for CCTV course costs £575+VAT per participant and a Tavcom certificate is provided on completion. The course will take place on these dates:

• 30–31 July 2018
• 16–17 October 2018
• 21–22 January 2019
• 13-14 March 2019

Part of the Linx International Group, Tavcom Training provides award-winning BTEC-certificated courses to installers, operators, managers and designers of CCTV, network IP, intruder alarm, access control, fire alarm and all other types of electronic security systems.

Tavcom is hosting the Future of Security Theatre, aimed principally at installers, at IFSEC International. Sponsored by Panasonic UK, the theatre will deliver a range of CPD-accredited presentations on cybersecurity, IT best practice, practical IP networking, integration and system design, among other essential areas for the modern installer.  

IFSEC International takes place at London ExCeL between 19-21 June 2018. Register now.

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