Week 5: More Surveillance

3 March, 2008 9:00-5:00 This week: 8 hrs. Total: 40.0 hrs.

This week, after doing some background checks in the morning, I went out in the field with Mike to do surveillance on a paint store, where a worker was supposedly having an affair. We were hired by the guy's wife to see if he was cheating on her with a woman working at a nearby bank. After we arrived, I staked out the front entrance to the store, while Mike covered the back door. After several hours of waiting patiently for something to happen and listening to Dr. Laura on the radio, Mike calls me and tells me our guy is on the move. I pull out of my position, and Mike and I follow the guy clear across the city. Once the subject got to his destination, a market, he turned around and drove back to the paint store. That seems to be how surveillance is; a whole lot of boring waiting for something to happen, then sudden excitement at something finally going down, then back to waiting again.

I have been fleshing out my idea for a project over the past weeks, and I think I am going to have to somewhat change my original plan. After revisiting my original idea of consolidating different client forms with my mentor, we decided that it might be difficult for me to effectively analyze and consolidate the forms, being that I only work eight hours a week, and therefore don't get very 'intimate' with their usage. So I suggested to Sandy that I put together a portfolio of all the things I have done for Ginter Investigations, including a marketing campaign, subrosa reports, and the reworking of the Investigator Profile sheet. She agreed, and I have begun compiling those items into a presentation.