Would you recognise a terrorist walking down the streets of Pretoria or at O.R.Tambo International Airport? Most people would not. Terrorists have learned how to blend into the crowd. Did you know that they usually come from good caring families, they are not psychopaths and they often have loving spouses and young children? They are usually driven by ideology, they believe they are saving the world and they don’t announce all of that on their T-shirts. The Institute of Security Studies has identified South Africa as a target for drug trafficking and as a terrorism training ground. The cash based society has also encouraged terrorist money laundering through micro businesses.
Then there is the question of lying at customs. How do you know if someone is lying? That too is a surveillance art and a science. The rules are simple but they must be learned and it may not be instinctive as is commonly thought. A trained eye backed by research will see this and more.
The Pan African Council of Surveillance Professionals and Technologists has already Chaired and made significant contributions at international conventions on Peace Keeping, Law Enforcement, Counter Terrorism and Terrorist Anti-Money-Laundering initiatives. It has played a strategic component in bolstering SondoloIT high risk projects.
The PACST implant at Bosasa will be contributing to up to date surveillance research much needed by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations. PACST leadership will be doing the commentary on the famous Dewani case. Is he lying in his defence or not? Watch this space as the new research team gears up for this initiative and leads the field. DBJ
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