NATO manual, dated 2011

This book is "BIG" size, the size of a regular size piece of paper.  It is exactly the "mini" size on this website, except bigger.  The "mini" size is less expensive.

All in Color.

This manual, a complement to Tracking: A blueprint for learning
how by Jack Kearney (US Border Patrol), is intended to provide law
enforcement officers and national park rangers with an additional
tool in learning how to track poachers, criminals, or lost subjects;
to gather intelligence on criminal activity; and to improve crime
scene management. It is further intended to provide them with a
tool set necessary for securing evidence for prosecution

This manual is intended to provide law enforcement officers special forces operators, search and rescue teams, and national park rangers with an additional tool in learning how to track poachers, criminals and lost subjects and to gather intelligence on criminal activity. It is also intended to teach law enforcement offi and rangers the importance and existence of evidence related to both tracks and sign on and in surrounding crime scenes, especially related to anti-poaching operations. Furthermore, it is designed not only to enable them to follow, locate and apprehend suspects, but also to a secure required evidence for prosecution and especially avoiding destroying or contaminating evidence in the process.

The photo guide is a complement to Jack Kearney’s book Tracking: A blueprint for learning how, taking tracking onto a wider range of users and with additional experiences from various terrain and climates included and should be used in conjunction with courses. A professional tracking instructor is extremely important for faster and more accurate training. It takes time to learn how to see sign.

Tracking is no mystery, but plain practical skills that can be acquired through training like anything else. We hope that this manual helps bring some basic knowledge out to a broader audience to once again create awareness on one of the oldest and advanced skills and its application in law enforcement, investigation, search and rescue (SAR) and reconnaissance. A team of trained tactical trackers is among the most reli able and efficient resources a commander, officer or manager can apply in a search, including in advising and directing the search. Their specialty is to locate and fi a subject, and they will.

We have also at the end added some information about natural navigation, survival and patrolling effi y, including ways to optimize the use of active track traps through raking of roads, patrolling on foot in rugged terrain and minimizing weight and volume of patrols to increase speed and distances covered. Unfortunately, most people now associate modern, well-trained patrols with heavily (over-) equipped patrols with all kinds of advanced technology. This is not the solution in bush environments. We believe that this information can be useful to the park manager with limited resources available and faced with militias, guerillas or armed professional poachers moving fast and light.

This manual is intended to help improve the tactical skills of rangers and improve the ethics and enforcement skills. The poacher is the lowest part of the chain and often easily replaced. Killing of a poacher will reveal no valuable information, but merely escalate a confl The primary goal is to apprehend the poacher alive or follow him to his doorstep and through other means unravel the organized network. The probability of getting caught and sentenced is crucial in preventing crime, and tracking is crucial in this context in bush environments.

The binding uses a coil, allowing for easy page flipping with no jamming.

The covers are laminated for weather protection with color printing and pictures.