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Private Investigator & Surveillance Training Information

Titan Training Academy Training Course Locations are easily accessible by road, rail and air; making Titan a superb choice of training provider within the East Midlands and the United Kingdom.

Titan’s new Surveillance Training Facility is located at our Pride Park head office in Derby. The training facility is easy reach of the M1 & A38 roadways, the nearest main train station is located in Derby City Centre where students can travel 90 minutes direct from Central London – and within a 30-minute drive of East Midlands Airport.

Location Information

Chosen for their metropolitan ambience and varied infrastructure, Titan’s surveillance foot training is predominantly based in Nottingham & Derby City Centres. Each location boasts a full quota of public services and transportation making it the ideal location in which to learn/ practice foot surveillance.

Private Investigator Derby Training Centre Environment | Titamn Investigations

Training Environment

Private Investigator Derby Training City Centre Environment | Titamn Investigations

Course Instructors

Simon Henson – Senior Instructor

Simon brings a wealth of operational and training experience to Titan’s surveillance courses. He began his 17 years Police service in 1997 where he quickly diversified into the covert world, operating as a surveillance operative/investigator.

As a Detective Sergeant, he managed surveillance operations Nationally combatting Serious Organised Crime (SOC) before moving into Counter-Terrorism. Simon spent many years engaged in combatting terrorist attack planning both in the UK and abroad working in the following roles;

Having overseen the development and training of probationary CTIU Surveillance Operators, Simon is perfectly placed in being selected to co-author and deliver Titan’s Training Courses. Since leaving the Police, Simon has been working worldwide within the top tier of the commercial surveillance sector.

Brian has 30 years’ experience in Law Enforcement as a Detective Sergeant and Senior Manager. The majority of his service was focussed on investigating organised criminality. He specialised in investigations incorporating conventional, technical and rural surveillance working in Force Major Crime Units, Regional Crime Squad, National Crime Squad and a Government Agency. Since retiring in 2014, Brian established his own successful investigation business focussing on surveillance and workplace investigations. Brian is also the Deputy Principal at the Institute of Professional Investigators. Brian holds a training qualification and delivers training in a variety of covert investigative tactics, professional investigators course and Safeguarding.

Much of Guy’s thirty-year police career was dedicated to specialist and covert operations including surveillance and particularly human source management and control at local, regional, national and international levels in the national security and domestic extremism environment within Special Branch and the counter-terrorism intelligence network. On retirement from the police service, Guy retrained as an instructor and SIA Licenced Door Supervisor and Close Protection Operative and worked with UHNW clients in the Caribbean, Monaco, mainland Europe and the UK.
More recently Guy has worked freelance as a close protection operative, surveillance operative and investigator in the commercial sector and has built a client base for OSINT research and analysis and operational briefing for high profile events and UHNW clients.

A former Special Forces operator and surveillance instructor who served for 24 years and who has 8 years working within the top tier of the commercial surveillance industry both Nationally and Internationally.

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Training Facilty

Our courses are all held at our new surveillance training facility located in our head office in Derby. This new facility offers our students a modern and discreet learning environment in which to teach the range of diverse elements that make up surveillance tradecraft and theory.

Online Surveillance

Titan’s Online Surveillance Training Course is aimed at students endeavouring to enter into the private/commercial surveillance industry with little or no previous experience. This course when successfully completed can work towards IQ Level 4 in Covert Surveillance Operations qualification.

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