Active Surveillance 1.0 – Concept for future surveillance

Developments in the world as well as within the nation have contributed to an increased and diversified threat picture, which means that there is a need to develop the surveillance capability. Effective surveillance requires being able to detect threats early and having the ability to ward them off. In order to obtain a proactive surveillance capability, new technical solutions are required and to succeed in integrating these with work methods and organization as well as new ways of thinking about surveillance as more proactive. The objective of this study is a concept that can contribute to the development of surveillance and surveillance systems. The design of the concept was carried out in an iterative process. The concept of active surveillance is described in the form of a basic idea, a system outline, eleven principles and nine capabilities. The basic idea is a to analyze conditions and phenomena related to the protected object in order to proactively identify indications that something negative regarding the protected object being surveillance is about to occur. In order to actively control negative events and break the negative course of events, there are a number of possible measures. The concept constitutes a description of a vision of future surveillance, around which stakeholders can gather and discuss. Thus, the vision is not too rigid, but can change as new knowledge is obtained.