What do you do if you get found out and you're not a public place?
Before we go into any of these meetings, for example, meeting in a basement, if I knew that this was a pretty secluded place and I was possibly running the risk of being caught out, or I'd been called to this place, which was unusual to how the undercover sting was going and I walked in. I would generally have my backup team with me on this so there would be a prearranged signal or time, that if I wasn't out in a certain time that they would then come in and get me out. But we'd always build into the undercover story part of it that we're never taken into secluded areas unless we've got backup with us. But if it did happen when I was in a basement, for example, once again I would openly deny that I was involved in an undercover operation. And as I walk into this basement, I would obviously be looking around for any ways I can get out of here if it did go wrong. I think normally, the best thing to do is completely deny it and then you backtrack. For instance, if the door that you've just come through is suddenly locked, then I think you've got two choices: you can either come clean and explain that you're working for either a newspaper or media organization or whatever and that if anything happens to you the guys outside know that you're in here, so it depends really. Nine times out of ten, if people caught you with recording equipment, they would take it off you and let you go.
