We're going to be talking about handling your investigation.
The mental preparation behind it.
So as we're conducting searches for a variety of reasons and and targets and this could include but
not limited to things like missing persons, background checks, tracking down people that may have
done something illegal or possibly immoral and whatnot.
There are a number of things that we're likely to be found when we're doing an investigation that we
might not be expecting or that we may find disturbing.
So.
There is a range of emotions that you might experience when you're doing ocean investigations.
Overwhelmed, exhausted, angry, frustrated, etcetera.
And things like doing, say, the Trace Labs CTF, where you're looking for a missing person.
It might be a child, it could be someone abducted or whatnot.
In that scenario.
A lot of times, if you're part of the briefing, which you should go to, if you're going to do the
CTF, they talk about people being exhausted and emotionally drained, which which is not too uncommon.
Again, we're dealing with a lot of different information that we're taking in.
We can get things like information overload from from all these different sources and things that we're
sorting through.
And again, I've been in situations where I've done ocean investigations.
I've found some, well, you know, pretty.
Pretty bad thing said, you know, kind of sometimes it might shake you up or get you mad or and again
or frustrate and whatnot.
So.
Again, these things are we might not be expecting, but these are typically things that will probably
happen at some point during an investigation.
So.
The important thing is to try to try to remain calm.
And hopefully these tips can kind of help you get a handle on that.
So have a plan of attack.
Try to be organized.
So figure out what your what your goal is and kind of chart out the steps that you might need to take
in order to obtain that goal.
Things like if you have a timeline, kind of figure out how much time you could spend on each section
and try to map that out.
Also remember doing those investigations.
It's not going to be 100% most of the time, or sometimes rather, we may not always find out all the
information we're looking for.
We may not be able to find out.
Any information, depending on how much what we have and how much of a footprint the person, person
or persons or organization left behind.
So don't get frustrated with that.
Do the best you can.
Have a plan of attack.
Try to be organized.
Try to be mentally prepared yourself for what you're going to get into.
If it's a something involving the dark web and you're going to head to some pretty dark corners, then
try to get your head around that.
Things like, you know, child child abduction in that well, that's a obviously a very horrible thing.
But, you know, kind of kind of prepare yourself for that if you can.
Pace yourself if you're able to.
If if you don't have a very short timeframe in order to get something done, try to pace yourself and
don't burn yourself out when you're doing your investigations.
Try to be prepared for what you may uncover again.
Things like if we're say.
Trying to track down a child that was abducted or lured and were heading down the, you know, the the
the Facebook pages, the dark Web and whatnot and, you know, the different kind of.
Forums and that like a -- and whatnot.
Chances are we're going to see a lot of bad stuff there.
And if you're not really prepared for it, then it might catch you off guard.
So again, try to try to stay objective.
Try to try to stay focused on what your goal is and if at all possible.
Again, try try to prepare yourself, kind of know what you're getting into and take some time to decompress
after your investigation if you need to.
Again, things like the Trace Labs CTF example I like to use a lot.
It's.
Something like that.
It's you're trying to track down some information in a fairly short time frame.
And you you might get over you might get wound up, you might need to just decompress and relax, turn
on some music, watch a movie, go for a walk, whatever you need to do to kind of relax.
So again, it's important to try to decompress if you get kind of wound up during an investigation.
And if you if you do end up getting getting in that situation.
Don't beat yourself up over it.
It does happen depending on what we're doing.
So I hope these tips will will kind of prepare you for this stuff.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in next video.