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After following the above advice, I will answer your question for a basic skill set for recovery work in general:
1) Basic investigative skills: Research methods, gathering information from a variety of sources and knowing how to interpret that data.
2) Interrogation/interviewing skills- These are an art form. More than just asking someone a question. It's recognizing body language, eye movement, tone inflections, nervous twitches, etc.
3) Basic hand to hand combat skills.
4) Basic track and field skills: need to be able to sprint, climb, jump, dodge, crawl, etc through a variety of obstacles.
5) Tactical entry's and team movement: Need to organize your team and practice a variety of skills: How to enter a house, an apartment, a trailer, etc. Who is doing what and thier position in the team: entry person, upward coverage, below coverage, right flank, left flank, rear...
6) Basic surveillance techniques and strategies: Knowing how to dress accordingly to fit into your fugitive's environment, often referred to as "Urban Camoflauge". For example, if your fugitive is a welder and in a union, then you need to learn about welding and union rules, dress the part, know the trade lingo, etc. If the fugitive is in construction, same thing.
7) Know the Laws of where you are going: Not just where you live, but where you are going to apprehend your fugitive. Your home based laws may differ from your area of apprehension laws. Already have the address and phone numbers of the law enforcement agencies of where you are going in your folder. Always check in with these agencies before making your apprehension. I cannot tell you how many cases I have worked where I was ready to take physical custody of my fugitive only to check the status of my warrants at the last minute and discovered the warrants had been recalled.
8 Basic training in proper hand cuffing techniques, use of chemical sprays, batons, stun guns, tazers, etc. Whatever "Bat Toys" you have on your "Bat Belt". You need to be intricately familiar and expertly trained with to the point you can deploy them without thinking about it. Called "Muscle memory retention" or reflex action. This only comes from repetitive training.
9) Weapons: This is a whole different area for discussion. too long for this thread. I don't even know if weapons are allowed in Australia. However, there are a number of articles in this forum regarding weapons. you can click on the "search" button and type in keywords of "guns" "weapons" etc. and read those articles.
10) Training: There are a number of qualified schools in the U.S. that teach how to do this job correctly, some are even online.
Again you can use the search function and type in "BEA schools" and see those articles.
One thing to realize is that doing recovery work is a business. So you also need basic small business skills, such as financial management, accounting, advertising, client retention, marketing, etc. It's not all about simply "Kicking butt and taking names". Those days are over with. Modern Day insurance companies and bail bondspersons are looking for highly professional, skilled, trained investigators that can exonerate thier bonds without incurring vicarious liability situations. In other words, you don't do anyone any good if you capture a $10, 000.00 skip, but in the process you just caused a million dollar lawsuit to be brought against yourself and your bondsperson/insurance company.
Again these comments are simply my opinion in an effort to answer your question. Others may have more to add.
Take care and God Bless,
Ruffin.
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River City Associates
Decatur, Al. 35601
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thank you. Both of you.