Portable Video Surveillance arms people with surveillance cameras carried on their person, or placed in temporary locations to view people or events for improper conduct without alerting subjects they are being filmed by a surveillance camera.

Portable Video Surveillance is used to help capture evidence and inform those watching about the condition of those undercover. Portable Video Surveillance can either show what is happening during an undercover operation, and / or transmit those video signals to a digital video recorder to store the events witnessed.