Once you are convinced that you are being shadowed, the following simple steps should help you: -

•  Do not follow a routine in terms of routes, timings, place of visits or entertainment etc. Keep changing these randomly as far as possible.
•  If you have grave apprehensions or consider your vulnerability very high, keep changing the vehicle even. You could park at a public place like a hotel or a cinema and take a cab to your destination. Do whatever can be done to make your shadow lose track of you.
•  Make abrupt movements, go to blind alleys or dead ends. Shadows generally do not like to enter such places or situations.
•  You may also enter a hotel or a building from one door and exit from another.
•  If you are a woman, go to a crowded place and call for help. A shadow will generally disappear: shadows are trained to avoid direct confrontation with their subject. This gives you a chance to give him a slip.
•  Avoid being predictive in your movements and activities.
•  AND FINALLY DO NOT PANIC OR LOSE YOUR COOL. Think of the best way out.
•  It is important to try and identify the shadow so that you can inform the police. You can shake off shadows for most of the times but not ALL the times, specially if you are not professionally trained to do so.
•  If you are in a high risk category then you must make your family members also aware of these measures and specially the driver who may be picking up or dropping the children to school.