surveillance activities
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurveillanceandactivity
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surveillance
noun[U]
uk/səˈveɪ.ləns/us/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or ...
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activity
noun
uk/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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If he could, then he is being dragged into the investigative process; if not, then who does account for approving the authority of asurveillanceactivity?
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As to its uses it too would be used for surveillance activities.
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One reason for updating legislation is to avoid the current position, in which all sorts of unregulated surveillance activities take place.
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Virtually all surveillance activities by private investigators are of a covert nature.
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He also says that he would like security personnel to be gainfully employed in surveillance activities inside the passenger terminal areas of airports.
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Personnel assigned to detectives possess special skills in interviewing, crime scene investigations, warrant preparation, evidence collection and preservation, and surveillance activities.
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There is neither independent judicial review of surveillance activities nor any control over the use of information obtained by monitoring private communications.
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Caul insists that he is not responsible for the actual content of the conversations he records or for the use to which his clients put his surveillance activities.
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As agents in training, they assist in carrying out surveillance activities, participating in raids, interviewing witnesses and suspects, searching for physical evidence and clues, seizing contraband, and serving search warrants.
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