covert surveillance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcovertandsurveillance
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covert
adjective
uk/ˈkəʊ.vɜːt/us/ˈkoʊ.vɝːt/
hidden ...
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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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I hear more and more aboutcovertsurveillanceand people being picked up in car parks and whistled off here and there.
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We deal withcovertsurveillancein the courts every single day of the week.
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I welcome the closer regulation ofcovertsurveillanceand interception of communications by our law enforcement and security agencies.
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The accused would automatically have the schedule of sensitive material, listing details of informants,covertsurveillancetechniques and other methods of fighting crime.
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To stop and question the target about the crime would not be consistent for the purposes ofcovertsurveillance.
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I apply the case less strongly tocovertsurveillance, simply because it covers a wider range of activities.
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No central records are kept of the number ofcovertsurveillanceoperations carried out each year.
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There were the big boys—the heavy players that we would expect to have powers of directed surveillance andcovertsurveillance.
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Covertsurveillanceincludes a range of monitoring activities which can vary greatly in scale and duration.
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That may involvecovertsurveillance.
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It has always seemed to me of central importance in consideringcovertsurveillanceto appreciate that the effect of covert surveillance is not limited to the suspected villain.
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The issue is whether an officer from overseas entering this country while performing acovertsurveillance operation should be prohibited from stopping, searching or questioning the person under surveillance.
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We were given useful information about the use ofcovertsurveillanceand other methods of ensuring that the authorities knew which flights people had arrived on.
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Even if they are following up a known criminal, they must give sufficient evidence to obtain a warrant to allow them to engage incovertsurveillance.
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For example, a body that dealt with public health might have to undertake somecovertsurveillanceto check whether assurances about a specific product were soundly based.
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It was not only students who had their laptops'covertsurveillancemechanism turned on.
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It was responsible for over 35 successfulcovertsurveillanceoperations.
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As to the right of privacy,covertsurveillanceremains the major concern.
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Those that were taken to court saw cases that involved 112 witness statements, supported bycovertsurveillancefootage in some instances.
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In 2010, it was reported that the police might have conductedcovertsurveillanceover the phone conversations of participants of the anti-express rail demonstrations.
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