surveillance teams
Hidden monitoring groups
Surveillance teams are groups assigned to monitor a person, location, or activity, typically without the target's knowledge.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies use surveillance teams to gather evidence or track suspects: The surveillance team followed him for three weeks before making an arrest.
The term also appears in corporate security and private investigation contexts.
- operativesThose who execute missions
- stakeoutProlonged covert observation
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- agentsThose who act for others
- watchersThose who look on
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surveillance teamsbeat cops
Officers patrolling assigned neighborhoods
foot patrol · patrol officers · traffic police · public safety officers · security guards
surveillance teamspersons of interest
Individuals investigators want to question
surveillance teamscitizen oversight
Public supervision of authorities
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