Briefly outline some of the ways that surveillance can aid an investigation

What will be an ideal response?


Surveillance can aid an investigation in many ways:
• Gain information required for building a criminal complaint.
• Determine an informant's loyalty.
• Verify a witness's statement about a crime.
• Gain information required for obtaining and executing a search or arrest warrant, such as who lives at a property, how many people are there, what the layout of the property is, etc.
• Gain information necessary for interrogating a suspect.
• Identify a suspect's associates.
• Observe members of terrorist organizations.
• Find a person wanted for a crime.
• Observe criminal activities in progress.
• Make a legal arrest.
• Apprehend a criminal in the act of committing a crime.
• Prevent a crime.
• Recover stolen property.
• Protect witnesses.

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