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O*NET detailed work activityLocate suspicious objects or vehicles
Stays humanWatch & inspect
6 jobs7 tasks
Inspecting and monitoring in person means noticing what's off with your own eyes, ears and hands, and being accountable for calling it.
Part of Monitor safety or security of work areas, facilities, or properties, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Search prisoners and vehicles and conduct shakedowns of cells for valuables and contraband, such as weapons or drugs.
- Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
- Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise.
- Locate suspicious bags pictured in printouts sent from remote monitoring areas, and set these bags aside for inspection.
- Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
- Locate lost, stolen, and counterfeit parking permits, and take necessary enforcement action.