Since 2012, the NYPD's Intelligence Division has officially encouraged its employees to engage in "catfishing" on social media sites "for investigative or research purposes," which, with the permission of police brass, may include "investigations involving political activity".
Current areas of research include investigations into device performance, fabrication, packaging, and device driving.
Examples include investigations of pharmaceutical opioids, immigration, net neutrality, and environmental regulations.
Personnel security investigations include investigations conducted for the purpose of making personnel security determinations.
Both phases also include investigations on a standard bitumen-bound mixture.
Other new applications include investigations of mineral oxidations and of engineered approaches such as photo-bioreactors.
The business of the committee, to include investigations, occurs in secure, locked rooms at the Hart building.
Such research should include investigations into the cause, diagnosis, early detection, prevention, control, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
Simulations include investigations for the effects of FMHA discharge flow rate differences, turbulence models, and steam generator conditions.
Other projected uses include investigations of contaminated locations where monitored natural attenuation or engineered bioremediation could be employed.
A spokesman for the S.E.C., John Heine, declined to comment on whether that would include investigations of individuals at the banks.
