The evil three are played by Joong-Hoon Park, Ted Levine and Lisa Gay Hamilton Christine Boissonn is the French police inspector assigned to the case and Tim Robbins is the United States embassy official who provides some ambiguous assistance.
The 18 positions include an inspector in charge of Safety Town, a miniature village in Eisenhower Park used to teach children about traffic safety; inspectors in the legal and marine bureaus; a deputy inspector assigned to the Records Bureau, and a captain assigned to the Police Activities League.
Even searching sitting targets can be daunting to the few inspectors assigned to outlying areas, like the busy port of Gonaives.
There are two to three F.D.A. inspectors assigned to police the flood of illegal drug shipments among the nearly 1.3 million pieces of foreign mail that flow through J.F.K. every day.
In 2008, two F.A.A. inspectors assigned to Southwest Airlines testified before Congress that their managers had let Southwest fly its Boeing 737s without inspections for cracks that the safety agency required.
Unlike the United States, where nearly 2,000 permanent and seasonal armed rangers patrol 387 national parks, Mexico's protected areas are hardly protected at all, with fewer than 400 roving, unarmed inspectors assigned to watch over 150 natural reserves.
Several agencies had inspectors assigned to the site all day, every day — there were four Buildings Department inspectors and a supervisor whose only responsibility was the bank tower — while city officials have said that the Fire Department failed to inspect the building at all, as it was required to do.
The United Nations inspectors assigned to monitor Iran's nuclear program are now searching for evidence of two such sites, prompted by recent comments by a top Iranian official that drew little attention in the West, and are looking into a mystery about the whereabouts of recently manufactured uranium enrichment equipment.
Police and municipal inspectors assigned to control street vendors go on the beat between 7 00 and 7 30 a.m., so that "we have to disappear until 10 00 a.m. at least," at which time the cops take a break and for the moment the streets are no longer dangerous.
Bus inspectors check vehicles for safety violations and make sure the buses actually travel the routes that inspectors assign to them.
Mr. Schick said that a Buildings Department inspector is assigned to the building full time, as are inspectors from the E.P.A. and the state Labor Department, who are checking for environmental hazards.
