Sentence examples for investigatory techniques from inspiring English sources

One of the covert investigatory techniques covered by Ripa is intrusive surveillance.

For example, by asking which specific covert investigatory techniques should be removed, it managed to get mixed answers that failed to produce a clear vote against any one technique.

Through the 1980s and 1990s the European court of human rights repeatedly found the United Kingdom in breach of article 8 (right to respect for private life) because there was an insufficiently clear legal basis for various investigatory techniques used by the police; the UK fell foul of the requirement that any interference with a person's privacy must be "in accordance with the law".

For example, what are the implications should I be charged with a criminal offence and appear in court to defend myself?" The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa), which came into force on the same day in 2000 as the Human Rights Act, provides a legal basis for various covert investigatory techniques.

With the number of heroin overdoses skyrocketing nationwide, a growing number of law enforcement agencies are dusting off strict, rarely used drug laws, changing investigatory techniques and relying on technology to prosecute drug dealers for causing overdose deaths.

For example, in understanding the causes of adverse events, highly systematic and standardised investigatory techniques have been developed for analysing medical errors (eg, using human factors frameworks to identify causal factors 15).

However she also noted the government has rejected calls to eject bulk equipment interference warrants (aka mass hacking as a sanctioned state agencies investigatory technique) from the bill.

Last year the UK parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee also raised concerns about bulk hacking as an investigatory technique, recommending the provision be removed entirely from the draft Investigatory Powers bill before parliament, saying it had not seen "sufficiently compelling evidence" to justify sanctioning such an intrusive capability.

A legal challenge lodged on Tuesday at the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) calls for the hacking techniques – alleged to be far more intrusive than interception of communications – to be outlawed.

The effort involved about 40 staff at its peak, 485 applications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act - the law governing the use of covert techniques by public authorities - plus analysis of more than 500,000 lines of telecoms data, 120 trading accounts and more than 600 digital devices, including pay-as-you-go mobile phones that were routinely discarded.

Initially at least, those who knew about Mulcaire's "special inquiries" were relatively sparing and discrete about the use of the technique, which formally became illegal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in 2000.