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Investigate illegal or suspicious activities

AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.

Part of Investigate criminal or legal matters, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 14 AI-assist, 1 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.AI-assist Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Investigate disturbances on the premises, such as security alarms, altercations, and suspicious activity.AI-assist First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
• Identify new threat tactics, techniques, or procedures used by cyber threat actors.AI-assist Penetration Testers
• Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.AI-assist Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Answer alarms and investigate disturbances.AI-assist Security Guards
• Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.AI-assist Intelligence Analysts
• Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.AI-assist Intelligence Analysts
• Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.AI-assist Transit and Railroad Police
• Conduct investigations of information security breaches to identify vulnerabilities and evaluate the damage.AI-assist Information Security Engineers
• Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.AI-assist Intelligence Analysts
• Investigate instances of illegal tapping into service lines.AI-assist Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Investigate reports of animal attacks or animal cruelty, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and writing reports.Stays human Animal Control Workers
• Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.AI-assist Loss Prevention Managers
• Institute civil and criminal prosecutions and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of those in violation of immigration or customs laws.AI-assist Customs and Border Protection Officers
• Investigate hunting accidents or reports of fish or game law violations.AI-assist Fish and Game Wardens