Lesson 34 Flashcards
Customs declaration form
Form showing how much money and what goods you are carrying
Landing card
From with your personal details and date of arrival
Vaccination certificate
Paper proving you have had the necessary health injections
Entry regulations
Rules about who can enter a country and for how long
Facial recognition technology
Computer application that can authomatically identify a person from a visual image
Spot check
Checks done as a sample, rather than checking everyone or everything
Banned or restricted goods
Items that are forbidden or only permitted in specified quantities
Allowance
Amount permitted by law
Sniffer/detector dogs
Specially trained dogs who locate specific items using their sense of smell
Detect
Find something hidden
Clear customs
Successfully get through baggage checking
Port of entry
The port or airport where you first enter a country
Refugees
People who have escaped from their own country for political reasons
Asylum
To request permission to stay in another country to avoid persecution back home
Persecution
Cruel treatment because of race, religion or political beliefs
Enforce
Make people obey
Suspicion
Belief that something may be the case
Search warrant
Official permission from a judge or magistrate to search a home
Exceeding the speed limit
Going faster than the permitted speed
Traffic wardens
Someone whose job is to make certain that people do not leave their cars in illegal places
Surveillance
The careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or is expected
Security forces
Often a name for the army and police working together
Plain-clothes police
Police who do not wear uniform
Undercover police
Police who do not wear uniform
Drug squad
Police specially trained to fight the illegal drug trade
Anti-corruption squad
Police specially trained to discover and fight bribery/corruption
Cyber crime
Computer crime
Phishing
An attempt to trick someone who has an internet bank account into giving information that would allow someone else to take money out of the account