ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Surveillance is the careful watching of someone, especially by an organization such as the police or the army. He was arrested after being kept under constant surveillance. Police swooped on the home after a two-week surveillance operation. Police keep track of the kidnapper using electronic surveillance equipment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Close surveillance is “surveillance maintained where the prevention of loss of the subject is paramount."

Detailed explanation-3: -/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or is expected: The police have kept the nightclub under surveillance because of suspected illegal drug activity. More banks are now installing surveillance cameras.

Detailed explanation-4: -If you break down the word surveillance you get the prefix sur, from the French word for “over” and the root veiller, meaning “to watch.” All of which is a roundabout way of saying that if you are under surveillance, you are being closely watched-usually by the authorities, and usually not for a good reason!

Detailed explanation-5: -Electronic Monitoring. Electronic monitoring, or wiretapping, refers to the surveillance of email, fax, Internet and telephone communications. Fixed Surveillance. Stationary Technical Surveillance. Three-Person Surveillance. Undercover Operations.