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In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather evidence of the suspect's wrongdoing. Sting operations are common in many countries including the United States,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Watch: FBI Targets American Muslims in Abusive Counterterrorism "Sting Operations" )〕 but not allowed in other countries such as Sweden.〔NJA 2007 s. 1037.〕 ==Examples== * Deploying a bait car (also called a honey trap) to catch a car thief * Setting up a seemingly vulnerable honeypot computer to lure and gain information about hackers * Arranging someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy an alcoholic beverage or tobacco products for them * Posing as someone who is seeking illegal drugs, contraband or child pornography to catch a supplier; or as a supplier to catch a customer *Passing off explosives, fake or real, to a would-be terror bomber * Posing as a child in a chat room to identify a potential child molester * Posing as a potential customer of illegal prostitution; or as a prostitute to catch a customer * Posing as a hitman to catch customers and solicitors of murder-for-hire * Posing as a spectator of an illegal dog fighting ring 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sting operation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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