| landing card | form with your personal details and date of arrival |
| customs declaration form | form showing how much money and what goods you are carrying |
| vaccination certificate | paper proving you have had the neccessary health injections |
| entry restrictions | rules about who can enter a country and for how long |
| spot checks/random checks | checks done without warning x2 |
| sniffer dogs | specially trained dogs who can smell drugs and bombs |
| to clear customs | to take one's bags through customs |
| the port of entry | the port or airport where you first enter a country |
| political asylum | permission to stay in another country to avoid political persecution back home |
| economic migrants | poeple who try to enter from poorer countries just to get work |
| offence | illegal action /formal/ |
| fixed penalty | fixed sum payable for a particular offence |
| on0the-spot fine | fine payable at the time and place that you commit offence |
| parking tickets | papers placed on driver's windscreen fining them for illegal parking |
| breathalyser | an instrument which you blow into that shows if you have consumed alcohol recently |
| to make a statement | to say what happened and sign a copy of it |
| stop-and-search | power to stop people and search them in the street |
| survellance cameras | cameras that record eth that happens |
| search warrant | official permission from a judge or magistrate to search your home |
| security foces | oftern a name for the army and police together enforcing the law |
| plain clothes / undercover police | police who do not wear uniform x2 |
| paramilitary police | police who are more like soldiers that civilian police officers |
| drug squad | police specially trained to fight the illegal drug trade |
| anti-corruption squad | police specially trained to discover and figth bribery/corruption |