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 |