Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.

Investigate illegal or suspicious activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 10 occupations and seen in 15 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Investigate criminal or legal matters. in Getting Information .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 15 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 11 (73%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Investigate reports of animal attacks or animal cruelty, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and writing reports. · Animal Control Workers · importance 4.8 · exposure with tools
• Investigate disturbances on the premises, such as security alarms, altercations, and suspicious activity. · First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Answer alarms and investigate disturbances. · Security Guards · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Investigate hunting accidents or reports of fish or game law violations. · Fish and Game Wardens · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Investigate illegal or suspicious activities. · Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area. · Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies. · Loss Prevention Managers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Institute civil and criminal prosecutions and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of those in violation of immigration or customs laws. · Customs and Border Protection Officers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Conduct investigations of information security breaches to identify vulnerabilities and evaluate the damage. · Information Security Engineers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships. · Intelligence Analysts · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property. · Transit and Railroad Police · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats. · Intelligence Analysts · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Investigate instances of illegal tapping into service lines. · Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups. · Intelligence Analysts · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Identify new threat tactics, techniques, or procedures used by cyber threat actors. · Penetration Testers · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Animal Control Workers
• First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
• Security Guards
• Fish and Game Wardens
• Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Loss Prevention Managers
• Information Security Engineers
• Intelligence Analysts
• Transit and Railroad Police
• Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-investigate-illegal-or-suspicious-activities,
  title  = {Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/investigate-illegal-or-suspicious-activities}
}