Locate suspicious objects or vehicles.

Locate suspicious objects or vehicles. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 5 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Monitor safety or security of work areas, facilities, or properties. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings .

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 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 3 (43%) 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.

• Locate suspicious bags pictured in printouts sent from remote monitoring areas, and set these bags aside for inspection. · Transportation Security Screeners · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise. · Customs and Border Protection Officers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Supervise or perform searches of inmates or their quarters to locate contraband items. · First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Search prisoners and vehicles and conduct shakedowns of cells for valuables and contraband, such as weapons or drugs. · Correctional Officers and Jailers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed. · Parking Enforcement Workers · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Locate lost, stolen, and counterfeit parking permits, and take necessary enforcement action. · Parking Enforcement Workers · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order. · Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Transportation Security Screeners
• First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
• Customs and Border Protection Officers
• Correctional Officers and Jailers
• Parking Enforcement Workers

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-locate-suspicious-objects-or-vehicles,
  title  = {Locate suspicious objects or vehicles.},
  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/locate-suspicious-objects-or-vehicles}
}