Operations in which officers dress as and play the role of potential victims in the hope of attracting and catching a criminal.

• A. Entrapment
• B. Decoy Operations
• C. Field Notes
• D. Intelligence-Led Policing

Answer: (B)

Decoy operations involve officers dressing as and playing the role of potential victims to attract and catch offenders. This tactic creates a controlled scenario where criminals who target vulnerable targets may reveal themselves, allowing officers to intervene and make arrests while collecting evidence. It differs from entrapment, which would be improperly persuading someone who wouldn’t otherwise commit a crime to do so; decoy operations are about offering a lure in a legitimate investigative context and must be carefully managed to avoid crossing legal lines. Field notes are simple records of observations, not a tactic for catching criminals, and intelligence-led policing is a broader, data-driven approach to directing resources rather than a specific lure-based technique.