[ noun ] surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) <noun.act>
The stakeout comes to an abrupt halt when the suspects spot the hidden camera through the blinds of a vacant apartment and burst in on the officers.
Collins said the problems began when Hensley asked the girl, who lives with a roommate and works as a waitress, to join him on a stakeout at the local high school on Feb. 26.
It offers workshops and seminars on such things as hostage negotiation, stakeout and surveillance techniques, confidential informants, clandestine drug labs, bomb awareness.
He admits that the eerie quiet and whipping autumn wind he encountered during a recent graveyard stakeout gave him the "willies."
West's arrest at about 10:30 a.m. Monday followed a five-hour stakeout of his apartment by some of the investigators, May said.