what is STING OPERATION?

Question

plz give in simple and clear language the meaning of this.

Answer 1

Sting Operation

If a law enforcement agency sees a pattern of crime, then they set up the 'bait' and see if a perpetrator will take it - like a beautiful girl dressed like a hooker in the "wrong side of town" district.
The girl makes no offer - lets the other person make all the statements (otherwise if she makes the offer it is entrapment) - he says the right words - what sex act for how much

he is toast and he gets STUNG

Answer 2

In law enforcement, a sting operation is an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime by means of deception. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather evidence of the suspect's wrongdoing.

Examples:

Purchasing illegal drugs to catch a supplier
Deploying a bait car to catch an auto thief
Posing as a client to catch a prostitute or pimp / escort agency
Posing as a prostitute to catch a client
Posing as someone who is seeking child pornography to catch a supplier
Posing as a supplier of child pornography to lure a child molester
Posing as a child in a chat room to lure a child molester
Police arranging someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy alcoholic beverage for him or her[1]
Law-enforcement may have to be careful not to provoke the commission of a crime by someone who would not normally be inclined to do so. In common law jurisdictions, the defendant may invoke the defense of entrapment.

A related matter is parking a car as a honey trap for car thieves, etc. In computing, a honeypot can be used to gain information about a potential cracker.

Occasionally, a sting operation is kept secret from other associates. Additionally, sting operations may be a component of a conspiracy.

Several novels and short stories by science fiction author Philip K. ****, such as A Scanner Darkly, revolve around sting operations that have gotten out of hand.

Answer 3

A sting operation is so named because it is a fast and painful attack, much like being stung by a wasp. The term is often used by law enforcment officials who set up an operation to lure in criminals and then surprise them with a quick "sting" and arrest them before they realize what is going on