The police have begun checking vehicles across the city and have set up several checkpoints between the airport and the main business districts.

The entry and exit points now have computerized monitoring units that check vehicles entering and coming out of the railway station.

Systematically the soldiers searched every parking lot, checked vehicles; most of them were locked.

Rather than actually check vehicles, they will only observe Serbian police inspections.

The morale of the troops was so low that some servicemen had to be disciplined for remaining in shelter while under orders to check vehicles.

Improved officer training and the use of police K-9 units for checking suspicious vehicles may allow increased detection.

Car buyers in the North-East are racing to check vehicles against national computer records as part of a new initiative against auto crime.

Even with American marines checking vehicles for guns and patrolling Mogadishu, the city remains lawless.

As a result, policemen and soldiers with guns on their backs check vehicles at roadblocks scattered around the city.