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- the next day - to walk along a road
- to act a role of a victim - the following day
- to act the role very well - to pick out a person from an
identification parade
Task 4. Are you attentive? Check yourself. Arrange sequence of events in the right order:
- the policewoman changed into plain clothes;
- the man went up to the policewoman again caught her arm and plucked at her dress;
- a group of people came out of a house on the road and the man hurried away;
- he began to make improper suggestions to her and tried to take her arm;
- she shook herself free and continued walking along the road;
- he was later picked out from an identification parade by a number of his victims, and in due course he was sent to prison;
- she was able to give a complete and accurate description of the man, who was arrested on the following day;
- she turned on him angrily and told him to take himself off, but inwardly she had become extremely frightened;
- the man appeared and went up to the policewoman;
- she had been so absorbed in her role that she had not realised that instead of walking towards the waiting police car she had
been walking away from it and she was now almost out of reach of any help she might need;
- she strolled down a road;
- the man followed her;
- she was just preparing to shout for help.
Text 12. Golden rule of the police
The police have nothing whatever to do with the moral behaviour of individuals. They do not regard themselves as
judges of what a private person should or should not do so long as the law is not broken. Drunkenness, gambling, adultery,
are not, with certain exceptions, criminal offences, and the police never interfere with such cases if no offence has been
committed. On the other hand, every police officer, man or woman has had some experience of being asked for advice by
members of the public on domestic or family matters. Such advice as the police officer is able to give is, of course, always
given, but it is a golden rule throughout the police service that advice should never be given unless it is first asked for. The
happy relationship which exists between police and public in Britain would be immediately destroyed if the police ever got
the reputation of being busybodies who put their noses into affairs with which they are not properly concerned.
Task 1. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
1. The police control the moral behaviour of individuals.
2. Drunkenness, gambling, adultery are criminal offences and the police interfere with such cases.
3. Golden rule of the police is to prevent crimes at any cost.
4. To be a busybody means to put one’s nose into affairs with which this person is not properly concerned.
Task 2. Fill in the gaps with a proper preposition.
a) The police have nothing whatever to do… the moral behaviour of individuals.
b) Every police officer, man or woman, has had some experience of being asked … advice … members … the public …
domestic or family matters.
c) The happy relationship which exists … police and public in Britain would be immediately destroyed if the police ever got the
reputation … being busybodies who put their noses … affairs … which they are not properly concerned.
between, with, of, for, with, into, of, by, on.
Task 3. Comment on the following statements.
1. The police have nothing to do with the moral behaviour of individuals.
2. The golden rule of the police service is that advice should never be given unless it is first asked for.
Text 13. The detailed knowledge of law is absolutely necessary
For the policeman the detailed knowledge of law is absolutely necessary. It is not enough for a policeman to arrest a
burglar, who is breaking into a house, simply because housebreaking is commonly accepted as a criminal act. When he
comes to charge the burglar with his crime, he must quote the relevant section of the Act of Parliament, which lays down
housebreaking as a criminal offence. He must appreciate, for instance, the subtle difference between larceny and burglary. He
must understand and be able to apply the laws, which govern his powers of arrest, the laws relating to evidence and the code
for conducting an inquiry which is laid down in the Judges’ Rules. He must learn, for example, that a man may not be
searched in a public place, and may not be searched at all unless he has agreed to be searched or unless he is under arrest. If
one citizen brings a charge against another citizen, the policeman must be able to sum up quickly whether there is a prima
facie case or not and he must know in what circumstances he is obliged to take the charge, whatever his own opinion, and
when he can refuse it. The amount of law, he is expected to know, is in fact more than a barrister has to use in daily legal
work.
Task 1. Find English equivalents of the following Russian expressions:
- детальное знание закона;
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