II. COMPREHENSION. 1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

1. What is the purpose of the justice sector in the UK?

2. How many people are employed in the sector?

3. What forces do the police and law-enforcement agencies in the UK include?

4. What is the oldest police force in the UK?

5. What caused setting up an organized police service in London?

6. What is Robert Peel’s role in the history of the MPS?

7. Why is the MPS known all over the world?

8. What is the MPS responsible for today?

9. When was SOCA created?

10. What are SOCA’s main functions?

5. Find in the text words and expressions which mean:

1. the job of making sure that the law is obeyed;

2. to try to deal with a difficult problem;

3. an official attempt to find out the truth about or the causes of something such as a crime, accident, or scientific problem;

4. when a charge is made against someone for a crime, or when someone is judged for a crime in a court of law;

5. a duty to be in charge of someone or something, so that you make decisions and can be blamed if something bad happens;

6. a situation in which rules are obeyed and authority is respected;

7. the use of violence such as bombing, shooting, or kidnapping to obtain political demands such as making a government do something.

 

III. VOCABULARY STUDY

Complete the sentences with the words from the active vocabulary.

offence	crime prevention	to tackle	the investigation
to police	justice	to reduce	order

1. Effective…….. must be our main goal.

2. A private detective was hired to conduct …….

3. There is more than one way …….. the problem.

4. The governor announced a new plan ……….. crime.

5. The killers will be brought to ……………..

6. The police was called in to restore ………….

7. The possession of stolen property is a criminal ………….

8. The army was brought in …………….. the city centre.

2. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following phrases:

Cлугувати моделлю; cтворити та зберігати безпечне, справедливе та стабільне суспільство; протидія тероризму; зменшувати рівень злочинності; сприяти відправленню правосуддя; підтримання правопорядку; запобігання та розкриття злочинів; правоохоронні органи; боротися з організованою злочинністю; розслідування та переслідування правопорушень; сфера відповідальності;; аналізувати та розповсюджувати інформацію.

Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below. Use the words only once.

to set up	to serve	to analyze and disseminate
to police	to create and maintain	to prevent and detect
people	significant	to promote

1. …… a safe, just and stable society

2. ……. serious organised crime

3. ………as the model

4………… national responsibilities

5. …………..information

6. ………….an organized police service

7…………specific local areas

8. …………smuggling

9. ………….confidence

Playing with words.

Find the phrase equal in meaning to each single word on the right.

in this place	instantly
as a rule	gradually
at the same time	seldom
at once	here
now and then	presently
in every possible place	generally
little by little	occasionally
in that place	never
not very often	there
in a moment or two	recently
not long ago	simultaneously
at no time	everywherer

Guess the meaning of the following idioms, then fill in the gaps in the sentences below.

doing time – at large –as thick as thieves - daylight robbery- caught red-handed –on the alert - crime doesn’t pay – in cold blood

1. “You shouldn’t even think about stealing money from the firm; you should know that…………………”.

2. “They charged me 50 $ for that awful lunch! That’s ………………….!”

3. The burglar was caught …………….. trying to break the window of the house.

4. After ………….. for pick pocketing, he swore he would never commit another crime.

5. To avoid being robbed in large cities, one should be …………. at all times.

6. He killed his accomplice …………… and said that he felt no regrets afterwards.

7. The police announced that a serial killer was ………… and advised people to remain inside with their doors and windows locked.

8. Tom and Jerry are …………….; they spend all their free time together.

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