The fbi National Academy

The importance of professional preparation for the practice of law enforcement cannot be overly stressed. Training, in the words of the late Director of the FBI and Founder of the National Academy, J. Edgar Hoover, is “truly indispensable¹ to good law enforcement.”

Officers attending the FBI National Academy are offered, on a cost-free basis, a comprehensive and balanced 11-week program of advanced professional education. The FBI National Academy curriculum consists of courses relating to Management Science², Behavioral Science³, Law, Education and Communication Arts, Forensic Science and Health/Fitness.

Courses essential for effective administration in law enforcement include instruction in management concept and theories as applied to police work, budgeting for law enforcement, police unions,⁴ electronic data processing⁵, problem solving and decision making, and other advanced management topics.

An understanding of human behavior and the factors influencing it is essential to progressive law enforcement. To prepare the officers in this regard the Academy provides them with the courses of psychology, sociology, criminology, and political science⁶ as applied to current problems of police - community relations and crime.

Basic to any law enforcement educational program is knowledge of the legal aspects of police work. The students of the Academy are offered a foundation in Constitutional law and the rules governing investigative techniques, including arrests, search and seizure, evidence, confessions, evidence and theories of proof, eyewitness identification, entrapment, civil liability, and system of juvenile justice.

Instruction provided in Forensic science concerns the use of science and technology in the law enforcement systems. Procedures to be used in collecting and preserving physical evidence for submission to the forensic laboratory are emphasized.

The FBI National Academy training complex is located in Quantico, Virginia, and consists of spacious, superbly equipped living and instructional facilities.

There are special-purpose classrooms, constructed and equipped to handle such technical subjects as fingerprinting, photography, and crime-scene investigation here. A physical training center is available for student use before and after regular class hours. A number of firearms ranges, indoor as well as outdoor, permit use of all standard police weapons. Hogan’s Alley⁷ provides the realistic environment for practical exercise training. This complex includes commercial and industrial areas. It contains a bank, post office, drug store, bar, motel, movie theatre, warehouse area and a residential street with townhouses and apartments. Three dormitories comfortably house all resident students at the FBI Academy.

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¹indispensable – необходимый, обязательный

²Management Science – наука управления

³Behavioral Science – наука о поведении человека

⁴police unions – профессиональные объединения сотрудников полиции

⁵electronic data processing – обработка информации на электронных носителях

⁶Political science - политология

⁷Hogan’s Alley – криминалистический полигон

Task 33. Find the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations; memorize them.

1. профессиональная подготовка по правоохранительной деятельности

2. учебный план Национальной Академии ФБР

3. применимые к деятельности полиции

4. правовые аспекты работы полиции

5. основы конституционного права

6. установление личности очевидца

7. провокация преступления с целью его изобличения

8. гражданско-правовая ответственность

9. обор и сохранение вещественных доказательств

10. великолепно оборудованные жилые и учебные помещения

11. дактилоскопия

12. исследование места происшествия

13. центр физической подготовки

Task 34. Give derivatives to complete the chart; translate them into Russian.

Noun	Verb	Adjective
importance profession progress space	------- ------- prepare enforce educate manage investigate confess identify instruct -------	------- ------- -------

Task 35. Answer the following questions.

1. What kind of program are the officers attending the FBI National Academy offered?

2. What does the FBI National Academy curriculum consist of?

3. What do the courses essential for effective administration in law enforcement include?

4. What courses are the students of the Academy provided with in order to prepare them for understanding of human behavior and the factors influencing it?

5. What knowledge is basiс for any law enforcement educational program?

6. What subjects dealing with the legal aspect of police work do the students of the Academy take?

7. What does instruction provided in Forensic Science concern?

8. Where is the FBI National Academy training complex located?

9. What does it consist of?

10. What kind of special-purpose classrooms are there at the Academy?

11. When is a physical training center available for student use?

12. What do firearms ranges permit to use?

13. What does Hogan's Alley provide for practical exercise training?

14. What does this complex include?

15. How many dormitories are there at the Academy?

16. How many students do they house?

Task 36. Speak on a) the curriculum of the FBI National Academy, b) living and instructional facilities at the Academy.

Task 37. Practise the following for pronunciation.

physical /'fIzIkl/ Psychology /saI'kPlqGi/

applicant /'xplIkqnt/ Sociology /"sqVsI'PlqGi/

psychological /"saIkq'lPGIkl/ Philosophy /fI'lPsqfi/

graduation /"grxGu'eISn/ horizon /hq'raIzn/

diploma /dI'plqVmq/ intellectual /"IntI'lekCVql/

circumstance /'sE:kqmstxns/ experienced /Ik'spIqrIqnst/

procedure /prq'sJGq/ gymnasium /GIm'neIziqm/

lieutenant /lef'tenqnt/ obstacle /'Pbstqkl/

Task 38. Read and translate the text.