Word Study

Ex. 1.  a) Read the following. Mind the stress. State their meaning. Consult the dictionary if necessary.

	'fiction	de'tection	poli'ticians
	'warden	de'tective	investi'gation
	'patrol	fa'miliar	qualifi'cations
	'diplomat	in'tensive	under'go
	'guard	con'temporary
	'sergeant	pro'tect
	'circumstances	pre'vent

b) Pronounce correctly the following proper names:

Sir Robert Peel – [sW 'rObqt pJl]

Scotland Yard – ['skOtlqnd'jRd]

Chief Constable – [CJf 'kAnstqbl]

Criminal Investigation Department – ['krImInl In"vestI'geIS(q)n dI'pRtmqnt]

Regional Crime Squads – ['rJGqnl kraIm skwOdz]

The Royal Commission – ['rOI(q)l kq'mIS(q)n]

The Metropolitan Police of London – ["metrq'pOlIt(q)n pq'lJs Ov 'lAndqn]

The Home Secretary in England and Wales – [hqum 'sekrqtrI In 'Inglqnd xnd weIlz]

The Secretary of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland – ['sekrqtrI Ov steIt fL 'skOtlqnd xnd 'nLD(q)n 'aIqlqnd]

Ex. 2.   Complete the list of derivatives. Use a dictionary if necessary.

Verb	noun (agent)	noun (concept)
to keep
to order
to drive
to train
to investigate	investigator	investigation
to guard
to maintain
to detect

Ex. 3. Pair the words in column A with the ones from column B.

A	B
detective	skills
odd	training
professional	stories
academic	regulations
intensive	qualification
police	helmet
parking	authority
controlling	force
national	offences

Ex. 4. How are the following ideas expressed in one word?

1. an official body of men whose duty is to protect people and property, to catch criminals;

2. a policeman whose special job is to find out information that will lead to criminals being caught;

3. the condition in which laws and rules are obeyed by most of the people and the government or the person(s) in charge can keep control;

4. a certain type of clothing which all members of a group wear, esp. in the army or the police;

5. an official who helps to see that certain laws are obeyed;

6. to do what one is asked or ordered to do by someone;

7. the offence of driving faster than the lawful limit;

8. to examine the reason for something, the character of someone;

9. to go at regular times round an area or building to see that there is no trouble, that no one is trying to get in or out unlawfully;

10. to keep safe, esp. by watching for danger;

11. something unpleasant, undesirable that happens unexpectedly or by chance;

12. ownership, with its rights and duties according to the law.

Ex. 5. Match English phrases and their Russian equivalents.

the police forces	носить форму
professional skills	период интенсивной подготовки
to keep law and order	профессиональные навыки
a certain level of academic qualification	соблюдать правила парковки
to wear uniforms	уполномоченный по поддержанию порядка на дороге
traffic wardens	полицейские силы
to obey the parking regulations	обнаруживать преступников
to be armed	поддерживать правопорядок
to guard politicians and diplomats	оказывать помощь при дорожно-транспортных происшествиях
to patrol the airport	быть вооруженным
to assist at accidents	выполнять обязанности дорожно-патрульной службы
to deal with lost property	охранять политических деятелей и дипломатов
to perform road traffic duties;	патрулировать аэропорт
to detect criminals	иметь дело с пропавшим имуществом

Ex. 6. Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following:

abolished	coroner	internment	martial law
alibi	damages	justice	warder
amnesty	injunction	legislation	warrant

1. The _____________ of political prisoners is quite common in some countries. Britain tried it unsuccessfully in Northern Ireland to combat the IRA.

2. The government is thinking of introducing ___________ making it compulsory for every citizen to carry an identity card.

3. A person who looks after prisoners is called a prison officer or a ____________.

4. Since there was something very suspicious about the man’s sudden death, the __________ was held at the Town Hall.

5. In Britain, capital punishment in the form of death by hanging was ____________ in 1969.

6. The court issued an _________ forbidding the newspaper from publishing any more photographs of the Princess of Wales at a private Health Club.

7. The police have issued a ____________ for her arrest.

8. Trial by jury is an important part of the British system of _____________.

9. The new governor issued a general ____________ to all the rebels.

10. After the unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government, the whole country was put under ___________ for a month.

11. His ____________ for the night of murder was that he had been at his girlfriend’s, watching TV.

12. He successfully sued the newspaper for libel and was awarded nearly £50,000 in __________.

Ex. 7. Choose the best alternative to complete the following sentences

1. During the twentieth / eighteenth century the English police forces have become well known throughout the world / only in Great Britain.

2. Policemen are to be seen in towns and cities walking in the streets / sitting in the offices.

3. The modern policeman needs ordinary qualification / a great variety of new professional skills.

4. Separate police force is controlled by central government / a committee of local county councillors and magistrates.

5. The Royal Commission on the Police listed eight / ten main functions of the contemporary police force.

6. About a quarter of the police strength of the country is in Scotland Yard / the Metropolitan Police of London.

7. In practice the police help the court much / bring almost all criminal cases to court.

8. Opinion polls show that the majority / the minority of the public sympathize with the police.

9. The decision to commence criminal/civil proceeding in England and Wales is made by the police/the court.

10. The British police generally do not carry firearms/ are regularly armed.

11. Members of CID are inspectors/detectives and they wear/do not wear uniforms.

12. Britain has/has no national police force.

Ex. 8. Complete the following text with the words and expressions from the box:

misconduct; opinion polls; justice; sympathy; mob violence; failures; complaints; terrorist offence

Most people have a positive attitude to the police, and _____ _____ have indicated that there is much public _____ with men and women who have to deal with _____ _____. There is a formal system through which _____ of police behaviour may be investigated, but in the late 1990s it was found that these procedures had not prevented some serious _____ in the system of administering _____. Some Irish people had been convicted of a _____ _____ on the basis of confessions which had been improperly extracted from them, and the truth was discovered only after they had spent several years in prison. There were other cases too in which there were grounds for suspecting that the police had persuaded people to confess to crimes which they had not committed. Some other inquiries revealed more cases of _____ by the police.