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ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК В СФЕРЕ ЮРИСПРУДЕНЦИИ

Контрольная работа № 2.

Вариант 3

Police Discipline

Read the text and translate passages 1-3 in writing.

The police are not above the law and must act within it. A police officer is an agent of the law of the land and may be sued or prosecuted for any wrongful act committed in the performance of police duties. Officers are also subject to a disciplinary code designed to deal with abuse of police powers and maintain public confidence in police impartiality. If found guilty of breaching the code, an officer can be dismissed from the force.

Members of the public have the right to make complaints against police officers if they feel that they have been treated unfairly or improperly. In England and Wales the investigation and resolution of complaints is scrutinised by the independent Police Complaints Authority. The Authority must supervise any case involving death or serious injury and has discretion to supervise in any other case. In addition, the Authority reviews chief constables' proposals on whether disciplinary charges should be brought against an officer who has been the subject of a complaint. If the chief constable does notrecommend formal disciplinary charges, the Authority may, if it disagrees with the decision, recommend and, if necessary, direct that charges be brought.

The Government aims to ensure that the quality of service provide by police forces in Britain inspires public confidence, and that the police have the active support and involvement of the communities which they serve. The police service is taking effective action to improve performance and standards. All forces in England and Wales have in consult with the communities they serve and develop policing policies to meet community demands. They have to be more open and explicit about their operations and the standards of service that they offer.

Virtually all forces have liaison departments designed to develop closer contact between the force and the community. These department consist of representatives from the police, local councillors and community groups.

Particular efforts are made to develop relations with young people through greater contact with schools and their pupils.

The Government has repeatedly stated its commitment to improve relations between the police and ethnic minorities. Central guidance recommends that all police officers should receive a thorough training in community and race relations issues. Home Office and police initiative, are designed to tackle racially motivated crime and to ensure that the issue is seen as a priority by the police. Discriminatory behaviour by police officers, either to other officers or to members of the public, is an offence under the Police Discipline Code. All police forces recognise the need to recruit women and members of the ethnic minorities in order to ensure that the police represent the community. Every force has an equal opportunities policy.

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What disciplinary measures are police officers subject to?

2. What authorities supervise police conduct?

3. What helps improve police-public co-operation?

4. What is a liaison department?

5. How are race related issues tackled by the police?

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

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

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 wich__________ 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 wich 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 crimes which they had not committed. Some other inquiries revealed more cases of _________ by the police.

3. Передайте следующие предложения в косвенной речи.

1. She said: "I am busy today and I shall be busier tomorrow."

2. Jane said: "I shall come to school early tomorrow."

3. They said: "We shall not go to school on Sunday."

4. Mr. Dickson said: "I shall have to pay a lot of money for the car."

5. Peter said to me: "I'll be waiting for you at the station."

6. Mary said: "I'll be back soon."

7. She said to me: "What are you going to do when you come home?"

8. She said: "I hope I'll soon speak English well."

9. He said: "I am sure it will rain tomorrow."

10. They said: "We shall go to the river tomorrow if it is hot."