2. Render the following into English.

1. Расследование уголовных дел осуществляется, как правило, полицией. 2. Традиционно обвинение в английских судах по большинству уголовных дел поддерживалось либо полицией, либо отдельными гражданами. 3. Согласно традиционной точке зрения судьи применяют существующие законы, но не участвуют в расследовании дела. 4. Подразделения в областях Великобритании возглавляют главные констебли. 5. Они несут ответственность за свою работу перед центральными полицейскими органами, которые назначают начальника полиции и его помощника. 6. Руководство ФБР планирует создание единой компьютерной базы данных всех правоохранительных органов США, которая будет содержать информацию о преступниках и вещественных доказательствах, собранных в ходе расследований.

Discussion Points

1. Compare the function of the police mentioned in the text with the ones used in your country.

2. Police officers may use guns in any kind of work. Give points for and against this statement.

3. Give points for and against the election of judges.

Extra Activity

1. Here is the crime solved by Detective Shadow. What is the solution?

Jim Cool waited until Ed Fry left the office of author Harry Queen. Cool slipped on a pair of gloves, took a handgun from his desk, and crossed the hall to Queen's office. As Queen looked up to see who was there, Cool took aim and shot. Cool dropped the gun on the floor, picked up the telephone on Queen's desk and called the police. He then went back across the hall to his own office and hid the gloves. Shadow arrived moments later and Cool told his story. "I was working at my desk when I heard a shot. I ran to the hall and saw a man fitting the description of Ed Fry running from Queen's office. I went to Queen's office and found him lying on the floor dead. I immediately picked up the phone on Queen's desk and called the police."

Several hours later Shadow arrested Cool for murder. Why was he so easily caught?

2. Read the text and answer the question below. He Demanded Two Parachutes

One day a man kidnapped a little boy and hid him in the woods. He sent the boy's parents a note telling them to leave him ten thousand pounds in large bank notes in an airport locker. The parents were to wait* for four hours and then go to the locker. There they would find directions how to find their child. He demanded to follow all his orders without calling the police and also said that unless they left him the money, they would not see their child.

At first he wanted to take the child with him as a hostage, but then decided against it. He knew that the police were good at trapping people who had hostages with them.

At the appointed time, he went to the airport and took the money from the locker. He left the directions where the boy was and ran because the police were close behind him. He boarded the nearest plane and forced the pilot to take off before he was caught.

He understood that the police would be waiting for him when the plane landed, so he had a plan how to save himself. He decided to cheat the pilots and the police. He forced the hostess to give him two para­chutes. He took her with him to the back exit door of the plane and waited several minutes, so the pilots couldn't know the exact place where he would jump out of the plane. Then he put one of the parachutes on and jumped alone from the plane. In this way he managed to escape.

Why did the man demand two parachutes?