Topic: Police in Great Britain


Grammar: Word order

 

Vocabulary notes:

 


police force

[pə’li:s  f ɔ:s]

поліцейські сили (формування), поліція

Jersey

[’dʒə:zi]

Джерсі (острів на Ла-Манші)

Guernsey

[’gə:nzi]

острів Гернсі

The Isle of Man

[ail  əv  mæn]

острів Мен

Constabulary

[kəns’tæbju:ləri]

поліція графства, регіональні поліцейські сили (міста, району)

authority n

[ɔ:’θɔriti]

орган управління

police division

[pə’li:s   diviʒn]

поліцейський відділ

police subdivision

[’sʌbdiviʒn]

поліцейський підрозділ

police station

[pə’li:s  steiʃn]

поліцейське відділення,

police beat

[pə’li:s     bi:t]

патруль, дільниця патрулювання

beat officer

[bi:t       ’ɔfisə]

дільничний інспектор

Metropolitan Police

[metrə’pɔlitn]

столична поліція

Home Secretary

[houm  ’sekrətri]

міністр внутрішніх справ в Британії

Home Office

[houm   ‘ofis]

міністерство внутрішніх справ в Британії

volunteer attr,  n

[vɔlən’tiə]

добровільний;  доброволець

truncheon   n

[’trʌntʃən]

кийок полісмена

plain-clothes man

[plein  klouðz]

поліцейський офіцер в цивільному (детектив)

frogman  n

[frɔg’mæn]

водолаз-розвідник

comprehensive  adj

[kɔmpri’hensiv]

всебічний

databank  n

[’deitəbæŋk]

банк даних

closed  circuit television camera (CCTV)

[klouzd  ’sə:kit
’teliviʒn ’kæmərə]

телекамера спостереження

sophisticated equipment

[sɔfisti’keitid  i’kwipmənt]

найсучасніша апаратура

responsible  for

[ris’pɔnsəbl]

відповідальний за щось

British Transport Рolice

[‘trænspɔ:t]

транспортна поліція Британії

Ministry of Defence Police

[di’fens]

військова поліція

999 call

[kɔ:l]

екстрений виклик поліції

His/Her  Majesty’s (H.M.)
Inspector of Consta-bulary

[’mæʤisti]

поліцейський іспектор її/його величності королеви/ короля

badges of rank

[bædʒ]

знаки розрізнення, звання

headquarters

[hed’kwɔ:tez]

1. штаб-квартира;
2. головне управління

 

 

Police force in the United Kingdom

Britain has no national police force.
        There are forty-three police forces in England and Wales and eight in Scotland; Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man,  Jersey and Guernsey have their own force each. One force is responsible  for up to three counties. In addition there are various other police services. For example the British Transport Police are responsible for policing the railway network, the UK Atomic Energy Authority  Constabulary is responsible for policing nuclear establishments and for escorting nuclear materials between establishments, the Ministry of Defense Police are responsible for the policing military establishments in Great Britain etc. as well as a number of small services for ports, waterways, tunnels and airports.
        The forces cooperate with each other but they don’t operate in another’s area unless they are asked to give assistance. This sometimes happens in very serious crimes.
Each force in Great Britain is responsible to a police authority. The police authorities must determine the local objectives set by Home Secretary. They also appoint the chief constable and the assistant chief constable, fix the size of the force, and provide buildings and equipment.
        The size of the individual force depends on the area and the population. The force areas are divided into divisions, subdivisions and local police stations.
        The Metropolitan Police Force and the City of London Force are responsible for policing London. London’s Metropolitan Police Service is the largest force. Its headquarters is New Scotland Yard. For historical reasons the Home Secretary is responsible for London’s Metropolitan Police Force.
        Each force has volunteer special constables who perform police duties in their spare time, without pay, acting in support of regular officers. They work a minimum of eight hours a month. The special constabulary symbolizes the links that exist between police forces and the communities they serve.
        Police officers do not carry guns, but they are armed with truncheons and in some forces with CS spray. However, special firearms officers support their unarmed colleagues if necessary.
        Any police officer walking his or her beat can now call upon a vast support network. This ranges from patrol cars, motorcycle units, flying squads to plain-clothes officers, frogmen and dog handlers. All these units are supported by a comprehensive system of information and control, e.g. personal radios, databanks, closed circuit television cameras, and other sophisticated equipment.
        Police officers are not allowed to join a trade union, a political party or to go on strike. All ranks, however, have their own staff associations. 
        The Home Secretary and the Scottish and Northern Ireland Secretaries, together with police authorities and chief constables, are responsible for the provision of an effective and efficient service in Britain.

    Police ranks and grades in England and Wales

 

Police Forces

Metropolitan Police Service

constable

constable

sergeant

sergeant

inspector

inspector

superintendent

superintendent

deputy chief constable

commander

chief constable

assistant commissioner

deputy commissioner

commissioner

The above ranks are usually prefixed by the word “police” or “detec­tive”, e.g. “police constable” (PC) or “detective inspector” (Dl). The detective ranks are from constable to superintendent only. In most forces, female officers are identified by the word “woman”, e.g. “woman police constable” (WPC).

 

exercises

Ex. 1.Translate the following words and word-combination into Ukrainian:
policing nuclear establishments, the Ministry of Defense Police, police authority, to appoint, to provide buildings and equipment, the force areas, the Home Secretary,to be  armed with truncheons and CS spray, rank, chief constable, national police force, various other police services, to be responsible to, to cooperate with each other, to be responsible for, volunteer special constable, to carry guns, to get a vast support, to join a trade union, to provide an effective and efficient police service.

Ex. 2. Match the English and the Ukrainian equivalents:

police beat
police subdivision
police division
constabulary
police force
Metropolitan Police

столична поліція
відділ поліції
поліцейський  патруль
поліцейський  підрозділ
поліцейське формування
поліцейське  управління

Ex.3. Match the meaning in which the following words are used in the text:

                       наказувати                             об’єднуватися
аppoint           влаштовувати    join              приєднуватися
                       устатковувати                        вступати (у партію, спілку)
                       призначати                           

                               джерело  (інформації і т. п)
headquarters              влада   
                                   головне  управління

 

Ex.4. Choose the antonyms  from the box:

regular, firearms, maximum, volunteer, right, sophisticated

 

duty                              cold  steel
minimum                             simple
recruit                                irregular

 

Ex.5. Tick the correct synonyms.
1. Home Secretary

  • Minister of family affairs
  • Minister of the interior
  • Minister of economic affairs
  • Minister of agriculture

2. metropolis

  • capital city
  • biggest city
  • oldest city
  • fastest-growing city

3. rank

  • climbing plant
  • state
  • status
  • step

Ex.6. Make  up sentences using “to be responsible to/for”and translate  them:

  • The police

is/are responsible

a police authority
  • Home Secretary

for/to

safeguarding public order
  • Each force in Britain

 

Metropolitan Police

Ex. 7. Write down all the nouns which are used with the word "police".  Translate them.

Ex. 8. Tick the correct versions:
1. A British police force may be responsible for ...

  • one county.
  • more than one county.
  • half a dozen counties.
  • three counties.

 

2. The Home Secretary controls ...

  • the Cambridgeshire  Constabulary.
  • the Metropolitan Police.
  • the appointment of chief constables.
  • the Scottish police force.

 

3. Police authorities ...

  • appoint assistant chief constables.
  • appoint all police officers.
  • instruct the police.
  • appoint chief constables.

 
4. Police officers ...

  • must be impartial.
  • are automatically members of a professional organisation.
  • usually join a trade union.
  • are active in politics.

 

Ex. 9. Translate the following  words and wordcombinations into Ukrainian and make up your own sentences:
plain-clothes officer, frogman,  dog-handler,  sophisticated equipment,  truncheon, to carry guns, to perform duties.

Ex .10. Find the English equivalents in the text:
відповідати за щось, міністерство внутрішніх справ, банк даних, кийок, транспортна поліція, управління, столична поліція, звання, озброєний, ефективна та дійова служба, міністр внутрішніх справ, поліцейські сили, дільниця патрулювання.

Ex. 11. Translate the words and word-combinations in  brackets:

  • Any police officer walking his or her (дільниця патрулювання) can now call upon a vast support network.
  • (Столична поліція) is the largest police force.
  • In the Metropolitan Police Service and (поліція району Лондона Сіті), the term Chief Constable is not used.
  • The most senior (офіцер поліції) in each of those two forces is titled Commissioner.

 

Ex. 12.  Read the following sentences and decide if they are true or false:

  • There are 42 police forces in England and Wales.
  • The forces are divided into divisions, subdivisions and local police stations.
  • The Metropolitan Police Service is responsible to the local police authority.
  • The  headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Services   is New Scotland Yard.
  • Only some police forces have volunteer special constables.
  • Police officers generally don’t carry guns.
  • Any police beat can get a vast support if necessary.
  • Police officers are allowed to join a trade union.

 

Ex. 13.  Answer  the questions:

  • How many police forces are there in England, Wales and in Scotland?
  • What are the British Transport Police, the Ministry of Defense Police, the UK   Atomic  Energy Authority Constabulary responsible for?
  • Whom is each police force responsible to?
  • What  responsibilities does the Police Authority have?
  • In what case can one police force operate in another’s area?
  • What factors does the size of the individual force depend on?
  • What forces are responsible for policing London?
  • Whom are the Metropolitan Police responsible to?
  • What is the largest police force?
  • Who helps the police to perform police duties in their spare time?
  •  For how many hours do they work?
  •  Do police officers carry guns in Great Britain?
  •  Who supports any police beat if necessary?
  •  Are police officers allowed to join a trade union, a political party or to go on strike?
  •  Are there any associations representing the interests of the various ranks?
  •  Who is responsible for the provision of an effective and efficient police service?

 

Ex. 14. Read and translate the text. Speak on the tasks of the police:

In 1829 Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police in London (today “Metropolitan Police Service”), which can  be regarded as the first modern police force. The following guidelines were laid down at that time: “The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime. The next is that of detection and punishment of offenders if a crime has been committed. All efforts of police must be directed to these ends. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity and the absence of crime will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful.”

Ex.15. Translate into English:
Кріс Генкок інформує свого колегу Стефана Мироненка про англійську поліцію. Він розповідає йому, що:

  • в Англії і Уельсі  є 43 поліцейські формування, а в Шотландії – 8.
  • Скотланд Ярд – це центральне управління Лондонської кримінальної поліції.
  • кожний поліцейський має певні повноваження.
  • англійські поліцейські не носять зброї, а лише мають при собі кийок.
  • всі поліцейські повинні дотримуватись повного нейтралітету і не мають права вступати  до профспілок та до політичних партій.

 

GRAMMAR  EXERCISES

    Word order

 

Ex. 1. Compose the sentences putting  the wordsinto correct order:

  • armed – with guns – are – most British police officers – not
  • truncheons – carry – they – always – but – CS spray – only sometimes
  • their unarmed colleagues –special armed officers  - any time – may support
  • handle – the police –  a year –  in the UK -  over 6 million emergency calls (999)
  • began to pay – the City of London – in 1663 – watchmen
  • Sir Robert Peel – his force – in 1839 – established – of 3,000 bobbies
  • no women – were – until 1914 – in the police – there
  • the work of men – the first female volunteers – took on – during World War I
  • police officers – until 1908 – worked – seven days a week

 

Ex. 2. Extend sentences as in the example below:

Halloween – pirate costume – find – motel
On a cold morning after Halloween a  fair-haired  seven –year-old  in a torn pirate   costume was found murdered near a shabby motel.
  • two students – launch – attack – school – pepper spray – resistance
  • driver – too fast – accident – tree – ditch – passenger – injured
  • teacher – police college – questions – not answer - because

 

Ex. 3. Open the brackets, put the verbs  into the correct tense forms and translate the sentences:

  • The Home Secretary (to have) responsibility to promote and maintain the efficiency and  effectiveness of police forces.
  • The functions of the Home Secretary (to  include) all training at recruit training  centres and senior officer training.
  • In recent years, pressures  on the police (to increase) enormously.
  • For example, they (to handle) over six million 999 calls a year.
  • The Force Headquarters (to be situated) at Hinchingbrooke Park.
  • It is this authority which (to appoint) the chief constable as well as the assistant chief constables.
  • There (to be) 52 British police authorities altogether.
  • The Home Office (to have) an influence on the police force by appointing H.M. Inspectors of  Constabulary,  by allocating funds and by proposing chief constables.

Ex. 4.  Make the previous sentences (Ex.3) interrogative and  negative.

 

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