Unit 8: police work in the United States and the United kingdom

Exercise 1: Read and translate the following words:

a) bureau, violations, security, inquiries, responsibilities, to handle, justice, convictions, special, division, lawless, extortion, im­penetrable, intimidation, bribery, gambling, narcotics, squads, sufficient, prosecutive, cooperation, vital, supervises, employees, fugitive, efforts, to locate, to apprehend, prisoners, deserters;

b) identification, fingerprints, to maintain, dangerous, through, minor, agency, identifying, various, laboratory, criminological, approximately, scientific, examinations, equipment, agents, technical, specialized, defendants, material, occasions, to sus­pect, to commit, intelligence, threat;

c) communications, valuable, leads, maintenance, major, head­quarters, radio, commercial, facilities, records, personnel, sources, academy, retraining, periodically, although, various, sciences, emphasis, techniques, procedure, preservation, thor­ough, firearms, communities;

d) administrative, responsibilities, expenditures, appropriation, to recruit, to assign, experienced, performance, improvement, practices, jurisdiction, anti-racketeering, energy, robbery, em­bezzlement, bankruptcy, bribery, espionage, fraud, internal, theft.

Exercise 2: Read and translate the following words:

a) Federal Bureau of Investigation; to handle different investiga­tions; internal security; federal criminal violations; civil inquir­ies; the FBI responsibilities; to result in conviction; organized crime; gambling; narcotics; prostitution, extortion; built on fear, intimidation, bribery, and force; highly trained FBI agents; to bring to justice; to collect sufficient evidence; to build a strong prosecuting case; to fight against organized crime; local enforce­ment agencies; fugitive investigations; to locate and apprehend escaped prisoners;

b) Identification Division; the largest collection of fingerprints; a dangerous fugitive wanted; through fingerprint identification; the only means of identifying victims; the greatest criminological laboratory; to make a scientific examination; special agents with specialized training; to solve crimes; to convict defendants; on the basis of material evidence; to prove the innocence of persons; to suspect of having committed crimes; to pose a threat to;

c) valuable leads; the files of law enforcement agencies; to provide contact; Crime Records Division; to study the information on crime; retraining courses; practical skills and techniques; the collection, identification and preservation of physical evidence; to be in danger,

d) major responsibilities; to recruit and assign the personnel; to fulfill the various functions of the FBI; within the FBI jurisdic­tion; bank robbery and embezzlement; bribery and extortion; fraud against the government; internal security; theft of government property.

Exercise 3: Read and translate the following international words:

a) bureau, criminal, civil, interest, agents, to result, special, divi­sion, organized, narcotics, prostitution, to operate, justice, co­-operation, local, deserter,

b) identification, collection, arrest, police, agency, to identify, laboratory, criminological, technical, specialized, training, basis, material;

c) communications, control, teletype, contact, radio, commercial, personnel, information, to train, instruction, courses, periodi­cally, theory, practical, techniques, physical, tactics, extreme, situation, police, nations;

d) administrative, operation, limits, function, competent, inspec­tion, practice, jurisdiction, anti-racketeering, atomic, energy, bankruptcy, espionage.

Text 1: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

a) General Investigation Division

The FBI, formally called the Bureau of Investigation, was created primarily to handle criminal investigations for the Department of Jus­tice.

The FBI responsibilities continue to grow each year.

The FBI handles over 180 different investigations including Federal criminal violations¹, internal security matters and civil inquiries² in which the Government has an interest.

Since 1945, over 95 percent of the cases investigated by its agents which came before the courts have resulted in convictions³.