POLICE POWERS. STOP AND SEARCH
A police officer in England and Wales has the power to stop and search people and vehicles if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he or she will find stolen goods, offensive weapons or implements that could be used for theft, burglary or other offences. The officer must, however, state and record the grounds for taking this action and what, if anything, was found.
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 enables a senior police officer to authorise uninformed officers to stop and search people or vehicles for offensive weapons, dangerous implements where he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that serious incidents of violence may take place. The officer must specify the time-scale and area in which the powers are to be exercised.
Match the words on the left with their meanings on the right.
1) задержание и досмотр a) investigation of crimes
2) процессуальный кодекс b) reasonable grounds
3) расследование преступлений c) criteria for detention
4) права граждан d)to be liable to disciplinary proceedings
6) судебная повестка e) stop and search
7) причинение ущерба f) code of practice
8) право не отвечать на вопросы g) rights of citizens
9) основания для задержания i) injury
10) расширенные полномочия j) warrant
11) веские доказательства k) re-offend
12) полицейский участок l) extended police powers
13) иметь веские основания m) reasonable proofs
14) совершать повторные правонарушения n) right to silence
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15) подлежать дисциплинарному взысканию o) police station
9. Answer the following questions.
1. In what cases can a police officer stop and search the suspect?
2. What are the provisions of 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order act?
3. What must the police officer specify?
10 . Translate the sentences into English.
1. Полицейский офицер имеет полномочия на задержание и обыск людей и транспортных средств, если существуют веские основания подозревать, что он обнаружит украденные предметы, орудия преступления или иструменты, которые можно использовать для совершения кражи, ограбления или другого преступления 2. Полицейский офицер должен зарегистрироать всё, что было обнаружено при обыске.
Write down the sentences. Point out tense and form of the detatched verbs.
1. A fresh controversy was looming yesterday over the care of juveniles in custody when a 15-year-old boy died after being found unconscious in a police cell.
2. A juvenile should not be held in a cell before he is interviewed.
3. Caught by a store detective with a bottle of hair conditioner, Jane found herself in a van being driven to the police station.
4. She was sentenced to a fine of $100 and was given a two-week suspended sentence.
5. Last several years Mrs Bronx withdrew from public life and was living by herself.
6. The police service is taking effective action to improve performance and standards
Make the following sentences interrogative and negative.
1. A policeman was investigating the disappearence of some property from a hotel.
2. The next morning he appeared in court before the magistrate.
3. Some police officers are walking in pairs down the streets, others are driving specially marked police cars.
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4. The constable is arresting and guarding criminals.
5. The burglar was standing in the living-room and holding some valuables.
6. Prison is probably not deterring many people from crime.
7. Crime in Holland is certainly climbing much more slowly than in other countries.
VARIANT III
Translate the text in the written form.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Capital punishment is a legal infliction of the death penalty; in modern law, corporal punishment in its most severe form. The usual alternative to the death penalty is long-term or life imprisonment.
The abolition of capital punishment in England in November 1965 was welcomed by most people with humane and progressive ideas. To them it seemed a departure from feudalism, from the cruel pre-Christian spirit of revenge: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Many of these people think differently now. Since the abolition of capital punishment crime – and especially murder – has been on increase throughout Britain. Today, therefore, public opinion in Britain has changed. People who before, also in Parliament, stated that capital punishment was not a deterrent to murder – for there have always been murders in all countries with or without the law of execution – now feel that killing the assassin is the lesser of two evils. Capital punishment, they think, may not be the ideal answer, but it is better than nothing, especially when, as in England, a sentence of life imprisonment only lasts eight or nine years.
The fundamental questions raised by the death penalty are whether it is an effective deterrent to violent crime, and whether it is more effective than the alternative of long-term imprisonment.
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