Ex. 4. Translate into Russian paying attention to the ways of expressing negation in English.

1. A good criminalist never forgets to use a modern crime technique during crime scene search.

2. He knows no people in this locality.

3. The policemen try not to disturb (уничтожить) anything at the crime scene.

4. There is not one method of interrogation.

5. There are no suspects in some cases.

6. Nobody knows the number of that car.

7. We never have practice on Sundays.

8. She does not work at this problem.

9. No transport stops here.

10. We see nothing interesting in this problem.

11. The police have no evidence against this suspect.

12. None of the group want(s) to do that.

13. He could find neither him nor his relatives.

14. Some police cadets fail to take good photographs of the crime scene.

 

II. TEXTS

Warming Up

Ex. 5. You are going to listen to a talk about Interpol. What do you know about this organization?

Ex. 6. Here are some questions you can ask yourself before you listen to the talk. Can you add two or more questions?

1. Where is Interpol based?
2. How many people work for it?
3. What are the basic priorities of Interpol?

 

Ex. 7. Which of these words do you think the speaker will use?

accommodation boxer crime criminal database entertainment financial fingerprints headquarters languages laws literature member police forces priorities slogan staff

 

Ex. 8. Listen to the talk. Does the speaker talk about any of the things in your questions in Exercise 6? What does he say about them?

Ex. 9. Listen to the text again. Did you hear any of the words you chose in Exercise 7?

Ex. 10. Complete the sentences choosing the right word.

1. Interpol now has 184 member countries. And let me introduce/point out that it’s those countries that pay for it!
2. Don’t remember/forget that most Interpol officers stay in their own country.
3. But, and I must draw/ pay your attention to this, we never break the law in any country.
4. One of our tasks/priorities is problems connected with drugs.
5. Another important area/problem is trafficking in human beings.
6. Another main/key priority is financial crime.
7. The most/ least important thing we do is to run a global police communication system.
8. Other/ another important thing we do is to provide training courses for national police forces.

 

Ex. 11. Do you think Interpol is an important or useful organization? Why / Why not?

Text 1

Establishment of Interpol

Vocabulary for reading the text:

1. postpone, v – отложить

postpone smth, till/until/to – отложить что-либо до…

2. particular, adj. – особенный

3. to necessitate smth., v – вызвать необходимость чего-либо

4. Belgian – бельгийский

5. revive, v – оживлять, возрождать

6. attend, v – посещать

7. statute, n – устав

 

Ex. 12. Translate these nouns into Russian and write down the corresponding verbs.

postponement _________ support _____________

attendance ____________ cooperation __________

revival _______________ growth ______________

establishment__________ meeting _____________

approval _____________ change ______________

popularity ____________ title ________________

 

Ex. 13. Underline the suffixes and translate the words into Russian.

to act — activity — activist — active ______________

to initiate — initiative — initiation ________________

to decide — decision — decisive _________________

to influence — influence — influential ____________

to televise — television — televiewer _____________

to centralise — centre — central — centralisation ____

to delegate — delegate — delegation ______________

 

Ex. 14. Read the text and say why it was necessary to establish Interpol.

Establishment of Interpol

 

The first International Police Congress was held in Monaco in 1914 and delegates, who included lawyers, judges, criminologists, academics and civil servants as well as police officers, came from 17 countries. The Congress supported calls for greater transnational police cooperation, centralized international criminal records, etc.

Further progress was postponed until the end of the First World War. The next meeting was held in 1923 when police officers from 20 countries met in Vienna. The result was the establishment of the International Criminal Police Commission with its headquarters in Vienna.

The activities of the Commission grew slowly but in 1938, by which time police organizations in 34 countries had joined, the Commission was taken over by the Nazis.

After the Second World War European crime became a particular problem and necessitated international police cooperation. At the initiative of the Inspector General of the Belgian police a conference to revive the Commission was held in Brussels in 1946. On this meeting, attended by delegates from 19 countries, it was decided to establish a permanent headquarters in Paris.

The organization has been strongly influenced by the French police, and its first four Secretaries General were French police officers. In 1956 the governing body of the Commission, the General Assembly, approved new statutes which changed its name to the International Criminal Police Organization. It very soon became universally known as Interpol and was popularized in the late 1950s.

In September 1990 Russia joined Interpol as its 151^st member.