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SPEAKING

Practise using the Gerund in speech. Role-play the following dialogue “A Big Tease” (Большой любитель дразнить):

A Big Tease

John: Who’s been eating my sandwiches? Who keeps drinking my cola?

George: I admit eating one of your sandwiches, but I deny having touched your precious cola.

John: I don’t remember giving you permission. I don’t mind your having some if you ask me first, but I detest scrounging. I regret having to say this, but I have to stop letting you use my flat if you go on behaving in the same way. And have you finished reading my private mail? It’s dishonorable! I could never fancy your doing a thing like that.

George: But I can’t help seeing what’s in your letters if you leave them open.

John: I know you enjoy minding other people’s business as much as you dislike minding your own. You are a lazy character, aren’t you? You love doing nothing.

George: Well, I admit being lazy. Actually I hate working. I prefer eating and sleeping.

John: I appreciate your making an honest confession. However, I think of taking drastic steps.

George: What are you going to do?

John: I intend throwing you out.

George: But I like living here.

John: I know you do, but you must start looking for a new place.

George: I’ve no intention of going away. I’m quite comfortable content with my living here.

John: I insist on your leaving this afternoon.

George: It’s no use shouting. There’s no chance of my leaving today.

John: I’m tired of arguing and I don’t feel like hearing any more. What about calling the police to move you on? Out you go!

George: Oh, calm down, John! I was only joking. I’ve no intention of staying. I’m thinking of buying the house across the street. In any case I’ll never get tired of teasing you.

John: You are the biggest tease I’ve ever met.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

New words:

to combat crime	бороться с преступностью
to establish	устанавливать
to approve	одобрять
to disrupt	прервать, разрывать
to revive the idea	возродить идею
to adopt	принять
aim	цель
to ensure	обеспечить
to promote	содействовать
to contribute	способствовать, внести вклад
to supress	подавлять
warrant	ордер на арест
to come into being	осуществиться

Read and translate the following text:

Interpol

Interpol became necessary mainly because of the need both for a united form for the combating of international crime and for exchange of ideas and methods between the police forces of the world.

In 1914, for the first time, a number of police officials, magistrates and justice met to establish the basis of international police cooperation. However, several months later, the First World War broke out.

During the second criminal police congress, in Vienna in 1923, the President of Police of that city once again voiced the idea of establishing international police cooperation. A scheme was approved by 130 delegates and an International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), with headquarters in Vienna came into being. It worked satisfactorily until the beginning of the Second World War.

In 1946, the old members of the ICPC which had been disrupted by the war, met in Brussels to revive the idea of international police co-operation.

Meeting again in Vienna, in 1956, by which time there were 55 member countries, the organization decided to adopt a new constitution.

It comprises 50 articles. Under it the International Criminal Police Commission was renamed the “International Criminal Police Organization” – Interpol.

The general aims of Interpol are defined in article 2 of the Constitution: to ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance within the limits of the laws existing in the different countries and in the spirit of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, to establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the suppression of ordinary law crimes.

The combating of international crime is divided into three distinct but complementary activities: the exchange of police information; the identification of wanted or suspected individuals; the arrest of those who are wanted on a warrant issued by the judicial authorities.

Today, in terms of membership, Interpol is one of the largest international organizations.

The organization is administered through the General Assembly and the Executive Committee. The General Assembly is a sort of parliament which meets once each year. It lays down Organization’s general policy, discusses crime trends, and decides on methods of co-operation. It elects the President and the Secretary General. It also elects the 13 members of the Executive Committee which is responsible for preparing the General Assembly Sessions and for advising and guiding the Secretary General.

The permanent structures for carrying on day-to-day co-operation are provided in the member countries by the bodies known as the National Central Bureaus and at international level by the General Secretariat.

The National General Bureaus are, in fact, police departments appointed by the governments in their countries to act as the Organization’s permanent correspondents and responsible to those Governments. They are responsible for centralizing all requests from their own countries’ different police departments or forces for information or action in other countries, they attempt to ensure that such requests are answered, and they channel similar requests from other countries to the appropriate departments on their own territories.

Crowning this network of National Bureaus is the International General Secretariat. It has three basic tasks: it is responsible for day-to-day running of the Organization, for preparation of various international meetings and for development of telecommunication network; it has to centralize information about crime and international criminals, prepare analyses of crime patterns and when necessary circulate information and coordinate collective action; lastly it is responsible for carrying out research on matters which are left to be of interest to the police.

Cooperation may also take the form of direct personal contacts between investigators from different countries working together to solve particular difficult cases.

UNIT 4 LEGAL PROFESSION

LESSON 13

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