Visit any police department website and make a presentation using the tips given below:

• history

• its organization and hierarchy of command

• departments

• personnel

• main operations

• tips for travellers, tourists, buyers, drivers, parents, teenagers etc.

• requirements for the police candidates

• facts that amazed you most of all

To make your presentation successful you are to meet the following requirements:

• prepare a presentation according to the plan given on page ???

• time frame – 4-5 min.

• to conclude, suggest a problem question for your fellow-students to discuss

• use the words and expressions from the unit under consideration.

Recommended resources:

1. www.fbi.gov

2. www.interpol.int

3. www.nyc.gov/nypd

4. content.met.police.uk/home

5. www.lapdonline.org

6. cityofboston.gov/police

Review What You Learned

1. What is the history of the US police?

2. What police system did the US police inherit?

3. What are common features do the British and US police have?

4. Could you explain the American police model?

5. When was the Bureau of Investigation created? What for?

6. What was the first federal police agency created for?

7. What are the types of police agencies?

8. How are they controlled?

Grammar Exercises

Used to + Infinitive

I. Translate the sentences.

1. In Britain there used to be groups of people that dealt with crime instead of police.

2. There used to be a system of watchmen which was replaced by London police.

3. The new police used to provide other services in addition to detection and prevention of crime.

4. Most citizens used to view constables as an infringement to English social and political life.

5. He used to go out a lot when he was younger.

6. Did she use to spend a lot of money when she was single?

7. Your wife used to have long dark hair, didn’t she?

8. People used to have very simple lives those days.

9. My elder brother used to work night shifts at the beginning of his career.

10. Before their baby arrived, John and Susan used to do lots of things.

II. Complete the sentences about your habitual actions in the past.

1. When I was younger I used to …

2. When I studied at school I …

3. When I was five my parents used to …

4. When my brother/sister was a child he/she …

5. Before I entered the university, I …

III. Make negative and interrogative sentences to the given statements:

1. Jack used to be a member of a jury.

2. This gang used to terrorize the entire community.

3. The thought of war used to frighten me when I was young.

4. Her farther used to warn her about not going out late at night.

5. Police used to announce all women in this area to be on their guard.

6. Travel agents used to tell tourists about the dangers of crime at holiday resorts.

7. Muggers used to attack people in this park before a police station was established nearby.

8. Mary and Dick used to break into the houses to steal valuable things so that not to die from poverty.

IV. Rewrite the following sentences with “used to”:

1. In those times, I was always present at the trials.

2. We investigated assaults and batteries while working in the department.

3. Susan witnessed many accidents living in that district.

4. Police officers found a huge of proofs at the scene of crimes and now criminals have become cleverer and changed their manners.

5. She got secret information about new weapons of mass destruction during the war.

V. How is police work different today from what it used to be 50, 100 years ago? Make sentences with used to.