A working day at an american police academy

A typical day at the Academy begins with reveille at 6 a.m. From 6 a.m. until 6.45 a.m. the students attend to personal hygiene, making their beds, dusting, vacuuming, readying squad rooms for inspection. At 6.50 a.m. the students fall in the line for the march to breakfast.

There isn’t much time to eat, and even less time for those who have to work off demerits. Demerits are issued for mistakes made while at the Academy, such as forgetting to fasten a sleeve button or something like that. Thus the students learn to pay attention to the little things.

After breakfast the halls are filled with the sounds of vacuums and brooms. At 7.40 the students stand ready for inspection. Not everyone escapes the morning “demeritless”.

The students come to their classroom at 8 a.m. for several hours of classroom instruction. Lunch is served from 12 until 12.30 o’clock, after that the students fall outside to practice military drill and riot formations.

At 1 p.m. they are back in their classrooms for academic instruction. Some of the classes include subjects such as police professionalism, laws of arrest, criminal investigation, latent fingerprints, police photography, etc. Classroom instruction ends at 4.55 p.m., but the day is far from being over. At 5.05 they have physical training and after that they go out for dinner. The students eat at local restaurants and must be back to the Academy by 7.30 p.m. They have time until 8 p.m. to attend to their personal needs. From 8 to 11 p.m. the students are to be at their desks studying. At 11 p.m. the lights are out and it is the end of another full day.

Task 26. Find the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations; memorize them.

1. подъём

2. личная гигиена

3. подготовить жилые комнаты для проверки

4. построиться

5. отработать взыскания

6. налагать взыскания за что-либо

7. обращать внимание на мелочи

8. без взысканий

9. аудиторные занятия

10. отрабатывать действия по ликвидации массовых беспорядков

11. уголовное расследование

12. скрытые отпечатки пальцев

13. физическая подготовка

14. время для личных дел

Task 27. Answer the questions.

1. What is the time of reveille at the Academy?

2. What do the students do from 6 to 6.45 a.m.?

3. What do the students do before they march to breakfast?

4. Why do some students have little time to eat?

5. What are the demerits issued for?

6. When do the students stand ready for inspection?

7. Does everyone escape the morning inspection “demeritless”?

8. How many hours of classroom instruction do the students have before lunch?

9. When is lunch served?

10. What subjects do the classes include?

11. What other activities do the students have in addition to classroom instruction?

12. Do the students have time to attend to their personal needs?

13. How long do they have for self-study?

14. When are the lights out?

Task 28. Say whether the following statements are true or false; use the conversational formulas given below.

1. Exactly! – Именно так. Совершенно верно.

I think that’s exactly so. – Я думаю, что именно так.

Yes, that’s true. – Да, это верно.

2. No, that’s not quite right. – Нет, это не совсем так.

Of course not. – Конечно, нет.

Far from it. – Совсем не так.

1. The typical day at the Academy begins with reveille at 7.30.

2. Before breakfast the students attend to personal hygiene and ready their squad rooms for inspection.

3. After breakfast the students have to work off demerits.

4. As a rule the students escape the morning inspection “demeritless”.

5. The students come to their classrooms for classroom instruction after lunch.

6. The students have an hour and a half to practise military drill and riot formations.

7. Some of the classes include subjects such as police professionalism, laws of arrest, criminal investigation, latent fingerprints, police photography, etc.

8. The students have their dinner at the Academy.

9. After dinner the students have much time to attend to their personal needs, since they have nothing to do until 11 o’clock.

10. The students have only half an hour for self-study.

11. The lights are out at 11 p.m.

Task 29. Practise the following for pronunciation.

early /'E:li/ Russia /'rASq/

exercise /'eksqsaIz/ procedure /prq'sJGq/

weather /'weDq/ Forensic /fq'rensIk/

permit /pq'mIt/ subject /'sAbGIkt/

logic /'lPGIk/ criminology /"krImI'nPlqGi/

philosophy /fq'lPsqfi/ library /'laIbrqri/

foreign /'fPrqn/ education /"eGV'keISn/

language /'lxNgwIG/ dormitory /'dLmqtri/

Task 30. Read and translate the text.