II. COMPREHENSION. 1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

1. What is the purpose of the justice sector in the UK?

2. How many people are employed in the sector?

3. What forces do the police and law-enforcement agencies in the UK include?

4. What is the oldest police force in the UK?

5. What caused setting up an organized police service in London?

6. What is Robert Peel’s role in the history of the MPS?

7. Why is the MPS known all over the world?

8. What is the MPS responsible for today?

9. When was SOCA created?

10. What are SOCA’s main functions?

5. Find in the text words and expressions which mean:

1. the job of making sure that the law is obeyed;

2. to try to deal with a difficult problem;

3. an official attempt to find out the truth about or the causes of something such as a crime, accident, or scientific problem;

4. when a charge is made against someone for a crime, or when someone is judged for a crime in a court of law;

5. a duty to be in charge of someone or something, so that you make decisions and can be blamed if something bad happens;

6. a situation in which rules are obeyed and authority is respected;

7. the use of violence such as bombing, shooting, or kidnapping to obtain political demands such as making a government do something.

III. VOCABULARY STUDY