Sir Robert Peel's NINE PRINCIPLES for the police

(1) The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.

(2) The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.

(3) Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.

(4) The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.

(5) Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.

(6) Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.

(7) Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

(8) Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.

(9) The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. What are the main objectives of the police?

2. What is important to obtain these objectives?

3. What do you know about tything-man system?

4. How did the system of parish constables work?

5. What was the meaning of the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829?

6. What is the most important in the Robert Peel's Principles?

Task 2. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box and retell the whole text:

local government Greater responsibility gain

provides registration headquarters employees

The organization of the police force

There is no national police force in Britain. All police ___ work for one of the forty or so separate forces which each have ____for a particular geographical area. Originally, these were set up locally. Only later did central government ___ some control over them. It inspects them and has influence over senior appointments within them. In return, it ____ about half of the money to run them. The other half comes from ____________

The exception to this system is the Metropolitan Police Force, which polices _____ London. The «Met» is under the direct control of central government. It also performs certain national police functions such as the ______ of all crimes and criminals in England and Wales and the compilation of the missing persons register. New Scotland Yard is the famous building which is the _____of its Criminal Investigation Department (CID).