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Reading comprehension (10 marks)

Read the following text and do the exercises answer the questions that follow:
In the UK, the custody officer has to go through a process when he or she
takes someone into custody. Hence, when this officer books-in a person who has
recently been arrested, he has to check certain things. The first question he needs to
consider is: has the person been lawfully arrested? Then he needs to decide if it is
legal and necessary to detain the person at the police station. If the officer decides
that it is, then that person can be held in a cell for up to 24 hours- so it is a big
responsibility. The officer then has to consider if the person is fit to be detained, so he
carries out a risk assessment to decide the level of risk each person presents. The
officer has to consider the arrested persons physical and mental health, if the person
is likely to self harm, if the person is a suicide risk and if the person presents a risk to
others. To help him in this process, where he feels it is necessary, the officer can call
on the police doctors and the police nurses, and other health workers who specialize
in dealing with people in police custody. For example, if the detainee usually takes
200 worth of heroin everyday they will need o see the drug referral worker.
The officers final decision in the booking-in process whether or not a detainee
is fit for his/her rights. A detainee has three main rights- the right to see a solicitor, the
right to tell somebody that he / she is in custody, and the right to read a rule book
called The Code of Practice which tell him / her how he / she should be treated
when he / she is in custody. The officer can decide to delay these rights if a person in
incapable of understanding, for example if the person is drunk, violent, or likely to
become violent (if the person is violent the officer has to get him / her in a cell as
quickly and safely as possible); or if a person is in urgent need of medical attention,
such as if he / she needs to o to hospital. The officer has to write down all of his
decisions and every event relating to a detained person, from giving the person a cup
of water to refusing bail. This means that the officer does a lot of writing everyday.
Exercise 1: Answer the following question (4 marks)
1- Give a title to the text.
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2- Why does the officer have to assess risk?
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3- What role do the health workers have?
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4- What leads the officer to postpone telling the detainee his rights?
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Exercise 2: Decide whether the following statements are true or false: (4 marks)
1) Any officer can detain a person.
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2) The detainee can remain in custody for more than 24 hours.

3) It is not the officer who decides on the persons fitness to be detained.
4) The officer is under the obligation to keep a written record of all that he does.
Exercise 3: Find a word in the text which means exactly as the word given (2
marks)
1) venture (paragraph1)

2) confinement (paragraph 1)

3) Put off (paragraph 2)

4) Inscribe (paragraph 2)

PART III/Language (10 marks)

Vocabulary (5 marks):
Exercise 1: Complete the word-building table below (2 marks)
1
To burgle
. burglary
2
To harass
harasser
..
3
To rape
rape
4
. protester
protest
Exercise 2: Complete the following sentences with words from the box. Not all the
words are to be used (2 marks):

Stoned
abuse

customs

cargo

supplier

custody

1- The suspect was1 . when the police arrested

him.
2- The lorrys suspect 2. was carefully
inspected by the 3. officer.
3- Their 4. is in police custody now.
Exercise 3: Supply the correct preposition (1 mark):
1- The victim was asked to calm 1. and tell
what happened to him.
2- It was2 . to the interviewing custody officer
to decide what to write 3.
3- The process they have to go 4. Is for their
own good.

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Grammar (5marks) :
Exercise 1: Put the verbs between parentheses in the correct tense: (3 marks)
When police officer Benthami 1. (to join)
his shift at 8 p.m. yesterday, he did not think that it
2
. (to be) as busy as it did. First, they had to
respond to an emergency call about a car accident. The accident
3
.(to involve)two cars. One of the cars
4
.(to speed) well above the authorized speed when
the accident happened. Before the end of his shift, he
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. (to go) to the citys hospital to get the news of
the injured passengers However, one could say that Officer Benthami
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. (to see) worse shifts than this one.
Exercise 1: Complete the sentences using the adjectives given in the appropriate
comparison form of the adjectives given
1- Marijuana is not 1. (harmful) of all the
drugs.
2- The police in many countries is 2. (good)
institutional tool against street crimes.
3-

. (bad) thing that can happen to you

when you drive above the speed limit is losing your freedom.

4- Legislation on drugs in the Netherland is not

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. (tough) in England.
PART IV: Writing: (10 marks):
Think of road-related or drug-related incident you know of and write a
short report about it. Think of - the time and the location of the incident
- What was the incident
-

What did you see

Etc.

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