节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-10-27
难易度:Medium
关键字:urgent, refer, communications, escort, prosecutor, operational, recruit
Hi, everybody.
Thanks for joining us here at Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
This month's LIFE EXPERIENCE feature gives us a first-hand account of what it's
like to work for the biggest crime fighting agency in the world - Interpol.
This account comes to us via former police captain and Interpol agent Charles
Chang.
Now the weapon Interpol uses most to catch bad guys, they don't use guns, they
use knowledge.
By collecting knowledge and spreading it around the world, Interpol helps bring
in the bad guys.
Let's pick up our interview with Charles Chang now at the top of page 47.
Working for Interpol.
What was your role?
I was a police captain from 1982 to 1989.
My job was basically to investigate criminal cases that involved a second
country.
Since criminal cases are usually urgent, I spent a lot of time communicating
with agencies from other countries.
When we received information on a crime, we took the necessary actions.
We made a search or made an arrest or referred the case to the prosecutor's
office.
How was the Interpol office run on a local level?
When I was involved, international policing was the responsibility of the CIB.
There were two sections at Interpol Taipei.
Hi, friends.
Thank you for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we are back in an interview with a very interesting person.
We're talking to Charles Chang about his career in Interpol.
That's right.
Yesterday he was telling us how he got his start in Interpol, and really what
Interpol is all about.
Right. So we know it's an international police force that sets up a bureau in
each country,
has a local force that then can communicate with different countries to help
track crime.
OK.
So yesterday we saw how he got his start there, and he was assigned to Interpol,
and he went to Paris, France, with the director of Interpol Taipei.
That's right.
So he's on his first trip internationally.
That's how he got started.
But let's find out what exactly did he do.
Our next question is, "What was your role?" ... when "role" meaning what?
Well, "role" is your job for a certain situation, so.
What was his job actually like at Interpol?
He says: I was a police captain from 1982 to 1989.
Now yesterday we talked about being a lieutenant.
Ryan, which one is higher, a lieutenant or a captain?
Well, captain is actually higher.
A captain is in charge of the team of people that he is over.
So a captain is a... yesterday we learned that a lieutenant is a lower rank.
So a captain is a higher rank in either the military or civil forces.
Exactly. So he was a captain for seven years.
And he said his job was basically to investigate criminal cases that involved a
second country.
Now he says "investigate." To investigate something means you are researching
it.
You're getting information about it and trying to solve the mystery.
And that is because he passed his detective test, right?
A detective investigates.
Exactly.
And so he's trying to figure out what is happening in these criminal cases.
And a case is simply a crime that happened that you're trying to solve.
So these criminal cases happened a second... in a second country, and so you
need a special person to know how to track those.
That's right.
Now that definition is a definition of a case, specifically a criminal case.
Though you can use the word "case" on its own, meaning just a specific situation
or story.
So these are criminal cases, though.
They are all about crime.
Absolutely. So yeah, you'll often see a lot of agents that are trying to solve
these cases.
So he worked helping these cases when involved a second country, meaning it's
not just in one country but from different places around the world.
That was his job.
Now why was this such an important job?
Well, criminal cases are usually urgent, so he spent a lot of time communicating
with agencies from other countries.
Now there's this word "urgent." This is a great word to learn, friends.
"Urgent" means needing attention right now or very soon, especially before
anything else.
Even if something else is important, urgent goes before important.
Another way of saying that - maybe an "emergency." Emergency, urgent, then
important.
Yeah. Something is important, that means it needs to get done.
If something is urgent, that means it needs to happen right now.
That's right.
If you tell your friends, "I need you to call me urgently," that means right
now.
I don't care what you're doing.
It's so important you need to stop everything and take care of this.
OK. So if these criminals are trying to escape to other countries,
he needed to quickly go communicate with organizations in those countries in
order to try and catch them.
That's right, so.
When he would receive information on a crime, he would take the necessary
actions.
So the information would have come in, he'd share with other agencies and start
working on it.
OK. He's taking action.
That means he's doing what needs to get done, and it's a necessary action; it is
required.
Or very important.
So he would then make a search or make an arrest or would be referred... or
would refer the cases to the prosecutor's office.
So these are different outcomes once he's collected the information.
OK, Kaylah, now I know the word "search" means to look for something, but why
would you make a search?
That's a good question.
OK. So if you make a search, that means you are actually looking on someone for
something that they have, not just looking around.
That's right.
You're looking for something very specific.
You can also make an arrest.
And to arrest someone is to take them to jail.
OK. Now he also then referred the case.
And we know the case is the situation that is happening.
And if you "refer" something, that means you send it to someone else.
So he's sending this case to the prosecutor's office.
And a "prosecutor" is a person who officially accuses someone of committing a
crime.
And they're a legal representative, usually a lawyer.
OK. So his job sounds a little complicated and also a little urgent.
But we ask another question here.
What do we say?
Well, our next question was, "How was the Interpol office run on a local level?"
because we think of it as being international, but it... it's local too.
Yeah, we know that.
So how is it run on a local level, or area?
And Charles here says: When I was involved, international policing was the
responsibility of the CIB.
Oh.
So when he was involved, that means when he was still in it, international
policing - policing mean the verb of police - was responsibility of this
organization.
And he said there were two sections at Taipei... at Interpol Taipei.
So he's stationed in the Taipei bureau office.
Yes, the CIB there in Taipei.
And so he was responsible there, he was working there.
And we're going to see what those two sections are in a minute, night?
That's right.
So we know that there's not just international crime that we're working on,
there's local crime.
And now we see two sections.
This is a very complicated job, takes a lot of thinking.
And we'll talk more about it after we watch the skit.
At Interpol, we have a vision - connecting police for a safer world.
Well, a safer world would be nice.
That's right.
And our mission is preventing and fighting crime.
Ooh. How do you fight crime?
Oh, through enhanced international police cooperation.
Police cooperate to prevent and fight crime?
That's right.
At Interpol, we all work together.
So are there many countries involved in Interpol?
Yes. Interpol has 190 member countries.
That's a lot.
And each country maintains a central national bureau.
Oh. That sounds serious.
These bureaus are staffed by highly-trained law enforcement officials.
What do these people do?
Well, we make sure that police around the world have the tools to do their job.
That's important.
We also help police understand crime trends, analyze information...
Uh huh.
And conduct operations that will arrest criminals.
That sounds exciting.
Yes, it's very exciting.
It's our vision.
Connecting police for a safer world!
Wow! Interpol is exciting after all.
Yeah.
Yes?
Can I ride in your police car?
No.
Can Ilook in your briefcase?