The Police Officers’ Declaration

1 The Police Officers Declaration I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the office , without favour or affection, malice or will will; and that I will,to the best of my power cause the peace to be kept and preserved, and prevent all offences against the persons and properties of Her Majesty s subjects and that while I continue to hold the said office I will, to the best of my skill and knowledge, discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to the law. THE SCENE OF THE CRIME 1. Mr Peters was dead. 2. The car in the garage had been stolen. 3. Someone had broken into the garage. 4. The robber got away through the park. 5. Mr Peters was asleep when he saw the robber. 6. The robber was trying to steal the car. 7. Mr Peters told the Police what the attacker was wearing. 8. Mr Peters was mending his car when he was attacked. 9. The robber was wearing a red woollen pullover.

2 10. The robber cut his hand when he broke into the garage. 11. The robber could not get Mr Peters car to start. 12. The robber dropped his gloves next to the bunch of keys. 13. Mr Peters was much stronger than the robber. 14. Mr Peters jumped on the robber before the robber opened the garage. 15. The robber got into the garage but he could not get into the car. What to do. Look at the picture. What has happened? Choose your answers from these four: Definitely true (DT) Probably true (PT) Definitely false (DF) Probably false (PF) Write your answers like this: visiting the scene of the crime, you return to Police Headquarters. Youare now in charge of the investigation. The first thing you must do is write a report for Head of CID. You have already studied the clues at the scene of the crime. What you must do now is write a short account tellingwhat you think happened. You already have a lot of clues about what the man (or woman) who killed Mr Peters was wearing.

3 You know what he or she might have been doing by the garage so on. Begin at the beginning-and write your account of what happened. You've just finished your report and are sitting down with a cup ot tea, when the phone rings. It's the Head of CID himself. Mean Magnus McMuscle has escaped from was seen this afternoon running through the parknear where Mr Peters had run down to the file room and pull out his file. The Scene of the Crime Evenin all (Mastermind detective of the first ?.. The Report IN ROUGH FIRST. IN ROUGH FIRST. Name: _____ Age: Address: 1) Born in Longon in 1960 and attended local primary & secondary school in Harringey Left school at 16 and did 2 years apprecticeship with a local builders. Was dismessed for theft After 2 years. There followed a period of 4 yrars unemployment. Married in 1980 Has two children. 2) 1974 1 monthe in Borstal for joyriding 1978 Fined 1,000 for theft at work 1982 Fraud 2 years in prison Brief Life Story CRIMINAL RECORD 1 2 FRONT SIDEi It must be written on an official Eye-Witness Report Form ii iii iv The report must be dated and signed by yourself and Mrs Digby.

4 CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS 3 Eye-Witness Report Mrs Florence Digby 7, Park Avenue, Newtown, NI4 3AL 5:30 Woken by like someone scraping metal 5:31 Downstairs light goes on at , Park Avenue 5:32 to 5:35 Hears Voice Hey! What are you doing? Sees Mr P walk outside Dark outsideSound of scuttling / shouting Heavy noise like a sandbag hitting the floor Moment s Silence. Tearing noise and swearing Noise of running Eye-witness report Case: Murder of Mr Peters Eye-witness: Mrs Digby Address: _____ _____ _____ Report_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Date_____ Signed_____ Tick tock Tick Use your notes to make up an official Eye Witness Report THE REPORTMUSTBE WRITTEN AS IF MRS DIGBY WAS SPEAKING: USE PROPER SENTENCES AND CORRECT PUNCTUATION (It may be needed in !!) I was woken at half past five this morning by a funny noise. It seemed to come from Mr Peter s garage. It sounded Still no time for your cup of Florence Digby insists on seeing you-she says she SAW THE MURDER!

5 The sleepy town of Newtown is in grip of murder-mania. Citizens there are rushing in a bid to do their bit to track down the murdererin their IN ROUGH FIRST At the Police station, they are busy producing WANTED posters. A WANTED!!! Name:_____ Crime:_____ Description_____ _____ _____ Last seen:_____ _____ _____ Wearing: _____ _____ HM GOV Health Warning_____ B E D FORENSIC SHEET _ This footprint_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ These fingerprints _____ _ _____ This blood_____ _____ _____ _ In the lab, forensic scientists are gathering details of evidence. Next to each exhibit they write down where it might have come from. C DOCTOR S REPORT Name:.. Brief Medical .. Probable Cause and Time of .. Meanwhile, at the hospital the doctor who examined the victim is giving his or her expert opinion on the Consider the lilies of the field and the vicar of St Mildred's is busy .. thinking up a sermon for the memorial (And you know, life's like ) D While all this is going on, the lawyers Hue, Grabbit and Runne are dusting down Peter's will.

6 WILL I, Mr Peters, being of sound mind and body do leave my worldly goods to the following people. I leave ..to Mrs Florence Digby. I .. his person Five pounds fifty in change, exactly, A library card on its date of expiry A postcard, stamped, Unwritten, but franked, A pocket-size diary slashed with a pencil From March twenty-fourth to thefirst of April. A brace of keys for a mortise lock, An analogue watch, self-winding, stopped. A final demand In his own hand, A rolled-up note of explanation Planted there like a spray carnation But beheaded, in his fist. A shopping list. A giveawayphotograph stashed in his wallet, A keepsake banked in the heart of a locket. No gold or silver, But crowning one finger A ring of white unweathered skin. That was everything. Simon ArmitageCraig and Bentley case Newspaper Asignment 1. Read through the prosecution s opening statement. What is the purpose of this piece of writing? What is the intended audience?

7 Why does it not have to be chronological? Preparing to write your newspaper coverage of the story Using the work you have done already, list all the reasons you can why a guilty verdict might be seen as unfair. Read through the comments from Derek Bentley s father. Add important ones to your list. Your first task is to work out the order of events of that night. Construct a plan or flowchart to show this. It should only include facts, not opinions. Your next task is to find as many examples of opinion in the text as you can. What are opinions doing in this sort of writing? Now state the opposite opinion to the examples you have found. Your job is now to write a front page story on this case. This story must attempt to persuade thousands of readers that Derek Bentley should not be hanged for murder. Use the Newspaper guide sheet to structure your BENTLEY CASE Capital Punishment was abolished in 1957. The Case for the Prosecution: At in December 1952, Lord Goddard took his place in the Judge s chair.

8 Craig and Bentley both pleaded not guilty and after the jury was sworn in Christmas Humphreys, the prosecution counsel, rose to make the opening speech of the case for the prosecution: Before the Police arrived, Craig and Bentley had climbed the gate to the premises and were already on the roof which stood twenty-two feet high. It was flat and had four roof lights, the head of a lift shaft and an emergency door opening on to it. The Police car was quickly on the spot. Out of it ran Police Constables 5 Fairfax, Harrison, and McDonald. They were soon over the gate and looking around for access to the roof. There was a moon, but it was hidden behind cloud most of the time. The Police , therefore, used flash-lamps. A beam of light far below warned Craig of what was happening. He is reported to have said, 10 Coppers! and led Bentley into hiding behind the life shaft. Fairfax, leader of the Police and the most agile physically, climbed up a drain-pipe and got on to the roof.

9 He saw Craig and Bentley and walked towards them. I am a Police officer, he said. Come out from behind the stack. 15 Craig answered: If you want us,.. well come and get us! All right, said Fairfax, leaping forward. He grabbed Bentley by the arm. With Bentley in custody he turned and pursued Craig round the stack but Bentley got away and shouted an 20 observation, heard by three separate officers in the darkness by three separate places, which may be, in your view the most important that Bentley made that night. Let him have it Chris .. The most immediate reply to that comment by Bentley was a loud 25 report, and Fairfax was hit on the shoulder with what turned out to be a bullet from the gun which Craig held. That observation was not only heard by Constable Fairfax grappling with two men in the dark on theroof, but by another officer, McDonald who was at that moment climbing up the same drain-pipe, and by another officer who had arrived from an 30 entirely different direction, All three heard it, and all three heard the shot which followed immediately upon it.

10 That statement was a deliberate incitement to Craig to murder Constable Fairfax. It was spoken to a man whom he, Bentley, clearly knew had a gun. That shot began a fight in the course of which 35 Miles was killed that incitement covered the whole of the shooting thereafter even thought at the time of the actual shot which killed Miles, Bentley was in custody and under arrest. Fairfax was not seriously wounded. The bullet glanced across his shoulder and only cut the skin. 40 Then Craig fired again. Fairfax dragged Bentley and worked him round to the doorway, where both of them could get cover from the shooting which was still coming from the direction of the lift. Bentley said to Fairfax, He ll shoot you. Nevertheless, they reached the staircase head in safety, and both 45 took cover behind it. So Fairfax has been alone upon the roof with two men, one of whom he now holds and the other is shooting at them but just about that moment McDonald arrives up the drainpipe.