Read the text and fill the gaps A-F with parts of the sentences 1-7
In fighting organized crime, the police often make use of undercover police
officers who A______ . The life of these undercover police officers is a lonely
and dangerous one.
Sometimes, things’can go badly wrong. In one case, the police attempted to trap a gang of drug dealers working in Spain. For five years, undercover
police officers helped the drug dealers launder about $15 million through a false
company. In this way, the police were able to В_______ . However, when the
police arrested the gang members and the case came to court, the British judge
said that the police had acted illegally and С_______ . The cost of this failed
police operation was $25 million.
Undercover police officers face terrible danger. One former undercover policeman, Liam Thomas, told the Guardian newspaper that after 12 years in the job he was «like a broken biscuit». The pressure of hiding his real identity
and working with violent criminals D_______ . Undercover police officers are
supposed E______ to see that they are not suffering. But Mark Kennedy,
an agent who worked under cover in environmental activist groups, says that these psychological checks aren’t as frequent as they should be.
Sometimes agents work undercover in the same group for too long. Then there is a serious risk that F______, as happened in Kennedy’s case.
- have infiltrated the gang
- get more information about the gang
- stay a long time in a group
- caused him to suffer a mental breakdown
- to have frequent psychological checks
- their true identity will be discovered
- the criminals went free
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