These nouns were further classified according to Hoffmann's structural matrix into simplexes, derivations, compounds and word groups. According to Fletcher the compounds were further devided into determinatives and copulatives, the derivations into explicit and implicit ones. Police officers had to fill a questionnaire and answered some questions about learning of the foreign languages, working experiences, dealings with foreigners and possibilities of improving their knowledge of foreign language. At the police station Piran 69 per cent of all employed police officers answer the questionnaire, at the police station Ljubljana-Center 63 per cent, and at police station Bled 76 per cent. We interviewed 106 police officers altogether.
Police officers have working contacts with foreigners from all over the world.
Most frequent contacts are with citizens from former Yugoslavia, then with foreigners from Western Europe and on third place the foreigners from Eastern Europe. The majority of the interviewed police officers thinks, that ignorance or bad knowledge of a foreign language quite often influences the duration of the dealing. After their opinion a police dealing is sometimes given up in the case of minor offence and often left out in the case of bad knowledge of a foreign language. According to our pattern 90 per cent of interviewed police officers finished learning a foreign language in the secondary school. The average time after finishing the school is 6 years and by 51 per cent of interviewed 4 years.