Monday 23 October 2017

Interpreter mix-up at Mansfield police station

http://www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/interpreter-mix-up-at-mansfield-police-station-1-8819446

23 October 2017
Interpreter mix-up at Mansfield police station
A Polish man told Mansfield police he couldn’t understand a telephone interpreter when he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in charge of a car, a court heard. Mariusz Tomolowski was found asleep in his car, with the keys in the ignition, by police officers acting on a tip-off from a member of the public, on October 7. No breath test was conducted at the roadside because the machine was faulty, said Ann Barrett, prosecuting, but at the police station Tomolowski claimed he couldn’t understand, or properly hear, an interpreter who was contacted by telephone. “Ultimately he was charged with this offence as police didn’t feel this was a reasonable excuse for failing to provide,” said Miss Barrett. […]

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