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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