Friday 24 August 2012

Meet ALS – the new G4S (or how Delboy hoodwinked ministers out of £300m)


24 August 2012

Meet ALS – the new G4S (or how Delboy hoodwinked ministers out of £300m)
[…] Essential to these needs are legal interpreters. These are not just people who can speak another language well enough to interpret simultaneously* but are experts on legal and crime fighting terminology in both languages – and because international crime never sleeps they must be available to the police and the courts 24 hours a day – sometimes at extremely short notice. In short they are professionals who are as essential to the successful running of our legal, court and crime fighting system as police, lawyers and judges.
Last year, in a bid to save money, ministers gave a £300 million contract for providing all legal interpreters to courts and police to one company - Applied Language Solutions (ALS), which promised to cut the annual translation bill by a third. […]


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