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. […]
Read more here: http://tompride.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/meet-als-the-new-g4s-or-how-delboy-hoodwinked-ministers-out-of-300m/
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