14 January 2014
Police in Derbyshire spend
almost £1 million on interpreters
[…] Derbyshire police uses an agency called Cintra, which is employed by
all the forces in the East Midlands, and which charges an hourly rate for its
services. The rate is set and costs the same for whatever language its staff
interpret on, a police spokesman said.
Since April 1, £106,695.30 has been paid to the agency, with the most
spent on translating Polish - at £21,608.40. Romanian comes in second so far
this year at £12,360.15 and Urdu is in third place at £12,045.75.
Over the past five years more than £170,000 has been spent on
interpreting Polish suspects and witnesses, the highest amount for one
language. Others that come high in the list over the past five years are
Russian and Slovakian. […]
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