YORKSHIRE POLICE SPEND 2 MILLION ON TRANSLATORS

According to the Yorkshire post , the Yorkshire Police spent two million pounds on translators to help with comunication between them and East european people...The language most often required being Russian and Polish....I think its good that they are making the effort to cope with those that visit the UK....On the other hand , when i went to the Police in Poland with a problem they were not a bit interested , untill i returned with a friend who spoke Polish....I guess there are not enough Brits here in Poland for them to need to learn English , but i have a feeling there might be a lot of Ukrainian , and Russian workers headed for Poland....Do they have access to translators in the Polish police..????

ill be nice ........

I dont think Polish officers would have a bigger problem communicating with russians or ukrainians.

english is a different issue tho

Great,thats 2 million less on speed camera's :)
no ,wait,that means more speed camera's to make up the money...!!!:(. crikey....
B ooger off back to poland you lot,i cant afford another fine :):)

i into to the old bill here you want to know what he said

you are in poland you must speak Polish !

yup, you cant expect everybody to know your language wherever you go. Brtitish tend to rely on that a lot...

Of course...we are British for gods sake....Its about time the whole world was forced to learn English , so that us Brits don,t have to learn any of these strange languages,,,AND , its also time we made all these people who drive on the WRONG side of the road do it the same way as the British....We are British , so our way must be the right way.....

typical Brit. ha ha.

I hope you realised i was winding people up just a little bit....Actually i live in Poland , and love it here...Its not like the UK of course , and i kinda hope it never gets like the UK....

What a dreadful waste of good taxpayers money. It is not so much a fact that they are making an effort as you put it, rather they are leagaly obliged to investigate all reported crime.

yes i have. thats what 'ha ha' was for.

Yeah........ and how much of that 2 million was actually spent on translators? As opposed to how much was spent on filling in forms asking for translators???????????????

And yeah, I get it's a joke...... but.... you get, also, how Police budgets work!

They are also spending a bit of money on leaflets wriiten in Polish to explain UK driving laws , and road signs etc....Seems there are a lot of accidents involving newly arrived Poles....I know a Latvian friend of mine had four accidents in month when she first came to Leeds , mind you , she was a nutter.....

Wheres yorkshire at??

Some say its the biggest desert in England.......

this is how much david beckham spends on cotton buds

And half what my mate Rafal spends on vodka.....

We bought our house from an engineer who moved to Northampton after retirement. Near to where he lives is a long road which runs along the side of a canal bank. When he visited us about two years ago, he told us how three Lithuanians in a car drove in to the water and drowned.


Employing 'outside people' in professional capacities can indeed be very expensive, twenty to twenty five pounds an hour.

Be sure to complain about tranlations made in Punjabi, Chinese, Arab and other languages as well.

I wholeheatedly agree.

Others would say it is the green and pleasant heart of England. Not full of Ya Ya southern buffty types and mockney geezers and all manner of other wonderfull english creations. The home of the industrial revoloution and the county with more great estates and country palaces than any other in England or the UK.The pulse of the UK.Home of the Brontes,Jeremy Clarckson,the calender girls,whippets,flat caps and highly competitive pigeon races........

Some say that was Shropshire.....

We used to live in a paoer bag , in a sceptic tank , we used to have to get up half an hour before we went to bed , lick t road clean with tongue......

You were lucky.... LOL

full of moaning foreigners demanding translators :)


wash your mouth out Mr Pie

well thats me out of this discussion....One of the pf eight just joined it...

It would be more disturbing if all that money was spent on Rutland.

Perhaps i should have pointed out in my first posting , that they don,t need all these Polish translators because they are constantly arresting Polish criminals , its just that with the large number of Poles in the UK , the witnesses to many crimes are often unable to speak English....

Youve seen Look North interviews then with the local bobbies trying to string a sentance together.....oh,you mean forgiegn witnessess,not the,oh,i get it....

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred....strong in arm , and thick in head.....as the saying goes....