London Police Spend £10.6 Million on Translation
Posted by Mike on November 23, 2009 under Translation News | 
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As immigration continues to increase throughout Europe–particularly in Britain–many institutions are finding themselves having to deal with a sudden influx of foreign-speakers in ways they’d never imagined before. In the United Kingdom alone, a third of all residents were born outside the British Isles.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service, for instance, has spent approximately £10.6 million (that’s nearly $17.6 million) on translation, setting a new record.
The London Daily News reports with the full figures, and cites an interesting list of languages that the Metropolitan Police have had to support over the past year, including…
