A SHARP rise in the number of foreign people arrested in the Westcountry has led to the police bill for interpreters more than doubling in just five years.
MERSEYSIDE police are paying interpretors £253,000 a year to help deal with foreign offenders.
A SHARP rise in the number of foreign people arrested in the Westcountry has led to the police bill for interpreters more than doubling in just five years.
Police cost of translating tops £1million
THAMES VALLEY police fork out more than a million pounds a year to cover the cost of interpreters for foreign offenders, according to figures released by the Conservatives.
POLICE spent a record Pounds 22.1million on interpreters last year as the number of foreign offenders soared, it emerged yesterday.
POLICE spending on interpreters has rocketed by more than 60 per cent to £22million a year, following the recent influx of migrants.
POLICE forces are having to spend more than pounds 22 million a year on hiring interpreters for foreign criminals, new figures show.
POLICE spent a record Pounds 22.1million on interpreters last year as the number of foreign offenders soared, it emerged yesterday.