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Bilingual Officers Needed. Virginia

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“When Lt. John Sheridan was called to investigate a domestic assault incident, he arrived on the scene to discover the residents only spoke Spanish.

They couldn’t understand Sheridan’s instructions and no bilingual officers were available to come translate.
Sheridan was forced to call a 24-hour interpreter service, and passed the phone back and forth with the residents. Eventually he was able to obtain enough information to make an arrest, but the confusion left all parties exasperated”

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Posted on: October 6th, 2005
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News
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