Nice job if you can get it (part 3)

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
31/10/2008 22:45

Police defend £1m translator bill





Police say translation is an integral part of policing

Thames Valley Police spent over £1m on interpretation and translation over the past year, it has been revealed.

The Conservatives uncovered the figures which show the cost of providing such services has risen by 127% since 2004.

Shadow minister for police reform David Ruffley said the findings suggested "we are importing more foreign criminals" and spending less on frontline police.

But Thames Valley Police said the services were an "integral part of policing" a diverse community.



Interpretation and translation costs are not an optional extra

Thames Valley Police

Thames Valley Police had the third highest bill for interpretation and translation services in Britain, after the Metropolitan and West Midlands forces.

A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said: "Many members of our community speak a wide variety of languages and we have a duty to serve them all.

"Interpretation and tran

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
31/10/2008 22:52

You know I really can't be bothered with this arcane method of restriction of the amount of characters you can post at any one time.

AJ

Groucho



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Message Posted:
01/11/2008 07:35

AJ The best idea is to precis your work...



Anyway, there was between 1820 and 1950 a sort of gentleman's agreement that adequate remuneration for the CEO of a large company who not exceed 20 times average salary.... i.e. take the total wage bill divide by number of employees and multiply by twenty...



Now the fat cats have managed to hoodwink society into thinking they are so important to the success of the company and the economy that as much as 400 times average works salary is "fair"...



Most large companies have a pyramidical structure with the CEO at the top and the lowest paid workers at the bottom.... Ideally analysts tell us there should be no more than seven layers but most companies struggle to achieve anywhere near as flat a sturcture as this and many have more than twenty layers of management below CEO before you get to the lower level workers....



I say knock the top off a pyramid and it stands... remove one of the supporting blocks and it starts to crumble...