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Title: Lebanon police chief: language barrier could cause danger (Missouri)
Source: KY3.com
URL Source: http://www.ky3.com/features/ozarkstoday/44356277.html
Published: May 5, 2009
Author: Kristin Nelson
Post Date: 2009-05-08 21:58:56 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 92
Comments: 1

The city police department is having a problem communicating with its growing Hispanic population. Officers say the language barrier could lead to a dangerous situation with suspects and victims.

In those situations, officers sometimes have to wait for an interpreter to meet them. Not only is it costly but it’s also time consuming.

Officer Ralph Robinson’s limited Spanish sometimes creates confusion and frustration when he’s on patrol.

“You run into obstacles—them not understanding you, trying to communicate with them, with just basic, average things: license, insurance, things like that,” said Robinson.

Lebanon’s police chief says the city’s Hispanic population is growing. Out of the 16,000 people who live in the city, there are 338 Spanish-speaking families, but those are just the ones that police know about. With three major highways Lebanon gets a lot of traffic.

So the police department is paying for three officers, including Robinson, to learn Spanish to try to eliminate problems and to better serve and protect the city.

Officers will travel to Kansas to learn basic Spanish during the middle of this month and travel to Iowa for advanced Spanish in early June.

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Can America impose upon Mexico to insist that ALL of their cops be taught English so that Americans can understand why they're being robbed by the cops??

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This article doesn't make much sense.

Lebanon is right at the edge of the Ozarks, is not a big city (about 12,000 people(, and is about 95% white. How the reporter came to the conclusion there are 338 Spanish-speaking families is beyond me.

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