{"id":4399,"date":"2014-06-27T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2014-06-27T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:48:19","slug":"west-midlands-police-consulting-on-interpreting-contract-with-capita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4399","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police consulting on interpreting contract with Capita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a couple of my Twitter contacts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-midlands.police.uk\/\">West Midlands Police<\/a> are currently looking at their interpreting contract with Capita Translation &amp; Interpreting, a name not unfamiliar this blog.<\/p>\n<p>The first indication of this came yesterday from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelinguist.co.uk\/\">Agata McCrindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>West Mids Police are reviewing their interpreting contract. Officers completing questionnaires. Sgt I spoke to said no improvement in 2 yrs.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Agata McCrindle (@polish_linguist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polish_linguist\/statuses\/482207196345032704\">June 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was followed later by Geoffrey Buckingham, Chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apciinterpreters.org.uk\/\">Association of Police &amp; Court Interpreters<\/a> (ACPI).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMPolice\">@WMPolice<\/a> dump the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capita_ti\">@Capita_ti<\/a> contract, will a proper service resume? Will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/proterps?src=hash\">#proterps<\/a> trust them?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geoffrey (@Geoffrey_M_B) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geoffrey_M_B\/statuses\/482427102218977280\">June 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a couple of my Twitter contacts, West Midlands Police are currently looking at their interpreting contract with Capita Translation &amp; Interpreting, a name not unfamiliar this blog. The first indication of this came yesterday from Agata McCrindle. West Mids Police are reviewing their interpreting contract. Officers completing questionnaires. Sgt I spoke to said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}