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A GLOBAL MOVEMENT

Police departments in the United States and abroad are working to increase the number of bilingual officers.

New Orleans police in February announced their first push to hire bilingual officers in an attempt to build better community relations. The first emphasis will be on officers who speak Spanish. The department will eventually hire officers who speak other languages, such as Vietnamese.

Police in Buffalo, New York, will soon carry cards with examples of different languages. Residents who don’t speak English can look at the cards and identify their native language. The police department can then call in the appropriate interpreter.

The Metropolitan Police in London launched a program last year to hire officers who speak Yoruba, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, Italian, German, Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Sinhala and Bengali. Those languages are among an estimated 300 spoken in the United Kingdom’s capitol.