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Interpreters meet Police

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:52:35 GMT

ITI Office 18 July 2008 Meeting between interpreters and Cambridgeshire Constabulary Thursday 17th. July 2008 The meeting was chaired by Superintendent Julian Eales, Head of Case & Custody. He began by apologizing and stated that Cambridgeshire Police had handled the issue of rates badly and not consulted interpreters. Cambridgeshire Police, he stressed on several occasions, is committed to maintaining communication with the interpreting profession. Also present was the Head of the Department of Criminal Justice, Anthea Dodson. Chief Inspector Kate Scott, Force Custody Manager, plus Katrina Mayfield, Interpreting and Translation Services Manager. Police interpreters were represented by Geoffrey Buckingham APCI Chairman, Alan Thompson Secretary APCI, Yilmaz Duzen ITI Council, Guillermo Makin for the ITB of the GMB, plus a small number of interpreters working with Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The interpreters present successfully conveyed the costs of operating as an interpreter (exams, CRB payment, registration fees, membership subscriptions, CPD and training, and Professional Indemnity Insurance. The police representatives recognised the need for interpreters to be remunerated properly and that such remuneration would benefit the CJS. Cambridgeshire Constabulary has accepted to apply fully the terms and conditions of pay applied by the Metropolitan Police. This means even higher pay than implied when they withdrew the reductions introduced in June. Superintendent Eales also stated that it was CC policy to continue consultations with interpreters and agreed to quarterly meetings to discuss issues connected with the work of police interpreters. Both he and Anthea Dodson volunteered to propose that many of the initiatives discussed in these meetings should be adopted by ACPO and other police forces. Other issues on the agenda included security vetting that will be upgraded in batches of 20 interpreters as from August beginning with the most used languages. Custody issues and a complaints procedure were also discussed.

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NOTHING WORKS LIKE A HUMAN

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:46:59 GMT

ITI - News - 7th November 2006 Military looks for high-tech translators BUT SO FAR NOTHING WORKS LIKE A HUMAN By Renae Merle Washington Post WASHINGTON - For science-fiction buffs, it's probably a common-sense solution. Two months after arriving in Iraq, a second lieutenant with the 16th Military Police Brigade was handed the Phraselator, a handheld device that promised to digest his English phrases and produce a prerecorded Arabic translation with an Iraqi accent. But after a brief test last year, the soldier gave up the gadget, deciding that, while helpful in some instances, it wasn't useful to his unit, which conducted raids and provided convoy security. He had even tried to teach himself Arabic using the device but decided that it was no match for the complex language. Even such simple phrases as ``What is your name?'' are spoken differently in Fallujah than in Baghdad, he found. ``This may have been the reason why many of the Iraqis . . . did not appear to understand the Arabic phrases and words'' stored in the device, according to a report prepared for the Army. An Annapolis, Md., firm, VoxTec International, developed the device and said it has steadily made improvements. But the goal of having a machine replace a human interpreter remains elusive, and the military is mounting a multimillion-dollar campaign to find a more capable successor, one that can translate both sides of a conversation, from English to Arabic and vice versa. ``What people would really like is that `Star Trek' universal communicator, but it doesn't exist yet,'' said Lynne McCann, former chief of the Army Foreign Language Proponency Office. ``That would solve everything.'' The stakes are high for the military, which suffers from such a shortage of interpreters that it has had to rely increasingly on contractors -- 6,500 in Iraq and 1,500 in Afghanistan. It can be a dangerous job. Of the 648 contractors killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, 153 worked for the division of L-3 Communications that holds the linguist contract, according to Labor Department figures.

NEW - RSS Information Service

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:00:00 GMT

ITI offers RSS Information feed In our 21st birthday year we take another technical leap forward and offer our members the facilities provided by an RSS Newsfeed. We believe that ITI are the first international linguist association worldwide to implement this exciting new feature. What does RSS mean to you? Rather than visit the ITI website to search for constantly changing information such as Jobs, Events, News etc you can now attach this information to an RSS Newsfeed and have it delivered direct to your desk. Of course you will still need to visit the website for general information, member offers and the Directory. For more information on what an RSS feed is and the feeds currently available visit the ITI website and click on the orange RSS icon. The website also carries a �What is RSS� help page and a suggestion for a free downloadable RSS Newsreader. Technical information What is RSS ? RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like.�Instead of having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or documented a new feature, you can use RSS to get them to tell you every time they have something new. RM Support Online now offers RSS feeds (or channels) for most of its sections. To make use of RSS, you need to use a program called a�News Reader. This displays RSS information feeds from your chosen websites on your computer. Each RSS feed is usually clearly identified by either an orange RSS or XML image. On each Support portal you will find the RSS feeds clearly identified by an orange RSS image , usually at the top right hand side of�the page. How do I get a RSS news reader? There are a range of different News Readers available; click on�Google�to find links to the most popular products, many of which are free to install. Different News Readers work differently, so you will need to make your own choice dependant on your requirements. The What is RSS page offers a suggestion for a free download of an RSS Reader We hope you enjoy this exciting new facility. Alan Wheatley 29th June 2006

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Internet - Dial Up - Scam

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:00:00 GMT

Dial-up scam alert from BT - please read! Premium access rate web sites There are legitimate web sites that charge a premium rate for internet access by asking you to use a special dialler. These sites are regulated by the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS). The ICSTIS code of practice requires such sites to provide users with clear and prominent call cost information. However, not all sites follow the ICSTIS code of practice. Please be aware of the following scam involving use of premium rate internet dial-up numbers. How the scam works While surfing the internet you may inadvertently download software that changes your PC's default internet dial-up number to a premium rate number. Using such a premium rate number to connect to the internet can mean extra call charges (sometimes up to �1.50 a minute). Watch out! Downloading of premium rate dial-up software can be triggered by clicking on pop-up windows while surfing the internet or even opening an email attachment. Please be vigilant! What you need to do Always double-click on the BT Yahoo! icon (BT dialler) on your desktop when you want to connect to the internet as this makes sure that you connect to the correct BT Yahoo! Internet number. If you don't have this globe icon on your desktop, or you aren't sure if you're using a BT dialler, we suggest you simply download the appropriate BT dialler again. To download a BT dialler now and install the Internet Connection Manager, please choose from the following: If you're a BT Yahoo Pay-as-you-go customer, click here If you're a BT Yahoo SurfTime customer, click here If you're a BT Yahoo Anytime customer, click here If you're a BT Yahoo 24/7 customer, click here We also recommend that you regularly check the number your computer uses to dial-up to the internet to make sure it hasn't been changed to a premium rate number. On PCs using Windows, you can check this by clicking on 'Start' (usually bottom left of your desktop), then 'Connect to' (or similar, depending on your version of Windows), then right click the dial-up icon you wish to check and click on 'Properties'. To find out how to check your dial-up number using other computers and operating systems, please refer to the relevant user guides or help pages. What we can do to help We can't control the internet, but we can help you control the calls made from your home phone. You can use BT Select Call Barring to bar access to certain premium rate numbers. This barring facility is flexible and can be lifted at any time. The charge for BT Select Call Barring is �5.25 a quarter (inc VAT). To sign up, click here or call us on 150 (from a BT phone). More information and tips You can get more information on this type of scam and how to avoid them at BT ICSTIS BBC Watchdog We take your security very seriously and will do everything possible to help make sure you have a safe and secure internet experience. Best regards, BT Yahoo! Internet team

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