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POLICE officers are being taught Polish in a bid to communicate with the thousands of Polish workers who have come to East Lancashire.
Bosses have made cash available for officers to learn foreign languages and one of the most popular choices are lessons in Polish.
Police chiefs believe the move will help build relations with new European workers in the area.
It is said that Polish workers often have a mistrust of the police due to bad experiences in their homeland and come to the county with little or no English Sergeant John Rigby, of Blackburn police's ethnic mino-rity team, said: "We believe languages help officers broaden their outlook and break down communication barriers.
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Here we go, we are short of Police on the streets, crime is sky high and what do the Police decide to fund first? That's right, members of our once proud Police Force are having to learn Polish (And other languages) to be able to speak to people who have chosen to live in an English speaking country.
The first step in helping relations between people would be for THEM to learn the local language, of English. There you go, pay for that instead. And that idea is free, more will cost you!