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Originally Posted by Dan02
there are 6912 known active languages in the world. You can't provide a translator for all of them. Sure we can say Polish isn't that rare and there could have been a translator, but next time it could be a more obscure language which we don't have a translator for anyways.
It was a bad situation combined with a bad response from the police and some downright bad luck that the guy had a severe adverse reaction to the taser. Correct what you can, in this case the actions of the police and move along.
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Sure you most likely can not cover all 6000+ languages, but come on I work with 6 Polish people, like you said this is not some rare language. They have a large representation in every community. Call a Polish church. We are talking 10 hours with nothing... I'm not saying you have to have someone on hand. Create a multilingual call center that all airports and border crossings have at their disposal. If that would cost too much I'm sure people, if asked, would gladly sign up for as a "welcoming committee" type thing were you are invited to volunteer if you have bilingual skills and they can conference you in on a as needed basis. The authorities could have a database of local people in every port sorted by language skills. I'm sure many people would be happy to have a reason to use or practise their non-english speaking skills if it was only a few times a month.