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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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Before we have people shouting all kinds of abuse, I welcome anyone and know people of many faiths as well as worked and working with them.
But isn't this a waste of money which could be spent on the Police Service to tackle crime? We are short of Police Officers as it is and crime is high.
In my opinion, relations can only improve when people start to learn the native tongue of the country they chose to live in.