Introduction to Police Interpreting: CPD for BSL/English Interpreters

Enhance your knowledge of the Police domain in this interactive online CPD course.

Course Description

An Introduction to Police Interpreting: CPD 

This online 4-week Canvas course is brought to you by the University of Wolverhampton and is designed to provide an introduction to interpreting in the Police domain for BSL/English Interpreters.

The course information is provided by senior lecturers from both the interpreting and policing subjects with experience in this domain and includes:

• What happens at a Police Station and why might an interpreter be needed?
• Interpreting the Police caution
• Police Interviews, types of interviews and questioning techniques
• Simulated, interpreted, victim and suspect interviews
• Model interpretations for you to compare with your own work
• Experiences of a deaf interpreter in the Police setting

Each weekly module contains at least 2-hours of worth of activity for you to complete, including a variety of pre-recorded video lectures, journal articles, interpretation tasks, discussion forums, online quizzes and glossary building tasks.

The course, upon full completion of the activities, is worth 8 structured CPD points.

 

https://www.wlv.ac.uk/business-services/continuous-professional-development-/an-introduction-to-police-interpreting-cpd/

Course leader: Thaïsa Hughes

Contact thaisa.hughes@wlv.ac.uk