Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to police forces on their obligation to provide interpreter services.

This question was answered on 4th December 2014
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code of Practice C (on the Detention, Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers) sets out the obligations of chief officers in respect of interpretation and translation services. Please refer to Section 13 of PACE in particular.