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Communicate with ease with the Spanish-speaking public!

Learning Spanish is vital to performing many public services, include police work and other law-enforcement professions. Police, patrollers, detectives, and corrections, parole, court and security officers who interact with Spanish- speaking people need this specialized, easy-to-use guide to help them communicate and sometimes translate quickly and effectively?anywhere.

?From expert authors with experience in Spanish language instruction for law enforcement officials
?Essential phrases?including Miranda rights?and vocabulary for patrol, investigations, emergency situations, narcotics, corrections, and more ?Easy-to-use phonetic translations
?Useful information on Latino culture and street Spanish

Lt. Jacquelyn R. MacConnell is currently with the Phoenix Police Department where she has been employed since 1994. She learned Spanish as a child, living in Colombia, South America. Becoming a police officer in Phoenix, she quickly learned the advantages of knowing Spanish and created a program for the police department to teach other officers basic street Spanish. Lt. MacConnell has also used her knowledge to create her own security consulting business.