Cost-cutting
Posted: Fri 21 September, 2007 Filed under: Cynicism, News, Thoughts 1 Comment »This story about two Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) who stood by while a child drowned ‘because they weren’t trained for it’ goes to illustrate (yet again) an oft-repeated question- Just what use are PCSOs, anyway?
In short, they’re no flamin’ use at all. They don’t have powers of arrest, they can’t stop and search. Really all they are is extra bodies that count towards “police presence”- without being able to do anything that’s actually useful. Except, I suppose, from directing people to the nearest police station in order to report a crime.
typical, when i went to 2 pcso’s the other week to tell them about a load of cars parked ileagley they just said to me not our problem, its the police problem, buti thought there radio’s were conected to the police anyway so why not just radio, then the real copppers can ticket all the ileagley parked cars,
i thought these cpso’s were here to help police to and the public to prevent crime, these 2 cpso’s didnt seem to give a shit