Any PCSO's?

Every PCSO I've met has been on a massive powertrip. Ever special I've met has been a really nice person. Either way, they touch me I'm breaking their arm. They're given too much "grey area" power. Some are given batons and CS gas and given an afternoons training ffs. If they can have them legally - why can't we? We could go to a training course (just an afternoon) on how to use it... after all.

Internally they're known as CHIMPS btw, Can't help In Most Police Situations.
 
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We call them rent a cops.

Never really had any experiance with them, but you can be sure that they will be nowhere near any trouble.

But then again, thats probably not what they're for. More for a public presence.
 
Be prepared to be abused by local kids who have more power than you do.

See it all the time around here, annoy me a bit as well though, we call them plastic coppers as well.
 
Soviet said:
I wouldn't bother with PCSO, they have to pretty much ask criminals to wait around for the proper Police to come along and arrest them.
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Theor role isn't to deal with criminals though; the hint is in their name. For some reason, people expect PCSOs to be serving the same purpose as Police Officers in terms of catching criminals, but that isn't why they were introduced. The police have long been failing to keep up proper ties with the community for all sorts of reasons, so PCSOs were introduced to remedy that, and they've been very successful at that. They have a much better idea of what's going on in an area than the regular police do, a lot of the time.

They're not an instant fix and I do think there's far too much focus placed upon them, but it's been a step in the right direction. Now they just need to get police officers away from desks and out doing their job.
 
TheVoice said:
Theor role isn't to deal with criminals though; the hint is in their name. For some reason, people expect PCSOs to be serving the same purpose as Police Officers in terms of catching criminals, but that isn't why they were introduced. The police have long been failing to keep up proper ties with the community for all sorts of reasons, so PCSOs were introduced to remedy that, and they've been very successful at that. They have a much better idea of what's going on in an area than the regular police do, a lot of the time.

They're not an instant fix and I do think there's far too much focus placed upon them, but it's been a step in the right direction. Now they just need to get police officers away from desks and out doing their job.
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I agree that this is where the majority of the confusion about them comes in, but they have been put in a very grey area, they're dressed like normal police in many areas and they have some powers but not many, so it gives people the impression that they're just PC's who aren't allowed to do as much
 
I've got an interview to become a PCSO this July, the interview pack came through and it sounds pretty fun :). It'll be my first full-time job and 21k for a first job isn't bad!
 
Round here they aren't very well respected at all, unfortunately. In the paper you see stories of them getting beat up by gangs of 20+ yobs, their bikes stolen etc.

Round here they are called either "Plastic police" or "Police that aren't really police". :rolleyes:
 
Steve2000 said:
Round here they aren't very well respected at all, unfortunately. In the paper you see stories of them getting beat up by gangs of 20+ yobs, their bikes stolen etc.

Round here they are called either "Plastic police" or "Police that aren't really police". :rolleyes:
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Lets hope the yobs up in Boro get whats coming to them then :)
 
Biohazard said:
no they get 16k
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Thye get considerably more than that, closer to 23k.

People may take the mic, but they dont understand what they do or what they are there for.


Eriedor said:
30 minutes.
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No thats using their detention powers, which come from the police reform act 2002, he is referring to arresting someone under sect 24a of PACE, for which there is no time limit
 
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TheVoice said:
Theor role isn't to deal with criminals though; the hint is in their name. For some reason, people expect PCSOs to be serving the same purpose as Police Officers in terms of catching criminals, but that isn't why they were introduced. The police have long been failing to keep up proper ties with the community for all sorts of reasons, so PCSOs were introduced to remedy that, and they've been very successful at that. They have a much better idea of what's going on in an area than the regular police do, a lot of the time.

They're not an instant fix and I do think there's far too much focus placed upon them, but it's been a step in the right direction. Now they just need to get police officers away from desks and out doing their job.
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Well said - The intelligence gathering by PCSOs is second to none.
 
around some parts of london they are called "piglets".
a full police officer being referred to as a "pig" of course.
 
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