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**tefraxKedWere** · 09-25-2007, 11:58 AM

the police are putting neighbourhood police teams on to the streets in London and every area is to get them.

The great expansion within the UK Police forces is the recruitment of so-called Police Community Safety Officers (PCSO's), who receive minimum training (I think its 3 weeks), have no powers of arrest, can detain someone for only a maximum of 30 minutes, and are about as useful as a pork chop at a kosher restaurant! They don't even have to pass fitness tests, can enter with lower educational standards, and, here's the real issue, are paid well below what a normal proper cop gets.
Quite frankly they're a cop-out for the authorities, (if you'll excuse the unintended pun), its "policing" on the cheap.
As a Home Office report has said, "there is little evidence that PSCO's have had much impact on anti-social behaviour". I would add, "and crime prevention & detection."

Take a look at this recent example of their "professionalism"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...70&expand=true

09-25-2007, 11:58 AM	#22
tefraxKedWere Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	the police are putting neighbourhood police teams on to the streets in London and every area is to get them. The great expansion within the UK Police forces is the recruitment of so-called Police Community Safety Officers (PCSO's), who receive minimum training (I think its 3 weeks), have no powers of arrest, can detain someone for only a maximum of 30 minutes, and are about as useful as a pork chop at a kosher restaurant! They don't even have to pass fitness tests, can enter with lower educational standards, and, here's the real issue, are paid well below what a normal proper cop gets. Quite frankly they're a cop-out for the authorities, (if you'll excuse the unintended pun), its "policing" on the cheap. As a Home Office report has said, "there is little evidence that PSCO's have had much impact on anti-social behaviour". I would add, "and crime prevention & detection." Take a look at this recent example of their "professionalism" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...70&expand=true
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