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The Taxpayers' Alliance asked Hampshire Constabulary for details of what had been achieved last year by its 330 PCSOs, who were each paid an average of £23,636 and who cost that county a total of £7.8 million in wages.
They discovered that the PCSOs, who have no powers of arrest and serve no real purpose except what one senior officer said was to ‘provide a visible presence on the streets’, detected just 50 crimes and handed out only 122 fines. So the productivity of PCSOs in that force was £156,000 per crime detected.
It makes you wonder what the position is around the country. If it is anything like as similar, then one hopes the coalition government will get rid of PCSOs and protect the employment of ‘real’ policemen as soon as possible.
This is more particularly relevant to Hampshire as their Chief Constable is considering reducing his force by a fifth, or 1,400 jobs.
Get rid of the PCSOs and keep the ‘real’ bobbies!
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The Taxpayers' Alliance asked Hampshire Constabulary for details of what had been achieved last year by its 330 PCSOs, who were each paid an average of £23,636 and who cost that county a total of £7.8 million in wages.
They discovered that the PCSOs, who have no powers of arrest and serve no real purpose except what one senior officer said was to ‘provide a visible presence on the streets’, detected just 50 crimes and handed out only 122 fines. So the productivity of PCSOs in that force was £156,000 per crime detected.
It makes you wonder what the position is around the country. If it is anything like as similar, then one hopes the coalition government will get rid of PCSOs and protect the employment of ‘real’ policemen as soon as possible.
This is more particularly relevant to Hampshire as their Chief Constable is considering reducing his force by a fifth, or 1,400 jobs.
Get rid of the PCSOs and keep the ‘real’ bobbies!
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