[frogstamper]

I cannot see the point of these PCSOs, they seem to have very little power or authority, there only purpose as I see it is to show a person of authority in a uniform. But as Osem says, the mouthy youths he came across were well ware of these poor sods lack of authority. There does seem to be an awful lot of these PCSOs about nowadays, on a visit to London from Brighton yesterday I saw at least half a dozen pairs of them, it seems to me it would be far better to have half as many real extra police on the streets with real authority.