RizzyKing

In my area we had two female pcso's who also live locally and they joined because they wanted to make a difference and in fairness to them they did a lot of work with the local kids and were making an impact. Unfortunately the hardcore of bad youth knew they had no real powers and even taunted them about not being able to get a "real copper" if they needed one.

Speaking to the two of them that have now stopped being pcso's they said as well that the attitude from regular police officers towards them was lousy and that they couldn't get any help when they needed it. They both had their windows put through because of being pcso's and in the end decided they couldn't continue as they both had family's and it was impacting too much on that.

We either have to give them some sort of real power or make it one pcso to one police officer or scrap the whole idea. As it is now there is absolutely no reason for a good person to become a pcso and that message is getting through to more and more people so at some point it will be a pointless exercise anyway.