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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Yet everyone moans when a police officer is tied up doing a menial task  PSCO's were brought in to free up the police to do more real police work instead of having a trained police officer doing it. Same with the highways agency patrols on the motorway. |
There are still plenty of menial tasks the Police get stuck with. My personal viewpoint is the money spent on them could be better spent on fully sworn in Constables and reigning in the amount of paperwork and non-crimes they get involved in.
Similarly swap the Highways agency wombles for 'proper' Traffic Officers able to deal with criminals on the road.
I'm suspicious of the motives of the Government, they seem to be trying to dilute the Police and have more and more pseudo-Police about doing bits and pieces and trying to persuade the public they are safe. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to drop the number of actual Police in favour of more staff from other agencies to try and save money.