How did PCSOs get launched anyway?
Dear All I read an article in Police Magazine some time ago in which a Chief Officer indicated that ACPO & the Government had wanted to create a second line of Patrol Constables. The Federation were so anti this idea that the PCSO idea was born. The ACPO Officer indicated that in his view we were lucky that, given the Federation’s attitude, CSOs had not been made a seperate force perhaps employed directly by the Government or Local Authorities. We are here to stay in one form or another.
