How 'plastic bobbies' can 罰金 you for 飛行機で行く-地位，任命するing in Leicester, but not London

By Christopher 漏れる
Updated: 22:01 BST, 19 September 2009

Unwanted: Some PCSOs （人命などを）奪う，主張する that constables turn their 支援するs on them

Police 軍隊s have 明らかにする／漏らすd startling differences in the 力／強力にするs they give to 議論の的になる community support officers.

In reply to Freedom of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 行為／法令／行動する requests, 18 of the 43 軍隊s in England and むちの跡s 収容する／認める that of the 35,000 制服を着た officers patrolling their streets, 10,000 ? almost one in three ? are いわゆる ‘plastic bobbies’.

The Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) ? introduced in 2002 by then Home 長官 David Blunkett ? have been attacked as an ineffectual 軍隊 against 犯罪のs.

They can 問題／発行する その場で／直ちに 罰金s for littering, cycling on footpaths and 犯罪の 損失 but can 拘留する 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs for a 最大限 of only 30 minutes.

In Cambridgeshire, PCSOs can 問題／発行する a 罰金 for throwing a 花火 but they can’t in 隣人ing Hertfordshire. In Humberside and Leicestershire, they can 問題／発行する 罰金s for 飛行機で行く-地位，任命するing but in London they cannot do so.

PCSOs have the 議論の的になる 力／強力にする to 拘留する in 21 軍隊s, but only 13 give them the 付加 権利 to use reasonable 軍隊 to 達成する it.

In Cheshire, PCSOs can 拘留する 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs for 30 minutes but they cannot stop them from running or walking away. In North むちの跡s, they can not only stop somebody for 30 minutes but also use reasonable 軍隊 to keep them there, 含むing using 手錠s which come as 基準 道具 there.

The findings were 暴露するd by Channel 4’s 派遣（する）s, whose 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs On The Cheap? programme tomorrow will その上の 燃料 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that the millions spent on PCSOs would be better spent on 新採用するing mo re 十分な-time officers.

Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police 連合, tells the programme: ‘We don’t know what PCSOs are doing on a 事例／患者-by-事例／患者 basis across the 軍隊s.

欠陥d 実験: PCSOs were first introduced in 2002 by then Home 長官 David Blunkett

'There are 43 different models out there. It is very difficult to pin 負かす／撃墜する what the public are getting when they see a PCSO on the streets.

‘It is worrying because it exemplifies very 明確に that there are 深遠な differences between 軍隊s and how PCSOs are 存在 used. We need to know what it is that they are 存在 雇うd for.’

A 調査する of more than 1,000 PCSOs carried out by the programme showed that 90 per cent thought their 力／強力にするs should become 基準 across the country and three-４半期/4分の1s did not believe they had 適する 力／強力にするs to do their 職業 適切に.

Nearly half （人命などを）奪う，主張するd they had been 貧しく 扱う／治療するd by police officers.

With their 発言する／表明するs and 身元s disguised, PCSOs 明らかにする／漏らす in the programme how they are shown a 欠如（する） of 尊敬（する）・点 by the police and the public.

One says: ‘Constables tell us, “I don’t agree with your 役割, you’re a cheaper 見解／翻訳／版 of us.”’

Another says: ‘If you see a fight on the street...you stand there, you give a 言葉の commentary to the 操作者 about what is going on, and the whole community just sees you standing there ...people are going to turn their 支援するs on you.’

Mr McKe ever 追加するd: ‘They were brought in for the best of 推論する／理由s but I think it was a 深く，強烈に 欠陥d 実験 and one that has not 納得させるd us that they are a better 代案／選択肢 to 雇うing fully 令状d constables.

‘If you are conning the public by putting people in uniform who the public believe have po wers they don’t 所有する, why are we 雇うing them?’

Ben Priestley, of the union Unison which 代表するs PCSOs, said: ‘The 政府 needs to give them the 力／強力にするs they need to get on with the 職業.

‘Giving PCSOs different 力／強力にするs in different 軍隊s makes no sense when they are all doing the same 職業. It only serves to 混乱させる the public.’