Violenza contro i PCSO: “Sono stato strangolato – proprio mentre faccio il mio lavoro”

Why was a PCSO left overseeing someone under arrest?

I mean… That’s not the PCSO role is it? Given that the person was under arrest it suggests an officer must have been there.

Yes, funding is going to be an issue but how PCSOs are being used must play a role here. Violence is a risk.

There have been a few instances in the constabulary which I serve in where spineless Inspectors and Chief Inspectors have sent PCSO’s to emergency call-outs because there aren’t any PC’s to send, which has resulted in the PCSO’s being assaulted without any officers to immediately support them. The PCSO’s would have even well within their rights to say no but they won’t for fear of disciplinary action.

This of course is so those ranking officers can hit their response time targets and so they can pad out their portfolios and evade a bollocking from their perfidious superiors.

The issues here are the lack of staffing and funding, along with cowardly and incompetent management bowing to pressure from self interested chief officers and the home office to “do more with less”. This will continue to get worse until there is a significant increase in funding and recruitment and a change in leadership.

Also: “Assault on a member of the police workforce is illegal, and those found guilty will face the full force of the law.”

Yeah fuckin right, they’ll add it to their long list of convictions, give them a meaningless community order and fuck them back off down the dole office so they can go and scrounge more of hard working people’s tax money to spend on booze and sniff.