Article: `Traitors' jibe at top police officers.(News)

Article: Letter: CSOs are certainly not police ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 26, 2007 ;     587 words ... ... Community support officers are not police officers and lobbying for changes in ... Bill). The rationale -that CSOs are about 'community support ... further in their thinking. Are CSOs necessarily always best employed ... down any better (with those CSOs who see the job as a way into ...

Article: National roll out of detention powers for CSOs.
M2 Presswire;  December 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... It shows clearly that CSOs are valued by the public and police officers." The main initial ... National Evaluation of CSOs showed: * CSOs spend ... targets of 132,500 police officers in 2004 and 4,000 CSOs by the end of 2005 ...

Article: Region to get more Blunkett bouncers; 75 CSOs to help ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... night described the CSOs as policing on ... recruiting fully trained police officers. But Mr Blunk ... taking on the job of CSOs will eventually ... becoming fully trained police officers. ``I accept ... valuable than two CSOs. ``I think it ... on fully trained police ...

Article: CSOs having little impact.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 24, 2004 ;     620 words ... ... gave the goahead for all CSOs to have the power to detain ... prepared to pass information to CSOs that they would not have given to fully-sworn police officers. But it added: 'In some ... whether the presence of CSOs has an impact on crime ...

Article: Police should replace CSOs on the streets; Federation ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 19, 2008 ;     655 words ... ... would like to see CSOs replaced by police officers. It comes just ... there were fewer CSOs on the beat and more police officers. And after being ... experiment with CSOs has clearly failed ... public want to see police officers, not imitations ...

Article: Police CSOs are a 'PR con and can't be evaluated'.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the force said that its 644 CSOs issued fixed penalty notices ... inside out and knows about CSOs, if anything the CSO is a ... record of those handed out by CSOs and those by regular officers ... appropriately experienced and equipped police officers." Mr Tonks said PCSOs had ...

Article: Call to give CSOs power of arrest.
The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England);  November 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... outline the role of CSOs amid calls from some ... which comprise police, CSOs and council staff ... statements by senior Barnsley police officers. The subject of the ... teams are made up of 70 police officers, 41 community support ... Insp Gary Boughen said CSOs were making a real ...