[Stoat]

You pinged me while I was away on vacation.

Welcome back, and I hope that you had a nice time   :-)

Anyway, put the political correct muzzie butt kissing aside for a minute and we'll see how well the city admin types like the PCSO babies on the beat when one of them gets the crap beat out of them or killed trying to detain a suspect.

Since it appears that there is very little concern on the part of city admin types for the safety of the regular citizens, as evidenced by an increasing crackdown on any efforts at self-defense on the part of the British public, I'm guessing that violence perpetrated against these kids will be viewed as similarly uninteresting, with the possible exception of 'outrage' over the 'inherent racism' involved in any attacks against these Muzzie kids. 

Whats wrong with just having an Explorer program like here in the states? We just put them at barricades for parades. Now if they'd just pick up spent brass at the range...

As stated in the article here:

"What we are seeing in Thames Valley is chief officers and chief constables looking at ways to save money.

"By replacing sworn police officers with PCSOs we are not getting the level of maturity and expertise which local people-will quite rightly want and deserve.

The Explorer programs here in the USA don't replace existing officers and therefore don't save money, whereas these 'community officers' are taking the place of actual police officers, at a significantly lower cost.

Less expertise, maturity, professionalism capability and effectiveness?  Apparently those are no longer active concerns.

You pinged me while I was away on vacation.

Welcome back, and I hope that you had a nice time   :-)

Anyway, put the political correct muzzie butt kissing aside for a minute and we'll see how well the city admin types like the PCSO babies on the beat when one of them gets the crap beat out of them or killed trying to detain a suspect.

Since it appears that there is very little concern on the part of city admin types for the safety of the regular citizens, as evidenced by an increasing crackdown on any efforts at self-defense on the part of the British public, I'm guessing that violence perpetrated against these kids will be viewed as similarly uninteresting, with the possible exception of 'outrage' over the 'inherent racism' involved in any attacks against these Muzzie kids. 

Whats wrong with just having an Explorer program like here in the states? We just put them at barricades for parades. Now if they'd just pick up spent brass at the range...

"What we are seeing in Thames Valley is chief officers and chief constables looking at ways to save money.

"By replacing sworn police officers with PCSOs we are not getting the level of maturity and expertise which local people-will quite rightly want and deserve.

[Horatio Gates]

Just for the record, my musings regarding explorers was tongue in cheek and some wishful thinking.