Unison said the income tax cut would have paid for an extra 30,000 nurses, 15,000 police officers, 20,000 teachers and 10,000 police
community support officers.
Data obtained by the Examiner shows there were 520 student police officers, 114 police and
community support officers and 51 special constables appointed by West Yorkshire Police in 2016/17.
West Midlands Police is hoping to enlist 800 officers, 150 new police
community support officers and 200 specialist staff over the next three years.
Police
Community Support Officers will also be visiting children in the hospital to talk to them about being a Police Officer and taking their fingerprints.
THOUSANDS of police staff, including
community support officers, could be due to walk out in an ongoing dispute over pay.
Community support officers from Moreton West organised the free Rampworx event at Lingham skatepark in Lingham Park, off Edgehill Road, Moreton, between 11am and 2pm yesterday.
Customers and staff at Asda in Billingham raised PS200 to buy their local
community support officers two new bikes to use on the beat.
NEIGHBOURHOOD policing is "dying on the beat" because more than 20% of
community support officers have been axed, it is claimed today.
"The number of devices procured by forces we surveyed ranges from a device available to one per cent of their police officers and police
community support officers to 151 per cent."
One of the first changes she has made in her new post is to re-align the
community support officers with a neighbourhood beat manager.
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Community Support Officers (PCSOs) should be given more power to fight crime without having "one arm tied behind their backs", the union Unison said.