PCSO’s – Is It Impossible To Get Sacked?
It’s perhaps not fair to tar all of McDoom’s plastic policemen as wannabe-coppers who just can’t make the grade. Maybe some genuinely aspire to pathetic mediocrity in a cheap reflective jacket. But it’s obvious that a good percentage are using the uniform to make up for shortcomings in the truncheon-size department.
One such community minded stalwart is now ex-PCSO Daniel King, 24 who has just been locked up for 20 months for indecency with a 12 year old girl. Doubtless his new cellmate colleagues will make him very welcome when they find out what he’s in for.
From the BBC: The court heard that King, who has since resigned his position as a police community support officer (PCSO) for Devon and Cornwall Police, drove the girl to Teignmouth in March 2006 where he touched her inappropriately.
Note the “resigned” part, as we shall return to that. Various other details are then repeated of a nature and detail unnecessary for this family blog, however the story widens into an interesting insight into the lengths a person actually has to go to in order to get thrown out of the Force, Service, Perverts-R-Us. Consider this:
It was also revealed in court that King had previously been disciplined for stalking female police colleagues and sending them texts of a sexual nature. The court was told a tribunal had found him guilty of gross misconduct and he was served with a harassment notice and given a written warning but was allowed to return as a PCSO.
So he is guilty of all of these things – offences which would have seen you or I uploaded straight to the Harriet Harperson Memorial Database for the Forever Unemployable. And yet he gets to keep his handcuffs on his belt whilst he graduates to more serious offences. Even after that he only “resigns”. Now that resignation obviously wasn’t optional or willing but that’s hardly the point – it should make very clear on his record for all to see…FIRED…SACKED….DISMISSED and it should have happened after his first set of offences, not after what he did later on. He was not a fit custodian of the law and the baton should have been passed on with prejudice
On the evidence of this case it’s a legitimate question to pose. Just what do you have to do to get sacked as a PCSO?
I’m beginning to think you’re absolutely right about PCSO’s .. Check this out …
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Deep-regret-knife-attack-PCSO/article-1502457-detail/article.html …
Talk about being “bomb-proof” ..
Likewise I got as far as ” robust action will always be taken…” Yeah, like allowing someone to resign ?
“…sent her texts saying “he found her attractive and loved her and she had a nice body” Thick, as well as being a nonce.
The problem now is that Police Forces can’t afford to sack these numpties, as they’ve come to rely on them totally for patrolling the streets ..
When did you last see a “real” Copper, wearing a “tall hat” out on foot patrol ?
I last saw one in my Town about 6 months ago .. I was sorely tempted to stop the car, ask if he was lost and offer to run him back to the safety of the Nick ..
The idiot deserves longer inside than that. Hope you dont mind but can I correct you. PCSOs do not carry handcuffs. Only constables are allowed to use handcuffs. A large number of PCSOs use this as a stepping stone to become regular officers and others who do a good job. But I do agree with you that there are many who should not be employed by the constabulary. I think a lot depends on how individual constabularies choose to employ PCSOs. PS….I am a special constable so have worked with many. Some have been injured on duty (minor in my area), but others have had more serious injuries in the course of their duties including one who was stabbed in the neck.
The office of Special Constable (and its equivalent of ‘Honorary’ in the Channel Islands) has been a vocational one in the past with a roll-call of officers distinguishing themselves with bravery and intelligence before heading back to the day job which pays the mortgage. It’s very important to draw a distinction between that and this NuLabour version of quotas and visibility on the cheap. Everything Labour touches seems to get devalued in this way.
And the handcuffs line has been altered, thanks…in Gib we don’t have them so I rely on knowlegeable readers to factcheck the details.!
I’d be very surprised if PCSOs and Specials did not carry handcuffs since private security guards can be trained by the police in their use and be ” authorised ” to do so.
Right, I have finally extracted my finger from the orifice it was lodged in and looked this up for myself. PCSO’s do carry handcuffs.
Just give us more real police! Who have had proper training and been sworn in. The real police training is also part of the weeding out process,to help
stop some retarded idiot wannabe joining up. So the idiot wannabee becomes a pcso instead, because they can slip through the weak training easily.
Kiddie fiddler king is just the tip of the iceberg!
No they DONT carry handcuffs. In general it is deemed unnecessary as what you all fail to yet understand is that the role of PCSO is different to that of a PC. They do not require handcuffs to do their role, some BTP PCSO’s do due to the possibility of isolation on trains.
There are just as many if not more “bad eggs” who are PC’s. Difference being they do not get reported on forums like this because sad people with no lives (like yourselves) only whine about PCSO’s.
pcso are doing a good job and are serving the community, why do people slag them off all the time? and call then plastinc pc etc, typical snobbish attutude