This has really got me very confused, since the title PCSO actually contains the word 'Police Officer' in it,
wheras the title 'Police Constable' doesn't technically.
The way i view and would define it is that a PCSO is ''An Officer of the police force whos role is to support the community by focusing on community/street crime'',
so how can people say they are not an 'Officer of the Police force'?
I am just very very confused by the whole notion of Police community officers being seen as ''a weaker and more fraile version of constables''.
when i infact thought it would be viewed as the other way around if anything.
PCSOS are the 1s who do the majority of the actual 'physical frontline policing', and are 'tough' enough to be able to do it without even having the use of handcuffs, batons or CS spray.
Wheras constables role is more the role of basically being a ''security secretary''.
In that the majority of the incidents that they will be called out to deal with are domestic/in-house ones, where there has already been an incident thats happended, and now they have been called to turnup, show the security presence, and then just write down all the details as the person dictates it to them,
then go back to their station and spend a few hours behind a computer screen typing it all up, filling out all the various forms, ticking all the boxes,
before being called out again to taking down some more details/picking up detainees who have ALREADY been detained by PCSOS, taking the detainees back to the station and then spending a few more hours doing all the paperwork for that.
So im just very confused as to why the general public/media seem to have a different view and image of PCSOS and PCS??
