Plan to slash PCSO numbers a 'desperate measure'

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Plan to slash PCSO numbers a 'desperate measure'

100 officers will be moved to neighbourhood teams in force shake-up.

Chief Constable Gareth Wilson

Date - 19th July 2018
By - JJ Hutber- Police Oracle

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Proposals which could see PCSOs slashed by 78 per cent since 2010 have been lambasted as “short-sighted and reckless”. This week Suffolk Constabulary confirmed a planned “restructure” which would see more than 100 officers...

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