Bloody CSOs

[the grim reaper]

Cycling home last night and two CSOs were walking down the pavement in front of me. The car infront, a BMW, wanted to turn left into a pub carpark but the CSOs were walking across the entrance (a woman and a bloke) really slowly. The woman started to speed up her walking but the bloke put his hand on her arm to slow her down, they must have literally taken 20 seconds or more to walk about fifteen feet, deliberately taking their time until the BMW could eventually turn left.

I'm sure not all CSOs are this obnoxious but you could see that these two thought they were the most important people since Einstein and Newton.

Cheers

Grim
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[UnknownStuntm...]

Nah, bet they were both bikers getting one back on BMW drivers.

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[Mudskipper]

The pair of tosser PCSOs who were cycling two abreast at walking pace, chatting away, down a street heavy with on-road parking meaning I had to follow them for five minutes (in the car) were more annoying.
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[Dragonfly]

CSO? Cyclist stand off? what does CSO mean?
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Community Support Officer. Plastic Plod. Hobby Bobbies.

They get no respect from the public, nor the police.
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[the grim reaper]

Yep, specials still exist, mainly as a way of getting into the real Police once a vacancy opens up. Some still do it as a part time job on top of a full time job but these are often little hitlers who want the power.

Cheers

Grim
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[hellkat]

It's hard enough to understand why anybody would want-to-be a plod at all, anyway, these days ... let alone be a Wannabe Plod.

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[LustyLew]

Round my way (Lewisham, BRAP BRAP!), we now have 'community wardens'. So that's another jumped up tw@t to add to the list. Spotted two of them last night, dressed up just like plod on white mountain bikes, wobbling all over the A20!

So, I think the pecking order is:

Police Constable.
Police Community Support Officer.
'Special' Police Officer.
Community Warden. (probably council (tax) funded).

I probably need to be corrected, but as I understood it, 'Specials' had the full powers of a PC, whereas PCSO's did not have the power to arrest?
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[c_dug]

AFAIK specials have exactly the same powers as a normal pc, difference being they do it as a part time job and work for free.

It is a minimum of 4 hours work per week, and obviously they dont do things like traffic or dogs or the cool bits of the police basicly.

PCSO have very limited powers, pretty much equivilant to a civilian if im honest, only difference is they get a uniform and notepad to make the seem important. Probably not worth pissing them off eitherway since they can get in contact with the proper police via walkie talkie.

c_dug
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[SlimRick]

Here in Sheffield, we also have "City Centre Ambassadors" They bollock you for dropping litter, but can also give out fixed penalty notices for anti-social behaviour.

[ms51ves3]

[RatBlack]

[c_dug]

PCSO: tell me your name so i can fine you
ME: no
PCSO: stay here
ME: no.

*c_dug walks off safely in the knowledge that they can do nothing*

c_dug
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[Poseidon]

No-body has commented on the fact that these meat-bags in uniform are on £18k a year...
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[alone]

I was just going to bring that fact up.. I actually thought it was more than that, but 18k is too much anyway.

I've seen a few Community Wardens around Reading, to be fair, the ones I've seen have been quite built..and I'd sooner fight with a cop than one of those guys lol
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[G]

The two that asked me to move a bike off the pavement after a complaint from a neighbour were old and not very tough looking.
The person complaining (they wouldn't tell me who) blatantly had no reason to use the pavement. Nor did they have much to say when I asked what the problem really was - as I live in a small close where half the people walk down the road anyway and definitely there's no one with a double buggy, which is the measure of acceptable space.

[Visitor Q]

I nearly stacked it on a random HUGE pile of sock/gravel/rock covering a large portion of a roundabout today. Barely managed to hold it up, but where it was positioned it came as a very unwelcome shock and was seriously dangerous.

As I continued round, I clocked a couple of PCSO's in a car entering the roundabout and slowed down (I was taking the 3rd exit) to point at the floor/direction the crap was in.

Pointed a bit more, pretty much at a stop by now (had loud music on so no point actually trying to talk to them, and in a rush so couldn't be arsed trying) and they seemed to understand...

... So tore off through the rubble and down the road after some imaginary robber/speeder/granny raper.



Did they really think I'd trust them with any thing more then phoning in the patently dangerous crap on the road? Did they even notice that the crap on the road was not just making the place look untidy?

Bah.
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[pa_broon74]

A couple of my pals are Special's... They're both fine people, one used to be a real hard liner, not right wing exactly, just a zero tolerance type, now though; he genuinely couldn't give a shit about it. He's a desk seargent, not sure if that's still what they're called, basically sits and signs the ne'er do wells in.

The other guy is really laid back in real life but apparently could be taken for some sort of storm trooper when in uniform. He's one of those who gets really patronising with folks and just gets wound up by small children...

Specials seem to be fairly well thought of, its all the fake uniform people that annoy me, litter wardens, parking wardens, taxi rank wardens, bus queue wardens, check out wardens, this wardens that wardens... All evidenced by purple epaulettes and looking faintly like some sort of cartoon cruise ship captain.


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