We have had many PCSO's in X. Many come, and leave due to high levels of stress and frustration. But just to highlight the problems we have with young peoples attitudes concerning PCSO's, i'd like to share an experience with you.
A PCSO came to the youth club, to discuss an attack on an ethnic person in the village. Straight away, the young people see the PCSO in uniform, and dislike them, because they see them as police. But their attitude to them, presuming they are police is disgusting.
One young person (15 years old) approached the PCSO, and told them they had a pocket full of skunk. The PCSO replied that if he thought this person had any drugs on them, he would be forced to check them, and take their name and address. The young person then replied "I'm telling you I have a pocket full of skunk, come and check me." to which the rest of the group started gathering and laughing. Again, the PCSO warned the young person, and again, the young person told them they had skunk on them, and even produced a packet of skunk, and again, said "come and check me".
The PCSO then said he needed to get away quickly, because there was an emergency to get to. He panicked.
As he left, the young people shouted at him, calling him a "fucking pig cunt" along with other aggresive language. Altogether, they then started shouting "fuck the police" in unison. It took us ages before we could calm them all down, and shut the club up...
This is just one occasion where PCSO's have been proven to be absolutely useless.
It turns out that PCSO's do not have the power to search people. The young people know this.
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