Chris Gordon, CEO of community hub The Keepers, says that PCSOs have been "valuable" in listening to residents' concerns ...

A police force is to cut 60 staff jobs in a bid to save £12.3m over the next year. Gloucestershire Constabulary said it would ...

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A police force is looking to cut all of its PCSOs to help balance the books following a Government funding settlement described as “not enough”. Essex Police said it could get rid of all 99 ...

Gloucestershire police will cut 60 police staff jobs and the mounted police unit will be transferred to West Midlands Police ...

said he could not confirm which staff roles would be cut, but that a "variety" could be lost. "We recognise the impact this has on staff, officers and PCSOs who come to work each day to protect ...

The former Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Shelford has responded to recent comments made by MP Gideon Amos.

Yvette Cooper told MPs the Conservative government had cut the number of neighbourhood ... some to recruit new PCSOs, some to redeploy existing police officers, but then to backfill by recruiting ...

All 99 PCSOs in Essex were under the threat of redundancy with Essex Police facing a £5.3 million budget gap. A Brentwood Council report from 2024 said the borough had two PCSOs. The move ...