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Originally Posted by glasgow guy
I think that you'll find that pcso's do have power....
read on and learn a bit about them.....
http://www.policecommunitysupportoff...BB2/powers.php - there are quite a few laws on there applicable to pcso's that are not applicable to street wardens..
and the pcso's have nothing to do with the council as they are controlled by (in this case) lancashire constabulary..they are also paid by them and the training is also by the police which is why they have more power than the street wardens which will soon be defunct... |
Police community support officers (PCSOs) can be designated with the power to require the name and address of a person who they think has committed a relevant offence under paragraph 2 of Part 1, Schedule 4, Police Reform Act 2002 (PRA).
Chief officers also have discretion over which of the powers in Part 1 of Schedule 4 they want to bestow on their PCSOs. (same PRA powers as wardens have)
In order to reduce training requirements and ensure PCSOs’ efforts are focused on their core business, it is likely that only those powers necessary to meet the envisaged deployment will be bestowed. There is nothing in the legislation preventing PCSOs in the same force having different powers according to local needs (e.g. detention powers in one Division but not in another, as in the MET's Lambeth).
These powers listed on the above link seem identical to wardens powers so it may be PCSO's could have them but don't locally. Obviously the question then is who do you want to set policy. The Council and Area Councils with wardens, or the Council hand over descretion to the Police on what powers they think or can afford to bestow.
The police recently informed the councils scrutiny function that PCSO's have no powers and our local PCSO says he has no powers her in Hyndburn.
http://www.together.gov.uk/article.asp?aid=3481