Do Police Community Support Officers make a real difference in preventing crime and improving community safety, or should we just have regular police officers with full powers instead?
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00:00Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think it's good to see them in the neighbourhood. I think
00:07it's good for everybody. So they are more than polices.
00:10Do police community support officers make a real difference in preventing crime and
00:14improving community safety?
00:16I'll be honest, I can't remember the last time I saw one.
00:21Well, regular police officers cost more. So they probably get two of the, so what we call
00:27them now, the assistant police, yeah, for one fully trained and paid police officer.
00:36It's hard to say. I haven't been close enough to it. I'm not close enough to crime at the
00:40moment to tell you. So I can't answer that one.
00:43They're a good force. They're just undermanned and overworked.
00:48I could say yes. I could answer yes, because yes, yeah, for everybody to know that they
00:53are around, I think that makes everybody to feel better. That's my opinion, yeah.