Starmer will pledge 13,000 more neighbourhood police, PCSOs and special constables by 2029, with an additional £100m of funding. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/04/starmer-seeks-to-rela… (View Post)

The Guardian fault is normally bias by omission when it comes to stories with inconvenient factors that challenge their world view and the hilarious opinion pieces. They are normally fairly good for … (View Post)

Blame the Guardian.... The government have still be majorly spinning, "The extra patrols will be paid for, the Home Office says, by efficiency measures such as standardising procurement.... But … (View Post)

Essentially yes, they can claim some expenses, cost of missing work. But do the maths, a huge bulk of them would have to be volunteers to make the sum add up. Is that likely that you will get many 10… (View Post)

PSCOs still get paid £25k a year (and of course you roughly double a salary as the cost to employ somebody when you factor in NI, pension, uniform etc). There is going to have to be a very large numb… (View Post)