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Practical Skills for Police Community Support Officers is a formidable guide created specially for candidates who are going through the PCSO selection process or already existing PCSO's.

The role of the Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) is increasingly demanding and challenging, requiring constant learning and application of practical skills. This book is written as a practical guide for prospective or newly-recruited PCSOs, as well as established officers who want to refresh and develop their knowledge.

Linked throughout to the National Occupational Standards, this book introduces the key, universal areas of competency for PCSOs and guides the reader through incidents typical of those PCSOs will encounter. Throughout, these scenarios are addressed with up-to-date policing methods, relevant procedure and legislation.

Police community support officers (PCSOs) are uniformed staff whose role is to support the work of police officers and work within their local community. Their role is to assist the police in areas that need a certain level of police presence, but not necessarily the expertise of a trained police officer. They free up some of the time police officers might spend on routine tasks or low-level crime issues, and provide a valuable service to the community.

They may help with issues such as:

- providing a visible and reassuring presence within communities

- attending incidents of disorder, nuisance and anti-social behaviour

- dealing with community issues such as littering and dog fouling

- checking out abandoned vehicles

- gathering evidence through observation

- helping with missing persons enquiries

- speaking to young people who might be drunk and causing problems, confiscating alcohol and tobacco, if necessary

- crowd control and directing traffic at public events

- helping direct traffic at road blocks or scenes of accidents

- assisting police with recording names and addresses or door-to-door enquiries.

PCSOs spend most of their time out on patrol, usually on foot or possibly also on a bicycle. They work in pairs or small teams, and in liaison with their police officer colleagues. In some forces they team up with police officers, managed by a police sergeant. They do not have the same powers of arrest as police officers, although they do have the right to detain suspected offenders for up to thirty minutes until a police officer arrives.

If you are applying to join the force as a PCSO, or you are already an existing Police Community support Officer then this comprehensive guide is an essential resource for helping you perform your role both safely and competently. From the powers of a PCSO through to foot patrols and gathering witness statements the 'Practical Skills for Police Community Support Officers' is an outstanding research tool.

'PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR POLICE COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICERS'

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