From The Metro:
'Bored' community officers turning to crime
Police community support officers in Britain's largest force keep getting into trouble because they are bored and unmotivated, a report said. Senior officers at Scotland Yard agreed to review the civilian role after they found a disproportionate number of staff were being disciplined.
They discovered police community support officers (PCSOs) accounted for more than half of all police staff gross misconduct cases during the last financial year despite only making up about one-fifth of the workforce.
In more than half of cases, employees were sacked or reprimanded for criminal offences, including drinking and driving and other motoring crimes. Other PCSOs were disciplined after they were caught misusing police computers, behaving inappropriately and in one case, making a false allegation...
Thursday 5 February 2009
I bet nobody saw this one coming ...
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Doesn't that say something about the quality of the people they were employing, rather than the quality of the job itself?
Not really, the job defines the person as much as the other way round.
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