Check out this report in Beds on Sunday online for information on Bedfordshire Police's new budget which Police and Crime Commissioner Ollie Martins says will protect our frontline PCSOs. That's police community support officers who are what you see on the streets, in the schools and in the shops these days. They are the new front line.
I'll be joining other town and parish councillors on 21 Feb to hear Ollie Martins outline his vision for the future. I'm hoping the new budget means we can step back from suggestions of parishes "funding" a PCSO as I've never been convinced that will work. The price of retaining PCSOs, who used to be centrally funded, is an increase in the police precept bringing in an extra half million pounds in revenue.
This money will be used out there, on the streets and in the community and sounds a bargain.
I'll be joining other town and parish councillors on 21 Feb to hear Ollie Martins outline his vision for the future. I'm hoping the new budget means we can step back from suggestions of parishes "funding" a PCSO as I've never been convinced that will work. The price of retaining PCSOs, who used to be centrally funded, is an increase in the police precept bringing in an extra half million pounds in revenue.
This money will be used out there, on the streets and in the community and sounds a bargain.
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