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Well, there's a lot less money at the moment due to constant cuts so some hard decisions have to be made, only time will tell if the right ones are made. I do wonder if there are any right decisions though with the small amount of funding police services are getting. Will they be able to do the job effectively at this point, we shall see if it's possible.
Last month Norfolk Police announced plans to axe all 150 of its PCSOs. In response to a question about keeping them on if they agreed to take pay cuts he said: “If I had all the money in the world I would not hire more PCSOs.” He added: “We need more officers who can investigate, who can be moved around the county, who can be called on at short notice when duty demands. “And PCSOs, as valuable as they have been, don’t offer the flexibility and skills necessary to deal with 21s”.
Well most of the publishers tend to play it safe and offer us the same thing over and over which often works out for them as many are creatures of habit. Independent developers tend to create games that are a lot more original and 'risky'. So for those who are bored of the same old thing and want something new, this is a good place to look and some of them have been very successful with this.
I've been playing a game called Telltale that looks like it was designed for the Commodore 64. Graphics are not the strong point but it is a lot of fun. Interesting to see what developers create when they are independent and don't go through publishers.
Quite unusual to hear of wasting police time tickets being issued in the Met, I hear they get issued a lot in the US. Not sure what the rarest one is I've given out is, someone theatened me with violence once so he got a PND from me for that.
At age 60, just decided to leave my role as a PCSO, and tendered my resignation, any suggestions on possible alternative employment would be appreciated. I realise the career opportunities will be fewer based on age factor, just wondering if our job with all its variants and skills is regarded as having some merit for would be potential employers. Thanks.
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wow what do you think about Norfolk?
sharp this morning! there are all kinds of tickets PCSOs can issue I jest of course.
yeah a good pal of mine left the mET and did just that
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