Pcso london met

That will depend on your people skills. This role is all about talking to the public, building bridges and winning the trust of communities. You care about others and want to see them safe and well. With excellent training and great benefits, this is a highly rewarding role.

Join us and see the impact you can make as a PCSO. Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 1st October. Until a few years ago there were three PCSOs in every ward in every borough in London, but that was reduced in a shake-up of neighbourhood policing initiated by Sir Bernard.

Labour London Assembly member Joanne McCartney said: "Axing all of London's PCSOs would be the final nail in the coffin for neighbourhood policing and mean far fewer officers on the beat in our communities acting as the eyes and ears of the Met.

Stephen Greenhalgh, deputy mayor for policing and crime, said no decision had been made, but he suggested losing all neighbourhood PCSOs would be a step too far. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "We don't believe this is in the best interests of Londoners and we are calling on the Met to halt the plans and allow for proper negotiations around the alternatives. Source: Met Police. But more troubling for the new Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson who last week declared the force's racist past was behind it, are the repeated claims from Saeed and his colleagues that when senior officers were told, they tried to silence the whistle blowers.

One ethnic minority officer told of the culture of fear at Belgravia station which was incited by a white boss. PCSO Peter Campbell said an inspector at the station drew up a hit list of black officers to be got rid of, and shared the list with white officers. Things were so bad at the station that white officers rode in a separate van to ethnic minority colleagues, barring entry to any black officer who tried to get in, and refused requests to pick them up.

In June a white PCSO is alleged to have reported racist remarks by Whitehead to senior management, but no action was taken. The canteen and television rooms were also subject to "apartheid" with white officers and their black colleagues sitting separately.

Campbell also alleged that at times black officers were "treated like dogs" and that senior officers played a racist game called "spot the PCSO". The horrifying video was shared on social media after appearing to have been circulated via Snapchat.

Users branded the clip "absolutely disgusting" and expressed their concern for the PCSO. A Met Police spokesman said: "Two boys and, both 14, have been charged with assault on an emergency worker following an incident in Brent.

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