{"id":18174,"date":"2019-06-04T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18174"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","slug":"pcsos-cuts-threat-south-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18174","title":{"rendered":"PCSO cuts threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The reduction in the number of police community support officers (PCSOs) in South Yorkshire is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098detrimental to the overall good policing across the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (June 4).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>South Yorkshire Police announced today that it was increasing the number of police officers by 73, but it intended cutting the number of PCSOs by 101, or 78, if current vacancies are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which has 28 PCSO members, said that its members would lose up to \u00c2\u01412,500 a year because of the change in shift patterns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe welcome the increase in the number of police officers, but it should not be at the expense of the PCSOs who do valuable and vital work in communities underpinning the police service,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Shane Sweeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPCSOs are particularly needed at key times when anti-social behaviour occurs, such as late evenings and weekends \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that is a very good reason why their numbers should not be cut,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOverall, we think today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision is detrimental to good policing across South Yorkshire \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there needs to be a balance between the police with warranted powers of arrest and the important community work that the PCSOs do on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be seeking an urgent meeting with the South Yorkshire Police about the future role, pay and employment conditions of our members, particularly the loss of up to \u00c2\u01412,500 a year due to changes in shift patterns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will also ensure that there will be no compulsory redundancies among the remaining PCSOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reduction in the number of police community support officers (PCSOs) in South Yorkshire is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098detrimental to the overall good policing across the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (June 4). &nbsp; South Yorkshire Police announced today that it was increasing the number of police officers by 73, but it intended cutting the number of PCSOs by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Cuts to PCSOs will be \u00e2\u20ac\u0098detrimental\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to policing in South Yorkshire","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25236,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions\/25236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}