PCSO's blog

8 January 2009
Our plain-clothes 'Officer Darvill' innocuously approaches a Community Protection Officer in Nottingham City centre to ask for directions to the doctors surgery...


The CPO directs them to the number 41 bus. "Self medication is always a cheaper option" he adds.

By way of interest, Officer Darvill asks about the difference in job description between a PCSO and a CPO...

7 January 2009

6 January 2009
We now have our own 'Sousveillance Officers' out on foot calling in and filing reports. To date we have officers on patrol with recording devices in Sneinton, St Anns, The Meadows, Mapperley Park, Sherwood.




The mobile unit is currently being prepared to be placed in hotspots around the city.

PCSO Watch dates from Oct 2007, when the founding member of the  
Office of Community Sousveillance was fined £30 by a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO), for cycling over the pavement to a cycle stand in Nottingham City Centre.