Criminal Law

Police Community Support Officers: Cultures and Identities within Pluralised Policing

By Megan O'Neill
Oxford University Press April 2019

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ISBN-13
9780198803676
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
April 2019
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Police Community Support Officers: Cultures and Identities within Pluralised Policing presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) since the creation of the role in 2002. Situated within the tradition of police ethnographies, this text examines the working worlds of uniformed patrol support staff in two English police forces. Based on over 350 hours of direct observation and 33 interviews with PCSOs and police constables in both urban and rural contexts, Police Community Support Officers offers a detailed analysis of the operational and cultural realities of pluralised policing from within.

Using a dramaturgic framework, the author finds that PCSOs have been undermined by their own organisations from the beginning, which has left a lasting legacy in terms of their relationships and interactions with police officer colleagues. The implications of this for police cultures, community policing approaches and the success of pluralisation are examined. The author argues that while PCSOs can have similar occupational experiences to constables, their particular circumstances have led to a unique occupational culture, one which has implications for existing police culture theories. The book considers these findings in light of budget reductions and police reforms occurring across the sector, processes in which PCSOs are particularly vulnerable.

Table of Contents

Context
1: The widening police family, community policing and police culture
2: Researching PCSOs in England and Wales
The PCSO
3: What do PCSOs do?
4: Becoming a PCSO and being institutionally undermined
5: Police family dynamics
Analysis
6: PCSO culture in a pluralised field
7: The culture of contemporary community and plural policing
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