PCSOs aka Plastic Coppers or Hobby Bobbies are untrained and ill equipped pseudo police withabout as much legal power as a street warden. They are there to make up numbers as real coppers numbers are reduced and the law abiding among us are left to the nefarious whims of the criminals eg 2011. PCSOs, I have heard tel,l are made up of failed police recruits, frustrated NEDS, thugs, pensioners, and ex-Olympic 'Game Makers'.