Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: TDW on November 24, 2006, 05:36:16 pm
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While working yesterday in Uxbridge I had a PSO stop me and say "Do you realise there is a hosepipe ban? Can I have your name and address please?
I said to her you need to get your facts straight. Firstly, I'm commercial. Secondly my hose is not attached to a tap and thirdly I dont live in this area and dont get my water from around here.
Also what made it even more irritating was it was chucking it down with rain like it had most of the week.
She said I still need to take your name and address.
I just said to her "sorry I 've done nothing illegal and go and annoy someone else" and drove off.
She just wound me up!
TDW
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Whats a PSO ?
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Good for you TDW, these jobsworths need their pencils inserted where the sun don't shine >:(
And also good for you that you knew the true state of play regarding the hosepipe ban and how it affects (or actually doesn't) us window cleaners.
But, um....What the heck is a PSO??
Ian
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please slip over
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hi guys
police support officer ! i think they are the ones that couldnt make it as police ?? not sure ;D
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AHHH, of course...berks..well meaning but useless and virtually powerless, and that one plainly doesn't know her arse from her elbow.
Now we have had PSO Police Support Officer) cleared up, any further discussions on their merits and powers needs to be in the chat section!
But on the question of the hosepipe ban...knock yourselves out!
And talking of which...
Just who is it that actually does have the power to tick you off?
Is it the police?
Or the water Authourities?
Council officials maybe?
All three?
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good to see she was consentrating or the real crime issues of the area more taxpayers money well spent
grant
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I think their called CSOs (Community Support Officers), not PSOs.
They're also known as 'Blunkett's Bobbies', but all I see them do is check tax discs in our local car parks.
Waste of space; government tax revenue collectors.
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I think their called CSOs (Community Support Officers), not PSOs.
They're also known as 'Blunkett's Bobbies', but all I see them do is check tax discs in our local car parks.
Waste of space; government tax revenue collectors.
Beat me to it Tosh.
That's exactly what I was just typing... ;D
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Police support officers I thought.(could be cso)
She didn't know what she was doing. Her male college just chipped in with "Is that a pressure washer?"
Why he would ask that I dont know.
Wandering around just looking for something to do. Total waste of time and when I told her to go and annoy someone else she had the cheek to tell me to get a life.
TDW
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Wandering around just looking for something to do. Total waste of time and when I told her to go and annoy someone else she had the cheek to tell me to get a life.
She obviously prefers Trad. ;D
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I should of 'accidently' soaked her and said 'very sorry officer'
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We have a really nice one, I think she should have been a social worker. She keeps her eye on the kids playing in the park, a great comfort these days. A really nice truly genuine person. . Dai
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CSO's have the same right's as police i think! Well that's what i think anyway! Someone said they can make an arrest! Just as a normal cop can!
Hope that Helps!
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When I first started WFP I was doing a big place in town. One of our CSO's walked past and said
"Ooo, I like your big pole! Do you need a licence for that!"
Quick as a flash, I replied "No, and your not gonna get your hands on MY big pole!!!"
We had a laugh and yes she did get a bit wet from the drips!!!
David
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As an ex cop no they don't have the same rights as the police.
They are there as a deterent to look like Police.
they only have the same arrest rights as any member of the public, which is limited to arrestable offences. Do you know what they are?
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As an ex cop no they don't have the same rights as the police.
They are there as a deterent to look like Police.
they only have the same arrest rights as any member of the public, which is limited to arrestable offences. Do you know what they are?
Any person who is in the process of committing an offence.
Any person the arrestor has reasonable grounds for suspecting is in the process of committing an offence.
Any person who is guilty of an offence previously committed.
Any person the arrestor has reasonable grounds for suspecting has committed an offence previously.
and
It is not reasonably practicable for a constable to make the arrest instead
and to prevent one of the following
The person causing physical injury to himself or others
The person causing loss of or damage to property
The person making off before a constable can assume responsibility for him.
These powers are rather risky to use, since it relies upon the person carrying out the arrest knowing that an indictable or either way offence has been committed — if, for example, the person they arrest is later acquitted in court, then no offence has been committed, and so the arrest was unlawful. In addition to the above, a private person may be authorised to execute an arrest warrant, if the court issuing the warrant has given them the authority to do so, and any person may arrest someone who is "unlawfully at large" (for example, an escaped prisoner).
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hi guys
police support officer ! i think they are the ones that couldnt make it as police ?? not sure ;D
Aaah. The wanabeees? They're usually far worse than the ones who make it.
It might have been better to string her along and watch her get humiliated but no, I don't have much time for jumped up beaurocrats either.
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CSO's have the same right's as police i think! Well that's what i think anyway! Someone said they can make an arrest! Just as a normal cop can!
Hope that Helps!
Sorry I must be getting mixed up with Special Constables!
;)
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what a funny thread
people complain and whinge about CSO's
BUT
the same people complain about not enough "bobbies on the beat"
if you think about it, CSO's are a visual deterant, they are like the old bobbies on the beat (who solved little crime), they are part of the community policing
i think they do a good job, the more the merrier