Campaign to recruit CPOs from unemployed

[tzlr_17]

I have been told this is a Nation-wide, 'from the top' drive to employ massive numbers of auxiliary (unpaid, volunteer) CPOs (pretend police with very few actual powers, employed by the council), primarily from the unemployed thousands.

They can only work 15 hours per week, so they keep their benefits.

Nottingham City Council has chosen a local boxer to champion the scheme, which will apparently

"...help prepare them for the modern economy"

I would like to know if anyone has heard of a similar scheme in their area, as I have been lead to believe this is being done nation-wide

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/onenottingham/index.aspx?articleid=6824

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Froch-launches-community-protection-scheme/article-1285859-detail/article.html

A blog entry about the campaign:

http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/754/

View one of the actual adverts here:

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=12035&p=0

Now most of the blogs concerning this are simply moaning about the £32,000 they're paying froch for promotions, voice-overs etc, but is it just me who questions the reasons for using who is essentially a paid thug to publicise/promote this campaign - remember they are targeting a very specific group of people here...

Sorry if this is in the wrong section - it's not quite 'today's news, but ongoing...

[kallista]

You should think about sending this to Alan Watt at cuttingthroughthematrix.com

[bobbydiva]

Ahhh f-off
I hate all this stuff.

My town recently somehow recrutied little kids (like 7 years old) to join PCSO's and sent them out checking peoples rubbish bags, looking out for speeders and questionable behavior!!!

[tzlr_17]

You should think about sending this to Alan Watt at cuttingthroughthematrix.com

Cool. I just checked his site. That's the best goddamn logo I ever saw :D

Ahhh f-off
I hate all this stuff.

My town recently somehow recrutied little kids (like 7 years old) to join PCSO's and sent them out checking peoples rubbish bags, looking out for speeders and questionable behavior!!!

Yup, sounds about right, I heard about this kind of activity a while back - seems to be a recurring theme here :(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2689996/Children-aged-eight-enlisted-as-council-snoopers.html

[redpill41]

its all so easy to see through now. everyone becomes an agent

[grannymoose]

jesus christ what next i wonder :eek:

[godspeed]

new informers for the swine flu chaos no doubt.......council thugs

i had a visit from 2 plod at 11.15pm saying they want to know

were my dad was.....i sent them packing saying so do i at this time.......

they wanted to come in and question me....i said no....i think they'll be back.....

stand up for all you got left good people....its not a game.......know your right(s)

[godspeed]

ps anyone here from nottingham.....do you need to protect nottingham from something ....he will pound your streets for £1000 an hour but the rest are unpaid slaves...how ironic is this....i will have a look to see if there's anything like this in my area....although recently all ive noticed going on are empty streets with no life in them...:eek: