Very disappointed and extremely angry that we are losing another PCSO in Nuneaton East. We are getting more housing and with it more issues with crime and Anti Social Behaviour. @warkspolice please do not keep doing this. @ClaireH_NN

I have been told we will at some point get another new PCSO who is currently in training. The massive churn and long gaps in cover is not helpful.

PCSO’s are quite pointless to be honest. And Warwickshire Police policy allowing them to drive vehicles or be driven around defeats the objective of the limited role. They should be walking the beat and using public transport to get to their neighbourhoods. Ive lost count of how many I’ve seen driving or sitting in cars just on their phones, heads down not even observing. They are intelligence gathers effectively and you cant do that sitting in a car or not walking the area. Ive seen one PCSO walking Milby in the last 3-4 years I would say. The role should be scrapped and more Police Constables employed who can enforce the law. Overall Neighbourhood policing in our town has failed, huge extractions to backfill response team or deployed elsewhere where in the county. Zero pressure from cllrs to hold WP to account, you have offered excuses for a long time to them. Why the sudden change, was it purely to try and gain votes to make out you were listening to residents? You have said nothing on the plague of crime in the town centre for years and then two weeks before an election you push for FOI’s and claim to be holding them to account after giving them excuses for months. Your timeline of posts reveal this.