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Police Community Support Officers: Long Service Awards

Asked by Adam DanceLiberal DemocratHome OfficeTabled Answered 30 April 2025UIN 47983

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding twenty years' service medals for Police Community Support Officers as recognition of their service to their community.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

The Home Office will consider any proposal for national long service recognition for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). It is only right that we recognise the commitment shown by PCSOs across the country and whose role are undeniably at the sharp end of policing, diffusing community tensions and providing visible policing presence in our communities.

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