Just Stop Oil protester from Banbury guilty of disrupting traffic thisisoxfordshire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisisoxfordshire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Seattle community service officers to help with service-related calls, freeing up cops
(KIRO Radio, Matt Pitman)
There’s been much talk about reforms at the Seattle Police Department, and one of those changes is the idea of using community service officers (CSOs). These officers are civilians and are not armed, and are meant to handle specific types of calls. What does the SPD hope to achieve with CSOs? Sergeant Kevin Nelson joined KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula Show to discuss.
“The program went away in about 2004 because of a funding issue,” Nelson said. “So it was a very popular program back at that time. It was strongly supported by the community and the department. Officers really relied on the CSOs at that point in time to do some work to kind of supplement some of the field work that was actually happening back at that time.”