Plans to cut 32 police community support officer (PCSO) posts could be dropped, Bristol's mayor says.
Conservative candidate Adrian Blackshaw said, if he was elected, he would ensure the PCSO budget was "ring-fenced".
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Tributes have been paid to the police community support officer (PCSO) who died in a crash in Norfolk.
He was a PCSO in Bromley when he committed some of the offences.
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The Home Office announced in November it will now only fund 16, 000 PCSO posts nationally, rather than the originally-planned 24, 000.
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He also confirmed the PCSO is currently employed by another police force.
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Fixed penalty notices can be issued by a PCSO to people who cycle on a footpath, litter or commit offences under dog control orders.
No qualifications are needed to become a PCSO - although applicants English should be "proficient" - and prospective officers may have to pass a fitness test.
He acknowledged that savings targets made it challenging to put more police on the streets and PCSO vacancies had been frozen until the appointment of a PCC.
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Police said his actions produced a "large wall of water, approximately six feet (1.8m) high, showering and completely covering" the officer, named on court papers as "PCSO Moore".
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Intending to "spin people out" - or worry them - Cook pointed the BB gun at a member of the public, who reported it to the PCSO, the court heard.
Anyone with information is asked to contact PCSO Sabrina Illman-Edwards in Kinmel Bay or PCSO James Lloyd in Towyn on 101 or alternatively contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
"This has given me an insight into frontline policing on our streets and made me realise how dedicated and hard working police officers, PCSO's and police staff are, " the father-of-two said.
He joined Devon and Cornwall Police as a PCSO in August 2003, seven years after he left Hampshire Police, where he was employed as a constable but failed to complete his probationary period.
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