The second, even longer story, informed us that the number of new Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in the county had risen threefold in a year and was now at 166, each costing a minimum of 17,000 a year.
"Isn't that curious?", I thought. There is not a big spread telling us how effective more work with young people has been but here we are seeing yet again attention lavished on the policing end of life. Local news stories in both print and TV focus relentlessly on crime and often lead the regional TV news to the detriment of industry, education or culture.
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