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Councillor's rallying call to save PCSO roles
The Chester Chronicle
|December 04, 2025
A COST-CUTTING proposal by Cheshire Police to axe up to 60 PCSO roles would be a “false economy” and “a mistake we cannot afford to make’, a councillor has said.
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Cllr. Julie Smith
Cllr Julie Smith (Handforth, non-grouped) has written to her fellow 81 councillors on Cheshire East urging them to fight to keep their PCSOs (police community support officers) in the borough’s towns and villages.
Her rallying call comes as the force launched an internal consultation to save £13m over the next four years through reducing PCSOs and redistributing warranted police officers into neighbourhood policing teams.
Cllr Smith said: “PCSOs are the eyes and ears of our communities.
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