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Every Two weeks we will publish an EXCLUSIVE Interview with those who work with WERA and manage services to the estate and Lambeth. We will ask the questions that you may well of always wanted to ask whether they be at the Housing, in politics or the police as well as many more...
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Can you please tell us who you are and what your position is?
My name is Karen Rose
and I am a Police Community Support Office (PCSO) for Thornton Ward Safer Neighbourhood
Team.
I am also the Liaison Officer for Weir Estate.
How long have you been doing
this job?
I have now been employed by the Metropolitan Police Service as a PCSO
since February 2008.
What aspect of your role do you most enjoy?
The aspects of my role I most enjoy is
representing the Metropolitan Police, engaging with the community, learning about
different cultures, and working with other partnerships, solving problems and making
the community feel like it’s a safer place to live.
If you could change one thing about this country what would it be?
Tougher laws,
and jail sentences to deter people from committing crime.
What motivates you day to day to do your job?
My motivation in my job is the challenges,
to reduce crime, dealing with concerns and issues and trying to come to solve problems
and having a satisfactory conclusion.
What does community mean to you?
Community means to me getting to know people, how
each individual lives differently, getting to know their concerns, it means involvement
and aspirations.
Do you think you job makes a difference to our community?
I think my job makes a
difference to our community because it makes people feel like it’s a safer place
to live, they are able to come forth and speak and trust us, and we are recognised
out there in full uniform.
If you had the power to change the law, what new law would you bring in?
If I had
the power to change the law it would be raising the legal age of drinking to 21 years
old to reduce the number of Anti-
Do you think Britain is getting better or worse and why?
I think Britain is getting
worse considering 25 years ago I didn’t hear of such crimes that are going on today,
there is lack of respect to society in general.
Who would you most like to meet?
I would most like to meet the Queen.
What do you most like to see in a community?
The most I’d like to see in the community
is peace. I would also like to see different communities engaging with each other
and understanding each others.
Does your role encourage you to work with a wide range of people?
Yes
Who would be your ideal 'Come Dine With Me' Dinner guests?
My ideal ' come dine with
me ' dinner guests would be, French and Saunders, Davina McCall, Ellen Degeneres.
How many people are in your team (including yourself)?
There are seven in the team.
(One Sergeant, 2 Police Constable’s, 4 Police Community Support Officer’s)
What could
you most not leave home without?
I couldn’t leave my home without my phone.
What
makes you happy?
Coming to work and serving my community makes me happy.
How would you describe the youth of today?
The youth of today I think are bored and
misunderstood and need something to focus on and motivate them.
Do you speak any
foreign languages, if so what languages do you speak?
No.
What aspect of your job would you most like to change?
I would most like to give
more powers to PCSO to enforce the law more efficiently.
When and how should residents contact you, and/or your team?
If residents would like
to contact us they can call us on 020 8721 2622 or 07920 233 840, email us at Thornton.snt@met.police.uk
or stop us whilst we are out on patrol. Alternatively you could come into the police
station at any time.
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