Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Simon Hull and was first published in January 2024..

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Images

Course image: blue light images / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 1: PCSO ’s: © Courtesy of Humberside Police.

Figure 2: West Midlands Policed/flickr.com. https://flickr.com/photos/westmidlandspolice/9686673676 .https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Figure 3: Chris Bull/Alamy

Figure 4: TravelibUK/Alamy

Figure 5: Stephen Barnes/Law and Order/Alamy

PCSO specific powers interactive

Card 1: PA Images/Alamy

Card 2: Anton Samsonov/Dreamstime

Card 3: Luis Angel Garcia Carretero/123rf.com

Card 4: Lenscap67/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus

Card 5: Maxim Evdokimov/Dreamstime

Card 6: Geoff Smith/Alamy

Card 7: Janine Wiedel Photography/Alamy

Card 8: David Fairclough/Getty Images

Card 9: Ianni Dimitrov Pictures/Alamy

PCSO traffic related powers interactive

Card 1: Car 1, top left, TravelibUK / Alamy; Car 2, top right, Joe Clemson / Shutterstock; Car 3, bottom, Joelindsay/iStock/Getty

Card 2: Keith Morris/Alamy

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