Question follow-through · 47983
Police Community Support Officers: Long Service Awards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding twenty years' service medals for Police Community Support Officers as recognition of their service to their community.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding twenty years' service medals for Police Community Support Officers as recognition of their service to their community.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office will consider any proposal for national long service recognition for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). It is only right that we recognise the commitment shown by PCSOs across the country and whose role are undeniably at the sharp ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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