A police community support officer has been praised by a North Laine resident for helping her get a quiet night’s sleep.
Writing on the North Laine Community Association website, Anne Powell says she was at her wit’s end thanks to “cheerful (yes, a euphemism) folk” kicking up a racket when leaving pubs in Cheltenham Place in the early hours.
After a piece in the association’s newsletter, The Runner, published the police’s non-emergency number (0845 60 70 999), PCSO John Sharman came to see her, and after words with the bars, the noise stopped.
Ms Powell said: “Four weeks on, it all started up again. I rang again: PCSO Sharman contacted me again, saying that he would do the rounds, but it would be all too likely to kick off again and I should phone if necessary.
“It is interesting to see from my records that four weeks is regularly the interval before I need to contact the police.
“But I am happy to keep calling – I am just so impressed with what PCSO Sharman has achieved. I should like his superiors to know what remarkable success he has had in dealing with a problem which has been causing me a lot of distress and which I thought was insoluble. He is to be mightily commended.”
She added: “I should still like to see the [24-hour drinking] Act repealed.”
A small but very important point – PCSO Sharman does not have ‘superiors’, he has senior officers or managers.
The fact that someone is a lower ranking member of a ‘disciplined’ organisation does not mean they are inferior, which is inferred by the use of such anachronistic terms as ‘superiors’.