Anon

Below is the account of something so remarkably inappropriate that happened to me with a PCSO police officer, that I have pasted the email I sent to his superior officer:

Dear Sergeant,

I’m writing regarding an upsetting incident which took place this morning with one of your PCSO officers.

The PCSO knocked on my door, to which I answered in my pyjamas and hoodie as I could see it was a member of the constabulary, who would most likely be looking for information regarding a burglary which happened in the neighbourhood.

When I answered the door, the first thing the PCSO said to me was ‘Hello good looking’. Firstly, that is extremely inappropriate, regardless of my age as a woman. Secondly, it is important to clarify that I am a 23-year-old young woman in her own house and in her pyjamas. I was incredibly shocked and upset to be greeted this way by a police officer. I told the officer ‘That’s an incredibly unprofessional thing to say – particularly to a young woman’.

He responded that he addressed me that way to relax me. My dad also came to the door and said he did not appreciate him speaking to me in that way – a way which is not only incredibly sexist but left me feeling very uncomfortable and upset.

The response to your PCSO from this was absolutely unfathomable. He said ‘I’m sorry, I thought she was a child’. To which my dad replied “That’s even worse that you would address someone you thought was a child, in that way, on her own, in her pyjamas.”

I am seriously shocked by this incident and while the PCSO apologised, it is absolutely not on and I would feel incredibly uncomfortable speaking to the officer again. He is clearly in need of some serious re-training, particularly regarding chatting up girls he thinks are minors in their pyjamas.

Yours disappointedly,

Anon