Plastic policemen

Joining the laughing policeman and the sleeping policeman in an inner city estate this October.

Mr Blunkett will announce there were a record 139,728 police officers by the end of August in England and Wales, up 10,000 on two years ago.

But he is particularly pushing up the political agenda the CSOs [community support officers], who do not have powers of arrest but can detain people for up to half an hour.