http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2180111,00.html
Kathleen Nutt
NEIGHBOURHOOD wardens are to be given greater powers and a new police rank of assistant constable created under Labour plans to put more officers on the streets to tackle serious crime. The wardens, who already issue on-the-spot fines for petty offences such as dog-fouling and fly-tipping, would be given the power to issue formal police cautions and to move drunks off the streets. Assistant constables would focus on paperwork and petty offences, freeing up regular police officers to tackle serious crime.
