Communities have been left with one police support officer for every 6,816 people after devastating Tory cuts since 2010, shock figures have revealed.
A decade of vicious Conservative austerity has halved PCSO levels, with increasing numbers of the public saying they never see officers on patrol.
In March 2010, just before the Tories returned to power, there were 16,918 PCSOs on the beat - one for every 3,292 people.
