despite their common presence in real life. Paul Abbott's long-running drama series Shameless occasionally features police community support officers, for example, in Series 8 Episode 19, a PCSO is seen getting out of a police vehicle and chasing Aidan Croker. Hollyoaks the long-running British television soap opera, on Channel 4 featured for many years Carmel McQueen played by Gemma Merna who was portrayed as being a PCSO between 2009 and 2010. PCSOs have also featured in a few comedy sketch programmes including Season 3, Episode 1 of That Mitchell and Webb Look. PCSOs were featured in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom by Dave Lamb Hobby Bobbies. In 2009 the long running children's British comedy television series ChuckleVision featured PCSOs in Season 21, Episode 2 "Top of the Cops" where the shows main characters the Chuckle Brothers Paul & Barry Chuckle are depicted as PCSOs fresh out of training sent out on patrol for the first time. In 2015, a PCSO is shown guarding a crime scene on No Offence, episode 6, where he has a brief conversation with a Detective Inspector and Detective Constable. In 2016, season 2 of the BBC series Happy Valley featured Ann Gallagher, played by Charlie Murphy, becoming a PCSO following the events of her kidnapping in the first season. In fiction, PCSOs are often depicted as somewhat laughable – for instance, the That Mitchell and Webb Look sketches, a PCSO is teased by a police officer who clearly despises him, and in the ChuckleVision episode the portrayal of PCSOs is kindly but unflattering. See also UK police ranks Police Reform Act 2002 References Law enforcement occupations in the United Kingdom