A NEW community support officer has started work at Rubery Police Station.

CSO Sarah Wells has previous experience working with the public, having spent the last seven years as a customer service advisor for a local manufacturer, before that working as a hotel receptionist.

CSO Wells’ new role is the next step to her fulfilling a long-held ambition to become a full time police officer, having already served four years as a volunteer special constable.

She has already taken up the role as a CSO and has so far been involved in seizing drugs and confiscating alcohol from under-age drinkers, given stranger danger talks to nursery children, and liased with residents about the theft of and damage to drain covers at the Chadwick House flats in Rubery.

CSO Wells said: “I love the variety of this job and every day brings something different.”

Outside of work the new CSO has a passion for running, and is a member of the Droitwich Ladies Running Club.