I would make a complaint to the Independent Police Complaints CommissionThe IPCC will simply refer this complaint to the local force . Police officers even pretend ones such as PCSOsThe PCSO role is totally separate from the role of a police officer they ' re uniformed civilian staff . Calling them pretend police officers shows a total misunderstanding of their actual role and use . cannot search you unless they have reasonable grounds to do soA police officer needs reasonable grounds to suspect possession of drugs to search under s . 23 Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . PCSOs have no legal power to search for drugs , so they can ' t search for drugs at all . This is why I don ' t completely believe OP ' s account that he gets searched by this PCSO .