Police elections: Welsh Liberal Democrats’ community focus call

There are four PCCs in Wales – one for each police force area – Dyfed Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales.

Lib Dem candidates, as is the case with the other three main parties in Wales, are standing for all four posts.

Ms Dodds also told Radio Wales Breakfast that police needed to respond better to cases of stalking, which “can lead on to further violence, and we want to see better responses on domestic violence as well”.

Marking Stalking Awareness Week in the Senedd, this week, she said “effective multi-agency co-ordination and investment in comprehensive training for police, prosecutors and judges” was needed to “finally deliver justice for victims”.

Earlier this month, UK Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called for Police and Crime Commissioners to be scrapped, external, and the money saved put into “improving frontline policing”.

Ms Dodds, a Senedd member for Mid and West Wales, would not be drawn on that policy in her radio interview, but said her party was “concerned” about what PCCs do in their role.

Once elected commissioners should not be appointing non-elected deputies at public expense, she said, “we want to see that slimmed-down version” of PCCs.

Labour currently hold three of Wales’ four commissioner posts and there is a Plaid Cymru PCC in Dyfed Powys.