We shall see about that once they’ve got settled into their jobs, won’t we? The previous four somewhat modified their views on this.

Labour’s call for devolution of policing, backed by the separatists, would actually deliver the opposite of real devolution. The First Minister refers to the proposed devolution of policing to the future mayor of Manchester as a model for Wales, but of course those are only the powers of police and crime commissioners, and we already have devolution to them in Wales. What the First Minister is therefore actually talking about is taking yet more power from the regions of Wales and centralising those powers in Cardiff, giving themselves control over the appointment of chief constables, the suspension of chief constables, calling on chief constables to retire or resign, setting out five-year police and crime plans, and setting the annual precepts and force budgets. That’s not something I consider an attractive proposition for the Welsh Government, given that Labour’s creeping and often intimidatory politicisation of devolved public services is damning, and the risk of this infecting policing is too great.

Plaid Cymru’s dedication to the devolution of policing provides further evidence that their ideological goal—the destruction of a United Kingdom and division of its peoples—takes priority over the needs of the people across Wales, most of whom live in cross-border crime regions.