Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 3:05 pm on 13 June 2018.
Absolutely. Presiding Officer, it's a fantastic project that has been run in Newport there, and I think it's a testament to the creativity of the police force, working with different organisations in the city, to deliver exactly that sort of process. I pay tribute to Gwent Police in the way that they've worked to deliver this. As well meeting the commissioner for south Wales, I met the commissioner for Gwent twice in the last week as well, once in my constituency and once here. The conversations we have are very positive conversations about how we can ensure that the work of the police is integrated into the work of other services, delivering in exactly the way that the Member for Newport West suggests. I would very much like to pay tribute to the work of Gwent Police—the inventiveness, the creativity—but also an approach that embeds the concept of the active citizenship that we were discussing before, and a sense of citizenship and a sense of people in our communities able to take action themselves to improve and to benefit people who live within those communities. It's exactly the sort of initiative that we want to support and sustain into the future.